Dream Views Chat (irc)

**Dangeruss** · 07-27-2006 04:27 AM

So if you connect to the IRC server "Darkmyst," and then go to #DreamViews, you'll see me! I've been chatting it up there for a while but it gets awful lonely, you know, with no one knowing about it, so I figured I'd announce it!

IRC is easy to use and it doesn't suffer from any of the vices of chatspot. It's a separate program so you don't have to fiddle with multiple browser windows either.

to get started, download a client. I use Xchat, which is downloaded at: http://www.xchat.org

when it's all installed and whatnot, go into XChat>Server list

set up your nicknames, type in Darkmysyt as the server, and click connect

now type in "/join #DreamViews" after you're connected.

And that's all there is to it! Xchat becomes a tray icon when you X it so it's nice and handy. If someone wants to volunteer for Mod-dom, you can leave it running in the backround without it getting the way.

now go and chat!!

edit: Kaniaz makes it easier:

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

I think you can just do the following:

1. Open your IRC client of choice.
2. Type /server irc.darkmyst.org
3. Let it connect.
4. Type /join #dreamviews
5. PROFIT

Alternatively, if you're lucky, copy and paste this url into your address bar:
irc://irc.darkmyst.org/dreamviews
And your IRC client should handle the rest. Firefox may give a warning.
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**MSG** · 07-27-2006 04:38 AM

yeeah

I'm using linux because I'm really cheap and I dont know what client to use

I'm gonna find one though

EDIT: xchat is multi-platform... nice!

**Kaniaz** · 07-27-2006 04:42 AM

I thought Xchat had a Linux port. Anyway, I am so living it up in there right now.

**Umbrasquall** · 07-27-2006 04:45 AM

I never really got the whole IRC thing. The closest I've been acquainted is through Bash.org.

Wait... you have to pay for mIRC and Xchat right?

**FreshBrains** · 07-27-2006 04:54 AM

YAAAAAAAAYY!
RELIEF! SWEET RELIEF!

**Kaniaz** · 07-27-2006 05:17 AM

Wait... you have to pay for mIRC and Xchat right?[/b]

Nope, it's free. At least mIRC has a trial thing on it, but it only annoys you at startup. You can get away without paying for it.

**Umbrasquall** · 07-27-2006 05:49 AM

Hmm I remember I had mIRC on my computer at one point. I clicked on it to see what it was like and it said trial expired and wouldn't let me do anything else. So I uninstalled it.

**Kaniaz** · 07-27-2006 06:17 AM

Then you slipped into a parallel universe where mIRC wasn't free? It's always been "free" enough, apart from the irritating nagging dialog at the start that you click through.

**MSG** · 07-27-2006 09:30 AM

yeah so IRC rules

not everybody knows how to use it though

thats a good thing

but then again, not everybody knew how to use chatspot either

that is quite sad

**irishcream** · 07-27-2006 09:54 AM

I think i'm just gonna wait for Ice to code it all in when the trial period of this thing is up...

**Alex D** · 07-27-2006 12:19 PM

Are you sure you registered the channel? I'm not getting anything.

**MSG** · 07-27-2006 01:48 PM

I think its quite sucessful

people seem to be using it

just gotta get more people though

**Merlock** · 07-27-2006 02:05 PM

For blazes sake, use DarkMyst or something.
AfterNET is so horribly abuse-obsessed that it doesn't allow connections from any country other than the South Pole but even the penguins have to wait 5 minutes in queue. :sweat2:

**Alex D** · 07-27-2006 02:33 PM

Darkmyst would be nice.

In the mean time... there's only three of us. Come on guys, it's fun.

**Manifold_Time** · 07-27-2006 07:07 PM

I'm the only one on right now.

-__-

**FreshBrains** · 07-27-2006 07:23 PM

Arrgh, whenever I join nobody is there.

**Alex D** · 07-27-2006 07:41 PM

Guy's... it's okay to join and say nothing. It doesn't kick you off.

**Courtney Mae** · 07-27-2006 07:47 PM

Meeeh, I can't use it.

**Manifold_Time** · 07-27-2006 10:00 PM

Why not Courtney?

**OpheliaBlue** · 07-27-2006 11:03 PM

I went ahead and pinned this topic so more people can find it easier to help get the chat going

**Manifold_Time** · 07-28-2006 04:05 AM

chat peaked at 6 people today...

woot!

**MSG** · 07-28-2006 04:33 AM

seven users now

and courtney if you're having trouble then just goto

http://www.xchat.org/files/binary/win32/xchat-2.6.7.exe

if you have windows... download it and install it

and once its installed just connect to the AfterNET server

and when its all connected then type /join #DreamViews

and it will work

**Courtney Mae** · 07-28-2006 04:44 AM

No, Micheal. I mean.
I can't install the thing.
My dad freaks out about me downloading things.
I can't even update my AIM.

**Dangeruss** · 07-28-2006 05:26 AM

my first sticky!

**Umbrasquall** · 07-28-2006 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by Manifold_Time

chat peaked at 6 people today...

woot!
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Amazing...

Originally Posted by Manifold_Time

my first sticky!

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Congrats.

Anyhow I'll download it again and try it out. Hopefully it'll work.

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