Want to chat with each other?
IRC is the answwer!
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 by ZubaZ | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Stardock has, for years, has maintained an IRC server. IRC is the granddaddy of modern chat systems. It's old . . but it works and we use it. You can too.
There are many IRC clients out there.
The easiest might be mibbit.com because it has a web-based client (http://cbe002.chat.mibbit.com/). You could use mIRC or Pidgin or Trillian or any number of others too. Heck, even my HP Touchpad running WebOS has a client ()
Once you pick your IRC client it's time to join the fun! Here's what you'll do:
- Find where the client asks for the server and enter the following
/server irc.stardock.com - Once connected to the server (when all the text stops scrolling), you join the WinCustomize chat room by typing this:
/join #WinCustomize
There's an older (but still accurate) article on the WinCustomize wiki about usign IRC. You can read it here: http://wiki.wincustomize.com/wiki/MIRC:_Chatting_on_Stardock_IRC
See you around!
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Reply #23 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:59 PM
If a shoe will do, I'll be there. I've got sole. 
Reply #25 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:23 PM
There's a built in chat client in Impulse.
Reply #27 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:29 PM
What's an Impulse? 
Impulse is dead, long live SDC! (2)
Seriously though, I just dumped Impulse/GameStop last month and I had no replacement for the IRC client, so thanks, ZubaZ!
Reply #28 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:51 PM
Impulse is dead, long live SDC! (2)
Seriously though, I just dumped Impulse/GameStop last month and I had no replacement for the IRC client, so thanks, ZubaZ!
If you use more than one chat client (Messenger Live, Yahoo, Google) then Trillian (free) is a possible choice.
Reply #29 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:04 AM
Nope, just Yahoo, so Mibbit is perfect for me. Nothing to install. 
Reply #30 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:13 AM
ZubaZ is in the house again.
Let's talk about all the people that are not there badly and see how long it takes for them to show up.
Reply #32 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:54 AM
Let us all speak of teh people that are not present in a manner that reflects poorly on some aspect of said people.
Reply #34 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:40 AM
-sigh-
Let us go to the #wincustomize or #stardock channels on the IRC server irc.stardock.com and speak of teh people that are not present in a manner that reflects poorly on some aspect of said people.
(Aslo, my mother bought a farm after she did a three year tour in Iraq so combat boots makes sense and if you smelled my father's natural scents, you'd be happy about his elderberry cologne.)
Reply #35 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:19 AM
OK...let's be sure about this...which people exactly?
The 'teh' people or the 'said' people?
[I'd hate to be a nuisance and reference the wrong ones]....
Reply #38 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:31 AM
I used to be on IRC all the time, I loved talking with my friends in there, then someone insulted me in the most terrible way imaginable, and nothing happened to him at all. I never go in now....... 
Reply #40 Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Not knowing the situation, I'll just propose the possibility of a fresh start? The more, the merrier and all that. No pressure.
Technically, he's been tracking them the whole time, there just wasn't much substance in the numbers for a while.
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Reply #21 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:28 PM
Yeah it did use to be active and fun.