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?
"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."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Natales on Monday February 24 2014, @05:03AM
Look, the genie is out of the bottle. We, this "fuzzy" community, represent a very specific segment of the nerd/geek population at large, and *we* are here to stay. Even if the site fails, we will rebuild. Besides, don't underestimate the level of collective intelligence and will of this community (or money for that matter). The title of this site is spot on: it's people, and we have power.