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Bite My Shiny IRC

posted by mattie_p on Sunday February 23 2014, @09:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the ancient-but-useful-technology dept.

What is IRC? It stands for internet relay chat, and despite being developed in 1988, it is still a very useful means of low-bandwidth communication, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily across the world. We have created our own IRC Server at irc.sylnt.us, port 6667. Won't you join us?

Barrabas writes:

"Some have asked why we run our own servers instead of using a public one such as freenode.net. We did this to have control of the TOS, copyright, DMCA, and other legal issues. I like freenode (and their TOS) a lot, but we're building a community and we should make our own choices.

Landon, our overlord of IRC, set this up with a lot of help from his team. He also set us up a link-shortener sylnt.us domain for the Twitter account: that rocks! So send him some love if you see him on IRC - he's doing a bang-up job!

Speaking of Twitter, Bender, our IRC bot, posts the headlines to our Twitter account, so feel free to follow us there."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by lhsi on Monday February 24 2014, @05:56AM

    by lhsi (711) on Monday February 24 2014, @05:56AM (#5709)

    There is Yaaic (Yet Another Android IRC Client) on F-Droid (the Open Source Android app repository): https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=ir c&fdid=org.yaaic [f-droid.org]

    I used it a little a couple of years ago, but not recently. I might install it again and have a look at the SoylentNews IRC though.

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