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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: 3, Interesting) by mmcmonster on Monday February 24 2014, @02:56PM

    by mmcmonster (401) on Monday February 24 2014, @02:56PM (#5833)

    Any chance of getting the site headlines mirrored on Google+ like /. does? It's convenient for some of us (or maybe just me?) to find out when a new headline is available by just following you there.

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  • (Score: 1) by Landon on Monday February 24 2014, @03:08PM

    by Landon (45) on Monday February 24 2014, @03:08PM (#5849) Journal

    I'll poke into this, maybe I can reuse the code that makes the twitter headlines now. Thanks for the suggestion!

  • (Score: 1) by gringer on Monday February 24 2014, @08:21PM

    by gringer (962) on Monday February 24 2014, @08:21PM (#6131)

    Are the site headlines currently mirrored on IRC (together with comment links)? If not, I guess that could be a useful feature. It would allow people to find out when new headlines are available without having to use other social networking sites.

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