You are cordially invited to the #daniweb channel on server irc.daniweb.com, port 6667. We need some new blood to keep the conversations fresh, and what's more fun than chatting with your favorite techies in real-time?
Narue 5,707 Bad Cop Team Colleague
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
Great idea, but I haven't the slightest idea how to do it.
scru 909 Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
For those not knowing how to use IRC, here is a quick recipe on how to join the daniweb channel.
You will need:
Mozilla Firefox web browser
Directions:
1. Install that chatzilla add-on from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16 (search for the button that says "add to firefox" and press it. A dialog should appear, on which you should press the "Install" button). When prompted, restart the browser.
2. Start the chatzilla application: From your Mozilla Firefox Tools menu, choose Chatzilla.
3. When the chatzilla window appears, type the following command into the text box and press enter:
/server irc.daniweb.com4. Once chatzilla successfully connects to the daniweb irc server (when the progress bar stops moving), you need to join the daniweb channel, using this command:
/join #daniweb5. If you would like to change you nickname, use this command:
/nick YourNickNameEDIT: steps 3-5 can be applied to any irc client; I just used chatzilla for this recipe because it's a quick add-on to Mozilla Firefox, which a lot of people already have.
Ancient Dragon commented: perfect :) +36
Sulley's Boo commented: arigato =') +6
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
MosaicFuneral 812 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
In there, what's so great? Impossible to break any of those lurking records... :(
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
>In there, what's so great?
We do have discussions every once in a while, but with only 7-8 people there on average, it becomes kind of difficult to keep a steady conversation flowing. If more people from some different timezones joined, I'm sure that channel would become a far more interesting hangout. :)
Narue 5,707 Bad Cop Team Colleague
>but with only 7-8 people there on average
The same 7-8 people. The whole point of this thread is to increase the awareness of the chat channel and make it better.
scru 909 Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
What's wrong with those 7-8 people? Do they have strange warts behind their ears?
jephthah 1,888 Posting Maven
i havent used IRC in 10 years.
adamramadhan 0 Newbie Poster
i wish it was on freenode :) dont have to connect again and again .
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
lllllIllIlllI 178 Veteran Poster
i'll see you there :)
Salem 5,248 Posting Sage
IRC is the "Mos Eisley" of the internet ;)
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
>How come the Java IRC client at daniweb.com/chat is no longer with us?
The Java client was replaced with a Flash equivalent about a year ago. The flash client (along with all the other IRC integration with this site) was removed during one of the site's 'upgrades'. Don't let that stop you though; IRC is still alive and kicking if you have enough patience to idle around for a few minutes.
Web clients are fun to get started with, but trust me, the real IRC experience is felt by using a standalone client (preferably with green text on a black background in Courier font :P).
MosaicFuneral 812 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
I got kicked.. :( Plus the bot is crappy(because I say so).
jephthah 1,888 Posting Maven
IRC is the "Mos Eisley" of the internet
nah, that would be Craigslist.
you dont get arrested or killed on IRC.
~s.o.s~ 2,560 Failure as a human Team Colleague Featured Poster
I do get to see a couple of new faces in the Daniweb IRC channel these days, so I guess the efforts are kinda paying off. :-)
> I got kicked.. Plus the bot is crappy(because I say so).
Swearing / use of cuss words is not allowed in the channel in case you didn't know. ;-)
jephthah 1,888 Posting Maven
Swearing / use of cuss words is not allowed in the channel in case you didn't know. ;-)
eh, we did an experiment and it appears that only s--t and f--k are bootworthy. anything else seems to be fair game.
MosaicFuneral 812 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
Swearing / use of cuss words is not allowed in the channel in case you didn't know. ;-)
I think it was more from threatening to kill it and its little bot buddies and family, with my big bot friends.
No. I have not been drinking.
edit:
Or it was yes, and it's just getting late.
lllllIllIlllI 178 Veteran Poster
To help get a bit of more publicity on things like the IRC or code tags and other things, it would be nice to have a little tutorial or something that a new user had to go through before they properly joined the community.
That way we could get the word out about this and also get it so people actually understand code tags before they go out into the forums.
:) just thinking
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