I thought about online chat and IRC room for a long time, I even at one point was thinking about setting up a vent server (which I had done for a time) for fans to chat it up. But when you think about the time and money it requires to set up a vent server for online chat form a website point of view, the cost would be way too high. That is if I had my own personal server, which I don’t.
There really was a moment in time when I had to think about it, think about what was gonna be best for what I wanted to have. The main goal of the forums was to build a community of people who enjoy what I bring them, content wise. That over time just didn’t seem to work.
That being said, I decided that I would set up an IRC channel, what is IRC you ask?
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message[as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.
So what are the goals with the IRC channel?
The main goal is to provide the fans and users of the site to quickly and the best way I’ve found to chat up and discuss topics.
Who can use the Room?
Anyone who has access to IRC. The room is open to anyone and is free to use. There are no ads other than the one’s place by the host of the service. This out of my control, however you can simply block them using AdBlocker Plus.
There aren’t any other rules other than simply be polite and nice, if I find people in there being ass holes to other people or to me itself (ex; your site sucks, etc) I will simply kick you, if you keep doing it I’ll ban you. I also understand the room may not be very busy or have many users if none (then myself) in the room, but I’ll do my best to spread the word and get people in they’re chatting it up.
If you have any questions, comments please let me know in the comments below or you can tweet me at @NeckarUnrivaled. Thanks for reading, I’m sorry today’s post was so short, I plan on releasing a new hopefully long going blog series tomorrow, more details about it tomorrow or you can simply ask me in IRC.
IRC Page: http://neckarunrivaled.com/irc
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