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IRC - Internet Relay Chat

Blinkenshell's official IRC channel: #blinkenshell @ irc.allshells.net (direct link: irc://#blinkenshell@irc.allshells.net) ["Allshells"]

If you've never heard of IRC before, or just want to join the chat immidiately without installing an IRC client on your computer, use one of the online web chat clients:

If you want your own IRC client, take a look at the step-by-step howto on installing and configuring XChat/Silverex to connect to our chat room: ["Howto/XChat"]

["Blinkenbot"] is a bot that logs all conversations and creates statistics available at: http://blinkenbot.blinkenshell.org/

People with that has an account on the server can get autovoice on the IRC channel, ask [:JohanMarcusson:Independence].

Rules

  • No flooding or spamming (in channel or PM)
  • No advertising
  • No auto-rejoin after kick
  • English only please
  • Be nice! Don't start flamewars, insult others etc

Never heard of IRC before?

IRC is a protocol for communicating (chatting) over the internet. It stands for Internet Relay Chat and it's one of the most popular chat protocols, even though the protocol is quite old. If you have never used IRC before, you'll need to get an IRC-client (or use the webchat). Here is a list of clients:

To connect to Blinkenshell's chat room:

Start up your IRC-client, choose a network and try to find some way of connecting to a server or network. Our IRC-network is not the most common, so it's probably not in the list of networks that comes with many IRC-clients. Therefore you have to add your own network, just add the server irc.blinkenshell.org or irc.overloadx.net on port 6667. If you connect to a server directly without specifying a network, use the same addresses/ports. When you are connected to the network, just join our channel #blinkenshell and start chatting with us! :)

Notable IRC Networks

  • ["Allshells"] (Blinkenshell)
  • ["Freenode"]
  • ["IRCnet"]
  • ["EFnet"]
  • ["Undernet"]
  • ["DALnet"]
  • ["Quakenet"]