Internet Relay Chat
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Due to lacking ad revenue, we can't keep the old blab chat up. Therefore, we've moved to the chat protocol IRC. It's 100% free and I have 100% control on the network we're on.
The channel in question is #elementsthegame on irc.ext3.net, a Network I'm Oper on. We're also using #etgtournaments on the same network for tournaments and chat games.
What is IRC?
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an old protocol for online chatting. It was created in 1988, only one month after my birth in fact.
'Client software is available for every major operating system that supports Internet access. As of April 2011, the top 100 IRC networks served more than half a million users at a time, with hundreds of thousands of channels operating on a total of roughly 1,500 servers out of roughly 3,200 servers worldwide.' - Wikipedia
IRC structure is composed of Networks, servers and channels. You connect to the servers on the network and you chat in the channels. Anyone can create a channel just by joining it on IRC. In fact, there is a plethora of powerful commands available for every user. Here's a fine FAQ that I can recommend, especially the IRC Tutorial on this page: http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/faq.html
However, that only covers basic IRC commands. A lot of what you as a normal user can do is associated with the Services on the network. These are server-side bots that present most of the service you'll ever need on a network. The normal Services are NickServ and ChanServ, and they handle exactly what they're named after. With NickServ you can register your nickname so that no one else can steal it, and ChanServ keeps channel security constant and can set flags on your own channel for more customisation. You can check what they can do at any time with the /ns help or
/cs help commands.
On ext3, we also have HostServ, which can change your hostmask appearance if you ask it nicely. We also have other bots, and it's easy to create your own ones as well. For instance, maybe you want a Mafia bot for playing Mafia in the tournament room. It's easy to download a template and run it for your friends. The possibilities of IRC are nigh endless. Just use your google-fu, young one.
Hi, today is the third day I try to access the chat, but I can not, the message below in the spoiler, does anyone know if can solve it?
] -neko.ext3.net- *** Looking up your hostname...
[18:38] -neko.ext3.net- *** Checking Ident
[18:38] -neko.ext3.net- *** No Ident response
[18:38] -neko.ext3.net- *** Found your hostname
[18:38] == CGI:IRC host/IP set to 189-69-84-145.dsl.telesp.net.br 189.69.84.145
[18:38] == You are banned from this server- Your IP (189.69.84.145) is listed in ircbl.ahbl.org for having an open proxy. In order to protect ext3 from abuse, we are not allowing connections with open proxies to connect. If you think this is an error, please e-mail admins@ext3.net
[18:38] -neko.ext3.net- *** Your IP address 189.69.84.145 is listed in ircbl.ahbl.org
[18:38] == ERROR: Closing Link: 189-69-84-145.dsl.telesp.net.br (*** Banned (DNS blacklist))
[18:38] == Disconnected from server: Connection to IRC server lost.