Do People Still Use IRC?

Hello,

do people still use IRC, and what channels are you guys normally on?

I'm on IRC almost daily.

Every day ...

I ask because the IRC on from this website foes not seem to work for me. There is an IRC link at the top of this website.

@rjd324
Which client do you use? What kind of errors do you get?

If you are using the link "IRC Window", which browser you are using, because I doubt it works with Amiga browsers.

Jojn us on Discord.. it is the modern IRC version :)

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But does not work on our Amiga browsers...

Okay, if irc.amigans.net is meant to forward me on to SE.AmigaWorld.net, then I guess there is no issue. Joining #amigaworld.

@afxgroup

I'm on a few different Discord servers (AmigOS and "Official Commodore Amiga" and on the Amigaworld IRC. Which discord servers are you hanging out on afxgroup?

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@Skateman

Did you try Pidgin for AmiCygnix?

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Nope... but then again... nothing beats the retro feel of IRC.
I use discord mainly on my X86 machines.

@rjd324

It's the other way around actually.

@origin

Right, I am confused by that. All I know is that I am in a room named "#amigaworld" (SE.AmigaWorld.net), if that is where most people from here are then that is fine.

I'll consider pidgin at some point too.

@rjd324

Just type "/list" (without quote marks) to get the current list of channels.

#6

join us on

https://discord.gg/yuxGrQNE

@all

Pidgin was working with Discord last year but recently it would join the channels but not show and posts. I use AmIRC on my Amiga for IRC and Discord webapp for that.

Anyone have better luck with Pidgin?

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari

@tekmage
For me, pidgin brings the messages from a channel, but when I write something, this is not visible to the other users. So, it doesn't work quite well right now.

I'd love to see an update on it.

@walkero

How do you login to discord?
When i try pidgin says:

Need CAPTCHA to login. Consider using harmony first, then retry.

I have a slightly updated version of pidgin that works with messenger again.
Would be nice to try it with discord too.

@smf

I've downloaded and ported the latest discord plugin for pidgin. The author startet to implement an authorisation process using a QR code, but it is not finished yet.
As far as I know, discord wants to make a special authorisation, when you login with a certain device the first time. It seems it uses CAPTCHAs and/or QR codes for this.
I don't know, how we can handle this as I don't have a discord account.

@smf
What I did was to create an account and add it by selecting discord. But I did this when the latest pidgin was released. Maybe, back then there was no CAPTCHAS required.

I can give it a try again when cygnused release a newer version.