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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: 1) by morgauxo on Monday February 24 2014, @03:01PM

    by morgauxo (2082) on Monday February 24 2014, @03:01PM (#5839)

    I'm sure the pros and cons for Soylent to have it's own IRC server were carefully considered but I think it's going to limit it's popularity. I'm sure many of us already have irc rooms we frequent. For example... most hackerspaces have a room on Freenode. Actually... isn't just about everything on Freenode? Maybe other irc clients make it easy to be on two servers at once? I don't think mine does.

    Just my 2cents, I may be wrong.

  • (Score: 1) by Landon on Monday February 24 2014, @03:10PM

    by Landon (45) on Monday February 24 2014, @03:10PM (#5851) Journal

    What client do you use? I'm using irssi and other servers are just a /connect away

    • (Score: 1) by morgauxo on Monday February 24 2014, @09:20PM

      by morgauxo (2082) on Monday February 24 2014, @09:20PM (#6192)

      I'm using erc in emacs. So... irssi actually lets you join channels on two different servers at the same time then?

      • (Score: 1) by Landon on Monday February 24 2014, @09:44PM

        by Landon (45) on Monday February 24 2014, @09:44PM (#6213) Journal

        Absolutely, it wouldn't be much of an IRC client if it couldn't.

  • (Score: 1) by morgauxo on Monday February 24 2014, @09:23PM

    by morgauxo (2082) on Monday February 24 2014, @09:23PM (#6195)

    Oh... hey... actually, it would seem I can do this in erc. Sweet! Nevermind, Carry on then, my bad!

    • (Score: 1) by Landon on Monday February 24 2014, @09:46PM

      by Landon (45) on Monday February 24 2014, @09:46PM (#6217) Journal

      Awesome! I suppose we'll see you on soon, then?

  • (Score: 1) by cykros on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:25AM

    by cykros (989) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:25AM (#6335)

    I didn't think there were any irc clients left that were single-server only. BitchX might be, but then, BitchX also doesn't do SSL (afaik) and is generally at this point legacy anyway.