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68040
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on: August 09, 2022, 15:40
Tried my luck at Snak only to find that 99.9% of IRC channels I ventured to are dead as a Dodo. Does anyone know of a few live ones? |
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #1 on: August 09, 2022, 17:30
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Since you're specifically asking for IRC, did you try the Mac Garden one? I don't know if there is much going on these days though. Most people obviously can't wait to hand Discord their personal data. :-) One thing that irritates me with IRC (during the last few years) was the extensive "ghosting", that is people lurking around the channel to listen in, but not being actually near their computer (or being busy). So you enter a channel with 20 people and not getting a simple response for two hours or so. But apart from Mac channels, there ought to be others still active given the popularity of IRC?
Last Edit: August 10, 2022, 06:30 by Bolkonskij
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #2 on: August 09, 2022, 20:33
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The MacGarden IRC is one biiiiig wasteland, too. And those are not people lurking around the channels silently, what you see there are soulless bots listening in (for whatever purpose).
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Europa
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64 MB Posts: 109 she/her
Reply #3 on: August 19, 2022, 22:21
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Texas Instruments graphing calc stuff is generally done on EFnet and there was still a pretty active IRC presence last I checked, especially on #cemetech. It helps they have bots that tie in with the website chat and with their Discord server, though. Other than that, I can't think of many I know for sure would be active. They surely must exist though.
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #4 on: August 20, 2022, 00:00
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Totally hijacking this, lol  Might it not make more sense, and I'm just thinking out loud here, to use a more cute, animated chat forum say for just ourselves even, using the old AOL platform that I've tested with the 68k Mac and emulator-compatible AIM software along with a few other Mac peeps? Here's the link to that version of AIM (caution, only a modern browser can surf this) https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/aim The ideal scenario would (maybe?) then be to have the Mac Garden host the server? Similar to the I believe that there are two of them now I think? AOL servers online now, but this would be exclusively ours, well, and the Mac Garden's own!  I'm just saying, it could be our best kept secret, at least until the rest of the world finds out and then wants to join because it's so super, retro-cool that is!  lol, but hey.. a Mac peep can dream. can't they? 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #5 on: August 20, 2022, 08:03
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An old style chat room would be a very neat thing. I've been bugging @fogwraith to add an embedded chat to the new Mac Garden site's gamehub section. Just as a place to meet fellow Mac enthusiasts and in order to allow for making plans for multiplayer gaming ... :-) For the time being, feel free to join up our Hotline server. It's the closest thing to being a 90's style chat room. P.S. I frequent the Mac Garden from my IIci running System 7.1 - it even displays fine using iCab - the page doesn't need a modern browser. Everyone, just remove the "s" in https and you'll be fine with cballero's link.
Last Edit: August 20, 2022, 08:08 by Bolkonskij
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Knezzen
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Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot
Reply #6 on: August 28, 2022, 22:30
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Yeah, I feel like we need to mention our Hotline server, as Bolkonskij mentioned already. It's connected to the Macintosh Garden Discord server as well, and the S7T crew are there on a daily basis. Come hang out!
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