IRC Anyone?
 

Anyone here think it would be a good idea to set up an ecomodder irc channel?

could be a place to randomly hang out and kill time :)

so if anyone wants to join me go to #ecomodder on efnet

I'm there!

http://chat.efnet.org/ is a good way to get on irc if you haven't used mirc or some other stand alone program before.

Just put in a nick and #ecomodder for the channel

I'll drop in for a bit...

I can't find the EFnet server on X-chat, they have a efnet listing, but it has a ton of sub servers... tried the other link as well and nothing was there.
I really like IRC, one of the best chat programs out there, perfect for forums.

the server i am currently connected to is irc2.choopa.net

I have trillian set to connect to a random us efnet server and that seems to work well. irc.prison.net seems to be a pretty stable server that i use when nothing else seems to work.

Well the channel hasn't had really much in the way of conversation.

There have been 15 or so people join the channel sit there for a minute then leave. So I don't think this counts as a success. But I will leave the window open on my computer and if a few other people that use trillian or some other client that has irc built in join and idle on there maybe it will pick up. But if not no biggie, nothing ventured nothing gained :thumbup:

Sorry to really raise the dead with this thread, but is the IRC channel still active? I'd love to add EM to my IRC list :)

I haven't been on it in months so I doubt it :) It never did get a critical mass of people in it so I think it just died out and nobody really cared.

Maybe instead of IRC we could set up a XMPP/Jabber conference that way people could just use their normal IM client and it would be easier to maintain chats and keep the nuts and spammers out.

I am still up for something, just have to get enough users on there to be worthwhile.

Yeah, I would be up for something, too. Well, we can always start something, and then just re-announce it to the world :)

I am founder of a couple support channels on Freenode. If you think about setting it up as IRC again, I can give you a hand maintaining it.

I really like XMPP for IM and pretty much everything now. But IRC is no problem, I am sure there is an XMPP to IRC gateway so it would still work just as smoothly as everything else does in it.

So if you want to set up something just pick a channel and server on IRC and I will add it on pidgin or somewhere and if nothing else I'll idle in there to help your numbers :)

We need a bot to announce new topics from the site onto the channel. That could be cool and make a good reason to hang around in there.

Ok, well I can setup the channel on Freenode if you'd like. I'm pretty familiar with their workings and what-have-you. The channel I'm on now is #ecomodder if anyone wants to swing by. I'll go ahead and get it registered and setup so we can all use it :)

Maybe start a new post once we're up and running and announce it to the world?

I'm in.

What about shoutbox?
 

A while ago Johnny Mullet proposed adding a shoutbox to EM, just for those who were logged in. I like that idea, since it doesn't require extra programs.

I'll be in the channel all day eastern time from work. 7.30 to ~16.00.

Cool, cool. Well I'm here just about all the time :)

Anyone else who has IRC out there, feel free to drop by!