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Want to chat with each other?

Want to chat with each other?

IRC is the answwer!

Stardock has, for years, has maintained an IRC server.  IRC is the granddaddy of modern chat systems.  It's old . . but it works and we use it.  You can too.

There are many IRC clients out there. 

The easiest might be mibbit.com because it has a web-based client (http://cbe002.chat.mibbit.com/).  You could use mIRC or Pidgin or Trillian or any number of others too.  Heck, even my HP Touchpad running WebOS has a client ()

Once you pick your IRC client it's time to join the fun! Here's what you'll do:

  1. Find where the client asks for the server and enter the following
    /server irc.stardock.com
  2. Once connected to the server (when all the text stops scrolling), you join the WinCustomize chat room by typing this:
    /join #WinCustomize

There's an older (but still accurate) article on the WinCustomize wiki about usign IRC.  You can read it here: http://wiki.wincustomize.com/wiki/MIRC:_Chatting_on_Stardock_IRC

 

See you around!

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Reply #26 Top

Quoting BigDogBigFeet, reply 25
There's a built in chat client in Impulse.
End of BigDogBigFeet's quote

...and in its predecessor...SDC ...;)

Reply #27 Top

What's an Impulse? ;P

Impulse is dead, long live SDC! (2)

Seriously though, I just dumped Impulse/GameStop last month and I had no replacement for the IRC client,  so thanks, ZubaZ!

Reply #28 Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 27
What's an Impulse?

Impulse is dead, long live SDC! (2)

Seriously though, I just dumped Impulse/GameStop last month and I had no replacement for the IRC client,  so thanks, ZubaZ!
End of Wizard1956's quote

If you use more than one chat client (Messenger Live, Yahoo, Google) then Trillian (free) is a possible choice.

Reply #29 Top

Nope, just Yahoo, so Mibbit  is perfect for me. Nothing to install. :thumbsup:

Reply #30 Top

ZubaZ is in the house again.  

Let's talk about all the people that are not there badly and see how long it takes for them to show up.

Reply #31 Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 30
Let's talk about all the people that are not there badly
End of Zubaz's quote

/me is not there badly.....

...........................................;p

Reply #32 Top

Let us all speak of teh people that are not present in a manner that reflects poorly on some aspect of said people.

Reply #33 Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 32
Let us all speak of teh people that are not present in a manner that reflects poorly on some aspect of said people.
End of Zubaz's quote

Zubaz' mother wears army boots and his father smells of elderberry....

[Zubaz is not here] ....;)

Reply #34 Top

-sigh-

 

Let us go to the #wincustomize or #stardock channels on the IRC server irc.stardock.com and speak of teh people that are not present in a manner that reflects poorly on some aspect of said people.

(Aslo, my mother bought a farm after she did a three year tour in Iraq so combat boots makes sense and if you smelled my father's natural scents, you'd be happy about his elderberry cologne.)

Reply #35 Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 34
Let us go to the #wincustomize or #stardock channels on the IRC server irc.stardock.com and speak of teh people that are not present in a manner that reflects poorly on some aspect of said people.
End of Zubaz's quote

OK...let's be sure about this...which people exactly?

The 'teh' people or the 'said' people?

[I'd hate to be a nuisance and reference the wrong ones]....;)

Reply #36 Top

The WORF force is getting stronger.

Reply #37 Top

lol.

Reply #38 Top

I used to be on IRC all the time, I loved talking with my friends in there, then someone insulted me in the most terrible way imaginable, and nothing happened to him at all. I never go in now....... B[]

Reply #39 Top

It's starting to feel a lill bit like the old days again.  \o/

GR has even got the stats going again - #Stardock

Let's hope it stays this way.  :grin:

Reply #40 Top

Quoting BoXXi, reply 38
I used to be on IRC all the time, I loved talking with my friends in there, then someone insulted me in the most terrible way imaginable, and nothing happened to him at all. I never go in now.......
End of BoXXi's quote

Not knowing the situation, I'll just propose the possibility of a fresh start?  The more, the merrier and all that.  No pressure.

Quoting Snowman, reply 39
GR has even got the stats going again - #Stardock
End of Snowman's quote

Technically, he's been tracking them the whole time, there just wasn't much substance in the numbers for a while.

Reply #41 Top

woooot wooooot I am on there now lol thanks for this  idea its great :D :beer: