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Come talk to us! C&H IRC

  • 01-04-2010 3:12am
    #1
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys! I've just set up an IRC channel to use for random chats. IRC is a like a chat room. Here's how to use it.

    1. Go to >>> http://webchat.quakenet.org/
    2. Type in a nickname for yourself (no spaces, use _)
    3. In channel, type #C&H PASSWORD*** e.g. #C&H student
    4. and that's it!
    ***Please PM me or our three resident OPs (Pygmalion, Davidius or Konata) for the password. Preferably, one of them :p

    If you like IRC and want to use a program instead (which has more options, and an ability to turn on sound so you know when there's new messages)

    To start simply download mIRC here and install as you would any other program

    Run IRC and select Tools > Options. This screen should be the first thing you see upon running the program

    Fill in the basic details; i.e. Your alias, an alternative (just in case great minds think alike) and e-mail

    Click the "Servers" tab. Open the "QuakeNet" folder and select a server

    Go back to the "Connect" tab and click connect

    Finally click Commands > Join channel

    Insert "#C&H" into the field and there you go!


    Anyone else with @ before their name is an admin in the room. Be nice!


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    NEED MOAR TOPIC.

    Also hello.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Ginja Ninja


    great idea onion for those of us who can't use msn.

    is there not a boards.ie rule against advertising sites outside this one?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    I would but every IRC channel I visit collapses under the sheer weight of how great I am.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    that's so cool! i havn't a clue how it works but that's class!


  • Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    great idea onion for those of us who can't use msn.

    is there not a boards.ie rule against advertising sites outside this one?
    When it's got to do with supporting and expanding the community, it's fine. Fighting Games have one, that's where I got the idea.
    Davidius wrote: »
    I would but every IRC channel I visit collapses under the sheer weight of how great I am.

    You should come anyway. I'll kick you if the walls start to give way.
    that's so cool! i havn't a clue how it works but that's class!
    It's a really easy system. Basically it's a channel set up on a server, and it relays messages between different computers attached to that channel. boards.ie used to have one but eh... Well, bubbles happened. :P

    By the way Q is our bot. He sits there and minds the channel for us so no one can steal the name C&H. He also has a few other uses :P
    Type
    /msg Q HELP
    
    for a list of commands which you might find handy.


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I fully endorse this product and, or, ah, service!


  • Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭Niall09


    Great idea :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda


    Right I'm lost...I'm in there and I can see jumpy hitting people with fishbot (:p) but I can't write....how do I write in it???!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    panda, the bar at the end of the convo :) type into that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭almostnever


    Right I'm lost...I'm in there and I can see jumpy hitting people with fishbot (:p) but I can't write....how do I write in it???!

    At the very,very bottom there's a text bar, it's hard enough to see because it's not really distinctive or a different colour and it's only teeny. :)

    Took me ages to figure it out :o


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    So like, if you're using this can you please use your boards name (or something similar), just it's nice to know who we're talking to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Right I'm lost...I'm in there and I can see jumpy hitting people with fishbot (:p) but I can't write....how do I write in it???!
    :P Box is at the very very bottom of the page, hard to see.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,840 ✭✭✭Luno


    This is just like those msn conversations except this is moderated!:eek::P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    M&S* wrote: »
    This is just like those msn conversations except this is moderated!:eek::P

    To be fair some of the stuff being discussed isn't particularly child-friendly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Pygmalion wrote: »
    To be fair some of the stuff being discussed isn't particularly child-friendly.
    Yeah...all that maths talk should be kept away from kids...*solemn nod*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    I've just ventured in. Prepare to be dazzled by my trademark wit and engrossing anecdotes.
    That's if ye don't all feck off once my name shows up.....


  • Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    Anyone home?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    *peers inconspicuously from behind couch*

    No-one's here.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Oh dear, it appears to be just me on my own now. *quits*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    We're not talking about maths for once. Now's your chance everybody!


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  • Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    This is PACKED tonight. Madness!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭seriousfizz


    D4RK ONION wrote: »
    This is PACKED tonight. Madness!


    Wow, it really is taking over ehh? xD

    Not sure if I can handle that shizz this evening :P

    EDIT: I'M GOIN' IN


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭degausserxo


    We're naming counties that nobody cares about now. YOU'RE MISSING ALL THE FUN


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Apparently I've been banned from the channel. ¬_¬


  • Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    full irc = no more posts on forum?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭D.R cowboy


    I was banned how do i get un banned


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    grovel.gif

    Last one on again tonight. What a jip.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Oooooohhhh must have a nosey!

    Long as I don't have to download anything :D

    *checks first post again for details*

    EDIT: Nobody online at this time :/


  • Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    I've closed the IRC for now. I'll open it for a chat every once in a while. Time to start using the forum again guys :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    You've created a monster ONION, are you sure you can contain it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    D4RK ONION wrote: »
    I've closed the IRC for now. I'll open it for a chat every once in a while. Time to start using the forum again guys :)

    /me is confused


  • Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭Niall09


    Ehhhhh :/


  • Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    The IRCis set to +m or moderated. That means only @ and + people can talk. And seeing as how no one has + it's essentiallly closed. I'll open in on busy nights, but it was taking too much traffic away from this place. Thing of it like a bar that only opens when the owner has enough effort to put out the seats.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    A Neurotic wrote: »
    /me is confused
    Oh I see what you did there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    He has closed it for now as everybody left C&H and he wants folks to get their bums back into Boards :D


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  • Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    I'm pretty sure /me works in Skype chat if you want to download that :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    D4RK ONION wrote: »
    The IRCis set to +m or moderated. That means only @ and + people can talk. And seeing as how no one has + it's essentiallly closed. I'll open in on busy nights, but it was taking too much traffic away from this place. Thing of it like a bar that only opens when the owner has enough effort to put out the seats.
    Eh? Might I just say, that's kinda a bollox. You set it up so we could all talk away from MSN (which is what we were doing anyway before), and it succeeded in that and all C&Hers could chat freely. And it was busy, which you seem to say like it's a bad thing. It's an enhancement of the forum, not a detriment. So what if C&H got less posts because of it? Does that matter, we were communicating anyway.

    This is a rather stupid and annoying decision imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    Should definitely re-open IRC now. I need to be entertained and I don't think I can stay awake all night! D:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭MavisDavis


    Davidius wrote: »
    Should definitely re-open IRC now. I need to be entertained and I don't think I can stay awake all night! D:

    Why would you want to stay awake all night? Vampire?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    MavisDavis wrote: »
    Why would you want to stay awake all night? Vampire?
    To make the time between now and college tomorrow morning seem as long as possible.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭unknown13


    RE-OPEN IRC there is no reason for it to be closed


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    If it's going to be re-opened at all, it should be done under a new name.

    As things stand, it's offering nothing to the C&H forum. If anything, it has been to the detriment of the forum from a traffic point of view. Also, much of what is said and discussed on the IRC channel would not be permissable under the C&H charter, so I'd rather the two were not associated by name.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    Probably should have one during the summer when everyone is (even more) bored.

    IRC was a terrible distraction from doing study so I kinda support its current closure. It's a noble decision to shut it down since it looks after my best interests. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭MavisDavis


    Davidius wrote: »
    To make the time between now and college tomorrow morning seem as long as possible.


    Oh, distraction is required, then.


  • Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    Hmm, trying to think of the best option. i miss the chat as I'm in the mood for a casual chat and can't think of anything to post on the forums. Maybe after a certain hour the chat opens?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭degausserxo


    +1 on that. There wouldn't be a lot of us online past, say, midnight, what with people in school and college. And then, we're (I'm using this word in as nice a way as possible) restricted to certain threads. From my experience so far, it's really just people trying to get to know their fellow boardsies, cause it can get very messy in the Den.


  • Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    Okay, how about I open it between midnight and 5am? Call it Clearasil and Watersheds. Or the ONION club.

    But to back up my reason, I've been offline for less than 24 hours and the amount of threads with new posts has stretched to the second page and then den has about 10 pages of new posts. Point proven about detrimental traffic. I'll open it at midnight from now on, see how that works :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Definetly sounds like a fair solution, thanks Onion. :)

    Except now my insomnia will be even more fuelled. <_< >_>


  • Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    Opening at 11 tonight, seems pretty quiet around here today :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭unknown13


    Can we open at 11 tonight because it is dead around here.


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