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Bite My Shiny IRC

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 24 2014, @01:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the ancient-but-useful-technology dept.

What is IRC? It stands for internet relay chat, and despite being developed in 1988, it is still a very useful means of low-bandwidth communication, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily across the world. We have created our own IRC Server at irc.sylnt.us, port 6667. Won't you join us?

Barrabas writes:

"Some have asked why we run our own servers instead of using a public one such as freenode.net. We did this to have control of the TOS, copyright, DMCA, and other legal issues. I like freenode (and their TOS) a lot, but we're building a community and we should make our own choices.

Landon, our overlord of IRC, set this up with a lot of help from his team. He also set us up a link-shortener sylnt.us domain for the Twitter account: that rocks! So send him some love if you see him on IRC - he's doing a bang-up job!

Speaking of Twitter, Bender, our IRC bot, posts the headlines to our Twitter account, so feel free to follow us there."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by jt on Monday February 24 2014, @02:01AM

    by jt (2890) on Monday February 24 2014, @02:01AM (#5439)

    IRC still works great for me, as it has done since the 1990s. These days I have to explain IRC to the non-initiates in terms of Twitter and SMS analogies, but maybe the time is right for an IRC renaissance; even 'real people' are getting comfortable with text-only comms.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by clone141166 on Monday February 24 2014, @03:46AM

    by clone141166 (59) on Monday February 24 2014, @03:46AM (#5502)

    How do I post status updates to my wall/timeline though? Also how come ChanServ has so many friends - is he some kind of stalker?

  • (Score: 1) by hatta on Monday February 24 2014, @07:26PM

    by hatta (879) on Monday February 24 2014, @07:26PM (#6082)

    I'm glad to see this happening. My regular IRC channel has recently become unsatisfactory, so I'm moving on after 15 years. Hope you guys like dick jokes.