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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @01:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @01:23PM (#5973)

    I don't see how to get an URL preview with the URL shortening service. After all, if I don't know where http://sylnt.us/goatse [sylnt.us] goes to, then how can I know whether it is safe to click on? (BTW, it is. But you'll have to take my word on it, because there's no preview available, as far as I can see.)

    Indeed, IMHO URL shortening services should enable preview by default, and only disable it on the user's request (where the user is the one clicking on links, not the one creating them).

  • (Score: 1) by Landon on Monday February 24 2014, @01:41PM

    by Landon (45) on Monday February 24 2014, @01:41PM (#5981) Journal

    Right now you'll have to take my word that sylnt.us has a whitelist for *dev.soylentnews.org and *slashdot.org domains. I'll check plugins to see if there is one for previews, but I don't remember seeing one.

  • (Score: 1) by Landon on Monday February 24 2014, @01:49PM

    by Landon (45) on Monday February 24 2014, @01:49PM (#5989) Journal

    I found the plugin, but it's not working atm. I'll post a journal update if/when I get it working.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:00PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:00PM (#6838)

      Thank you. And keep up the good work!