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General Category => Say Hello! => Topic started by: Lord Raven on May 28, 2014, 03:47
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Hiya everyone,
Just my annual plug for the IRC - in other words, internet relay chat. Where you can chat to members on the forum! Here's a quick link (http://pkmn.net/forums/index.php?action=chat) and this thread has a few more instructions if you're feeling adventurous. (http://pkmn.net/forums/index.php?topic=82107.0).
A few things;
Don't disconnect/reconnect spam. Once you have the window open, keep the window open; use a different tab for browsing.
Follow the rules.
STAY IN CHAT EVEN IF ITS EMPTY! WITHIN AN HOUR SOMEONE ELSE WILL JOIN AND YALL CAN TALK! IF RAVEN IS ONLINE ALERT ME (BY SAYING RAVEN) AND HOPEFULLY I WILL COME ON! If I don't I'm AFK. BUT for activity, you must be patient and willing to wait for someone else to come in, otherwise no chat will ever happen.
And I ESPECIALLY recommend coming in if you're new which is why I posted it here! Then you can get to know me, know the history of the forum, and talk to some of the older people who may lurk around there. I'll try my best to pitch it to people who are on skype but never IRC though, but a lot of us are getting old and busy - this is why you new people have to start filling the void! You are the future!
Thank you in advance,
Raven
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ive tried keeping it open, but after not opening the tab for awhile it takes me back to the input name screen.. is there a way around that? (haha I think the disconnect/reconnect spam may have been aimed at me whoops)
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I'll be trying to use it a fair bit now, hopefully we can rebuild a great community in the chat like in the past.
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I'll be popping in more then, it's pretty nice talking in there actually ^^
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We've got a solid turnout at the moment, been a good evening in the chat =]
great job Muhed and great job everyone who's come in tonight
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I pop in every once in a while. Raven and I once had a decent conversation going with a couple others. I'm gonna try and get Kay in there, I want to swap FC's with her and her inbox is full.
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Yeah. My next few weeks (read: potentially 7) are packed so I'm hoping everyone can try to do this without me to be honest.
Quick update on life: cousin graduated high school today, went there and did some other stuff. Tomorrow I'll be on and off, getting stuff for a grad party on Friday (MY grad party!) then Saturday I'm doing grad party stuff. Sunday is up in the air, Monday/Tuesday I have no idea what's going on, hopefully nothing. After that, I'm busy the majority of the days (and if I'm not busy I'm dead tired) but I'll try my best to pop in.
I *will* annoyingly prod people to come in, though. I was very VERY active with this around 6-7 years back and chat used to have 20-30 people at peak times, and around 10 when it was like 11pm EST. I want to build that again, and I believe that can help us create a more active forum if you remain patient.
ive tried keeping it open, but after not opening the tab for awhile it takes me back to the input name screen.. is there a way around that? (haha I think the disconnect/reconnect spam may have been aimed at me whoops)
Screenshots please? I think you should try and get a client if the chat disconnects you or something every so often due to inactivity. I've never actually heard of that.
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Screenshots please? I think you should try and get a client if the chat disconnects you or something every so often due to inactivity. I've never actually heard of that.
Mine does it too - not sure how to go about screen shotting it because there's no obvious thing to screenshot (as in, I go on another tab, after ~5 minutes I'll check back and my page will refresh)
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The past few days the amount of people in the chat had been the best for a long time, it's great to see the chat grow so well.
It'd be awesome if that growth continue, doesn't matter how long you've been on the site, everyone's welcome to hang out and chat. You'll be missing out on some fun if you don't =]
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Mine does it too - not sure how to go about screen shotting it because there's no obvious thing to screenshot (as in, I go on another tab, after ~5 minutes I'll check back and my page will refresh)
Hmm. Try getting a client then; mIRC has a million tutorials and hexchat is extremely effective and easy to use. That way you don't accidentally mess it up with your browser or browser settings or something.
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Hmm. Try getting a client then; mIRC has a million tutorials and hexchat is extremely effective and easy to use. That way you don't accidentally mess it up with your browser or browser settings or something.
I'd also recommend Hexchat, works really nicely and it's customisable too.
If you're using it via iPad or mobile or whatnot look into some IRC apps too since that might work better =]
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Hi everyone,
Just an update - I've made Del a halfop in chat because he's there often and I'm not going to be there as often. Hopefully in the weeks to come he'll learn the ways of the trigger finger.
Fun(ny) fact for everyone - there used to be a script that made a count of how much Rex kicked me or something ridiculous. It definitely hit into the 300s. Now, I'm chat owner! Ha! #startedfromthebottom #nowwehere
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going up in the world, i won't let you down team
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Hey, when I try to chat on our site channel, I type something in press send and it says: Cannot send to channel: #pkmn.net
Can I have some help fixing this?
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Hey, when I try to chat on our site channel, I type something in press send and it says: Cannot send to channel: #pkmn.net
Can I have some help fixing this?
You're typing in colour, aren't you? Raven disabled colours
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^That would do it. Thanks for explaining that.
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Colors are honestly annoying to me and they hurt my eyes a little bit (it also makes chat hard to follow - trust me it does not do anything but hurt my ability to participate in chat) but so be it, I'm not online often enough for this to matter.
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I use a darker color when there are many people in the chat to help distinguish who's talking (on the rare occurrence that I'm talking in chat). I agree with some colors being painful to look at, but I don't think colors are inherently bad on chat. Just don't use bright yellow, pink, or green in consideration of other people, imo.
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for the life of me, dont use white
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hi i am on irc ladies come join us xoxoxox
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IRC getting even stronger, had a good catch up with Richard today =D
Keep it up guys!
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Colors are honestly annoying to me and they hurt my eyes a little bit (it also makes chat hard to follow - trust me it does not do anything but hurt my ability to participate in chat) but so be it, I'm not online often enough for this to matter.
Isn't there a setting in most IRC clients that lets you strip colour from messages on the client-side anyway? Shouldn't be a problem if you do that, no?
I can't check in mIRC because it wants me to register so I've switched to Hexchat and there's definitely an option for it on here.
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Colors are honestly annoying to me and they hurt my eyes a little bit
I use dark blue or red if I choose a color. I'm also annoyed by bright ones, and don't get me started on white......
I should be on soon everyone.
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Colors are honestly annoying to me and they hurt my eyes a little bit
I agree with you =P I also find the darker colours hard to read because my irc client has a black background.
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Yeah mine is dark too. In all honesty, *many* people want it so the simple solution is for us to adapt and adjust. I apologize that I sound like a broken record but clients really help with this sort of thing so you can make certain necessary adjustments.
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I'm fine without using colors if that's what's needed.
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Nah we'll keep colors. Has chat fizzled out a little bit? I sure as hell hope it hasn't.
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Nope, we regularly get a good number in and there's plenty of conversation going usually. It's very refreshing.
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Eek, I've sort of stopped coming online because of sixth form - I've usually got work to do and I'll work right up to ten with the internet in the background but I usually don't go on chat so it won't distract me... Sorry guys *sheepish smile*
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bUMP yeah ive also not been able to get on as frequently, im vacationing (thats a word??) right now so im not available as much .-.
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Oh yeah I work more or less a 24 hour job; I'll try to sign in tonight just to make sure I have registration in all my channels.
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I so feels weird to think it still even exists! I must have been like 15 when I last went there with Kat and Phil and all the others.
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Just a bump to let you guys know that we regularly get 15-20 people in chat. Chat is doing well now during peak hours, though by the time I get home (5-7pm Arizona Time) everyone's asleep :( Still it's nice to see.
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off the top of my head i can think or roughly 26ish people that have come in recently (although not all at once) so yeah we're hella #alive come hang out and chat and stuff
we were one person off of 20 the other day and we were SO CLOSE and then people dc'd randomly and the dream died ;;
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It's great to see that even though school's starting again, in the late afternoons / early evenings we're still getting strong turnouts (as well as homework not being sacrificed, it's actually like the old days where if someone wants to focus on homework there'll a temp ban set up for them) so yeah, keep it up gang, and for those who haven't joined in yet, I pose a simple question...
why not? =D