Announcement: Ectochat Now On IRC! For Good!
Posted by John Brownlee
Last night, we officially announced ectochat and had a banner night, with a high of 25 people in the chat room at the same time.
The experience was so successful that we immediately decided that the ectochat proof of concept was over, and we needed to set up an #ectomo chat room on IRC pronto. The problem? We didn’t have a flawless IRC solution for it yet, something office drones stuck behind their browser at work could just click to come chat.
And we still don’t. That’s coming this weekend. In the meantime, we have a stopgap solution on how even people without an IRC client can visit ectochat through the comfort of their browser.
1) Go to chat.efnet.org.
2) Enter your desired nickname.
3) Add some semblance of a possibly real realname.
4) Under “Channel,” select “Other…”
5) Enter “#ectomo” in the pop-up, then click “OK”
6) Click “Login.” You’re there!
Or use an IRC client, if you’re not at work. You want to connect to an EFnet server: irc.efnet.net is a good one. The IRC option is officially superseding the crappy Meebo Room option until futher notice, and the ectochat button in the sidebar will go to this post until we provide our own solution. See you there!
Categories: IRC, Ectochat, Announcements
Posted at 3:09 pm on December 6, 2007
11 Comments -
damn, denied - too many connections, since when did ectmo get so popular? did i miss out ‘cos i wasnt here last nite?
Comment by outbreak — December 6, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
Could someone point me in the direction of an Idiot’s Guide to Setting up iChat to Work with IRC?
Comment by Racerabbit — December 6, 2007 @ 10:10 pm
I’m kind of in the same boat, I’ve never tried to get on irc from trillian. I’ll give it a shot later.
Comment by Hlaode — December 7, 2007 @ 1:28 am
Too many connections - plus my nick is already taken!? Beware the False Optical!
Comment by optical — December 7, 2007 @ 1:55 am
Check out HydraIRC for windows and Colloquy for OSX - two great open source (free!) IRC apps.
Comment by dubtea — December 7, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
Go figure. I /finally/ post a comment and I mis-type my Website. Hadurrrrrr.
Comment by dubtea — December 7, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
I fuckin’ hate IRC. The meebo room worked fine, was instantly accessible, and had the same look and layout of the site itself. Why people insist on IRC baffles me as much as people who split South Park torrents into 26 smaller RAR files, all packed into yet ANOTHER larger raw file.
Comment by Ninja-bot — December 7, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
Keeps a-kickin’ me… sadface goes here.
Comment by whiskeytits — December 7, 2007 @ 2:55 pm
The Meebo Rooms didn’t work fine: even for only 12 hours, they were prone to people coming in, mucking shit up with stupid, then being very, very difficult to get rid of. IRC has more moderation controls. It also allows us to linger in there in dedicated clients.
Ectomo will have a dedicated solution to accessing ectochat this weekend (with the same look and layout of the site, even). We promise! Please keep trying! We don’t want to exclude anyone.
Comment by John Brownlee — December 7, 2007 @ 3:04 pm
Great. It didn’t load for me, so I hit reload. It continued to mess up, so I continued to reload. The one time it worked, I get banned for a “join flood.”
Comment by Kurt McAllister — December 8, 2007 @ 12:13 am
[…] Javascript turned on. If you don’t, or it doesn’t work, you can continue to use the chat.efnet.org solution, or you can load up a real IRC client like mIRC (for Windows) or Colloquy (for Mac) and […]
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