Answers to using the TDIClub Chat Room - Page 4

pkhoury · June 17th, 2016, 08:47

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Originally Posted by waltzconmigo

sorry for the seemingly luddite question, what are irc channels? actually by most today I may qualify under that category.

IRC - internet relay chat. Hardly anyone uses it anymore, at least compared to its popularity in the mid to late 90s, hence my original question.

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Originally Posted by bhtooefr

Definitely, it's one of the more active IRC channels I'm in.

So what are the IRC rules? And is dieselgate or off-topic stuff, such as that on threadzilla, discussed?

Now I need to find a good CLI IRC client for Linux or Solaris...

bhtooefr · June 17th, 2016, 14:00

Dieselgate isn't talked about that much, the channel is largely off-topic (but TDI discussion certainly happens) - a past slogan (and /topic) for the channel was "20% TDI, 110% WT*" (annoyingly, whiskey tango foxtrot is censored on these forums). Some of us don't even own TDIs any more.

There's also a few other channels on the same server, #ev being a channel for discussion of electric and electrified vehicles (which a few of us either own or have deposits on).

And as far as CLI clients, the big ones nowadays are irssi and weechat. Run in a tmux for maximum fun! (Or just use a znc instance to stay connected - I use both a znc and tmux+irssi for reasons. And I find screen to be unreliable.) Or, if you want to go for maximum Unix, there's always ii.

nicklockard · June 17th, 2016, 14:12

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Originally Posted by waltzconmigo

sorry for the seemingly luddite question, what are irc channels? actually by most today I may qualify under that category.

Think: "CB radio for nerds with keyboards".

waltzconmigo · June 18th, 2016, 05:06

thanks for the explanation Nick, nice new sig, as an econ. minor I could not agree more.

sootchucker · July 6th, 2016, 06:59

chat down?

bhtooefr · July 6th, 2016, 07:16

Works here.

sootchucker · July 6th, 2016, 07:39

i get "couldn't connect to remote server"

need to tell of lot lizard stories

JDSwan87 · July 6th, 2016, 08:28

a also works using the HOLOIRC app on my smertfone

leicaman · October 24th, 2017, 18:52

Is the chat down forever? No matter what machine I use the chat part of the web just DOES NOT WORK.

bhtooefr · October 24th, 2017, 19:36

The web chat does appear to be down, but you can directly connect using an IRC client, using the information on that page.

GeekDrew · January 6th, 2018, 10:19

For web chat, go to this URL: http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23%23tdiclub

For people who use an IRC client, please configure it to connect to Freenode (instructions). We'll be in ##tdiclub. Note that there are two hash marks before tdiclub.