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+title = "This site now has an IRC channel"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-11-20T20:22:00+01:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+Abstract = "on PC gaming and it's demise"
+Listening = "Michael Land - Curse of Monkey Island OST"
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+My IP was unbanned from libera.chat (I wasn't the one who got banned!), so I want to use it more.
+After all, where else am I meet with my cyberpals?
+Discord?
+Let's have some self respect!
+
+One of ways to achieve that is to have an IRC channel for this site.
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+**The official IRC channel for crys.site is <span class="underline">##cryschan</span> on libera.chat**
+
+----
+
+IRC sure has changed since I used it.
+I had a brief period of using it earlier this year, but it ended when my ISP changed my IP to a banned one.
+But I've learned that now:
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+-   You can register a nick on a server. It's done via "nameserver"
+-   You can register a channel, so no hostile takeover is possible. It's done via "chanserv"
+-   You can have persistent connection with multiple clients attached. It's done via proxy service called "bouncer"
+-   All the good, old clients still work
+-   There's still a couple of hundred thousand people using IRC at any given moment