Children, you're doing IRC wrong.

[Mino]

Considering it's a forum and there's hardly anywhere else to make a proper announcement, I think it's just fine to have a thread made of it, and once it's served its use it can be disposed of, simple as that.

What I'm saying is that this isn't the sort of thing you should be chastising people for. They can use the forums/IRC in whatever non-rule-breaking way they want. It seems like it would be better to just ignore it. It's not like it causes any problems.

 

[Caius]

I have my irc set to beep me when there's a new message in #bt to try and remind myself to be active. When I get 15-20 beeps in a row it does tend to bother me.

 

[Mino]

I have my irc set to beep me when there's a new message in #bt to try and remind myself to be active. When I get 15-20 beeps in a row it does tend to bother me.

Okay great, but that's a decision you made.

 

[Zex]

I think the IRC takes away from the forums

 

[Jas0n]

I think the IRC takes away from the forums

I think you're wrong.

 

[Psychonaut]

okay, so i think this thread lost a lot of it's intended purpose: to inform people how exactly the chat room functions, or operates for tbt.

if you join, and want to talk with people, join, say hello, and leave a tab open while browsing the forums, or doing whatever you do. the chat isn't active all the time, if you expect a reply in less than a minute, you are indeed not doing it correctly.

i assume the thread was supposed to help ease the frustration of not having a 24/7 active chat, by telling the members what to expect from the chat room, instead of them having high hopes, which were consistently being let down.

 

[Caius]

okay, so i think this thread lost a lot of it's intended purpose: to inform people how exactly the chat room functions, or operates for tbt.

if you join, and want to talk with people, join, say hello, and leave a tab open while browsing the forums, or doing whatever you do. the chat isn't active all the time, if you expect a reply in less than a minute, you are indeed not doing it correctly.

i assume the thread was supposed to help ease the frustration of not having a 24/7 active chat, by telling the members what to expect from the chat room, instead of them having high hopes, which were consistently being let down.

^ Thanks. That's what I was going for.

 

[MasterC]

I have my irc set to beep me when there's a new message...

Is this an Op/half Op-only feature?

 

[Jas0n]

Is this an Op/half Op-only feature?

It's an option called "Highlighting" that most IRC applications have for all users. I think Mibbit has something similar too.

 

[Caius]

It's an option called "Highlighting" that most IRC applications have for all users. I think Mibbit has something similar too.

in MIRC you can set channels to beep when you recieve a message. I use it because I'm in 70 channels and the scrollbar covers belltree.

 

[Psychonaut]

Is this an Op/half Op-only feature?

no, i believe most IRC clients have them.

if you want to enable this and become an IRC regular, you should consider downloading an irc client, which works outside of the browser. a few notable ones are mIRC, and x-chat wdk (or something of that sort, the free version of x-chat, it's what i use personally, but there are a lot of irc clients. click.)

there's notification options for when someone types your name in chat, when a message is sent, when a specific phrase is typed (if you set it up that way) and plenty of other cool optimizations, if you feel like digging into it. the web client is really junk, but it works for everyone who doesn't feel like setting up an irc client.

irc information for those interested is: Channel - #belltree at irc.geekshed.net as the server. jas0n posted a very nice tutorial for at least one client, search his created topics if you'd like to read it.

 

[Caius]

Yeah he posted for mIRC which is the one most people use anyway because of the wide variety of options with it. Hell I even emulate windows on my macbook to use it.

 

[Psychonaut]

Yeah he posted for mIRC which is the one most people use

not me.

 

[Jas0n]

Yeah he posted for mIRC which is the one most people use anyway because of the wide variety of options with it. Hell I even emulate windows on my macbook to use it.

I just use Colloquy on my Mac, not quite as many scripting options as mIRC but it works well enough.

 

[Caius]

mIRC is flawed in scripting considering that you can only use mirc's scripting language for it.

I tried Xchat and I hated it. On windows it's okay, but on mac it's confusing. I'm not crazy about colloquy either because I use aliases.