Back to the index! Chat With Us on IRC!

Chat with us, live, in person! Well, not in person, but live for sure. Somnolescent runs an IRC room on the chat network Rizon where you can come talk to us about whatever you want, we're not picky.

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IRC?

Internet Relay Chat! IRC is a very old but very simple chat protocol that's been a staple of the Internet since the early 90s. Many friends have been made, projects worked on, games scheduled, and ridiculous things argued about on IRC servers. You like 90s Web stuff? It's hard to get more 90s than IRC.

I know what IRC is, what do I put into my client?

#somnolescent on irc.rizon.net. Consult Rizon's connection information for ports and authenticating to your nick and all that good stuff.

I don't know what IRC is, what do I do?

If you just want to chat with us, use this embedded IRC client, courtesy of KiwiIRC. This will save your nickname and any settings you change in the embedded IRC client to your browser. Just pick a username for yourself and click Start.

(Please be aware that we might be inactive and idling at the specific moment you join! We have to work and sleep and stuff too. We do check it throughout the day though, so just keep the tab open or your client open and we'll get back to you, we promise.)

Well, why can't you just have a Discord?

That's the old passage to Ravenholm. We don't go there anymore. :marf:

The nice thing about IRC is that there's many servers out there for chatting on, they don't rely on each other, and you can pick whichever client you like to use. You're not tethered to one built by Discord or Guilded or whatever. Windows users, Linux people, Mac cultists, phoneposters of any stripe, the retrocomputing crowd—there's an IRC client you can install to your device, and if you don't want to install anything, you can still chat using your Web browser!