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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.

**The official IRC channel for crys.site is <span class="underline">##cryschan</span> on libera.chat**

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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:

-   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