Bleeping Computer has set up a chat channel on IRC that you are all more than welcome to visit and hang out at.

Not only is this a great way to get quick help on a problem you may be having, but it will also allow all the members to get to know each other better. There are a few ways to reach the chat channel which I will discuss below.

If you use a desktop IRC client you can use the following information to reach our channel:

IRC Server: irc.wyldryde.org
IRC Port: 6667
IRC Channel: #BleepingComputer

If you use MIRC (which is an excellent Windows IRC client), you can click on the below link to automatically connect to our channel:

irc://irc.wyldryde.org/bleepingcomputer

We also have available a Java web program that will allow you to connect to the channel. This program can be found at the below link:

Bleeping Computer IRC Chat Information

Included in the above link are some excellent links on learning about IRC and how to use it.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Been there done that nobody there.

Another board that has had some success with this has set two evenings a week as regular meeting times. Maybe you could pole everyone for suggested times?

Good ideah! Ok but I dont understand isnt this the same chat we have on the site already or is this different. Why would we need another chat thing?

Its the same, but a lot of people do not know about it. The only reason why people are not there is because people come, see noone there, and then leave. It costs nothing to stay in the room and eventually people will start filling up there.

Hmm a caht I will do a search for an irc for linux

unless a course someone will

When i get home ill connect and just leave it going If there is one person there others will stay connected as well. and sooner or later is will be buzzing away like the fourms.

all you some of us get to see a but everyone there seems to be and no one gives a or responds to a

Bluie. I am very sorry to see you were ignored in the chat. Sometimes people get busy. It might take a bit for someone to reply. If you wanted to talk to someone specific just type someone's name in the list and it will ding them and get their attention. I am sure no one meant any offense. I wish I had been there.

Why is it down? All of a sudden everyone was disconnected or quit and i was the only one there. The chanserv bot wasnt even there?

Sometimes the IRC server has problems. Try later, its out of BC's control

sometimes, a good thing takes a little while to catch on.

igo,

some times

... and will we see you in the chat channel sometime soon igo? lol

i was there once w/Koan, but i've been busy passin' BCs good word elswhere

got the chatroom up now does,nt seem to be anyone there
although will leave it running and see

after a while there was quite a few people arriving(just call me the pied piper )
joking aside when people join and introduce themselves the people like myself who welcome them could post a link for the chat room like thismaybe the chatroom may get more and more busy, anyway just an idea

To be honest I have no idea what you mean by that mz30...on the last post.

-Steve

try and explain a bit better when new members join and post in the introduction forum if people who use the chatroom post back e.g

hi such and such welcome to b.c
could i please direct you to our new user orienttion center
and also would like to make you aware of our wonderfulchatroom
it took me a few weeks here before i learned of the exsistence of the chatroom
this way new members are informed straight away

Hmmm

mz30 I am not sure at all that you have connected correctly to the bc chatroom. Did you use an irc client? Or have you used the java applet that the site here provides. It just seems a bit odd that you would find noone there at all.. at any given time there are between 20 and 30 people there.

hi pandy when i done my original post i just could not see any chat after i started chatting replies were there
i was actually speaking to people my posts after that were intended to try and spread the word
lets try and get hundreds of people there

whats a good free IRC client to run this on (the java app anit workin the greatest for me)

The bottom section of post #2 under the heading "Chat Clients" gives a nice list.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic3616.html

Also this link: How To Use Icechat To Join The Bleepingcomputer Chatroom, Also tells how to configure IceChat.