Janna (aka karalianne), ML of Canada:: Saskatchewan:: Saskatoon, and Matthew (aka utoxin), ML of Utah County, provide IRC-based chat rooms for all of the NaNoWriMo regions. Historically, Naperville has used an XMPP (Jabber) based chat room (as provided by Dreamhost); unfortunately, there do not appear to be any good jabber clients for Chromebooks (and the jabber server provided by Dreamhost is very old and does not support http-binding, so we can't utilize modern javascript clients like converse.js or ajaxber). Because of this, as of 2014-10-19, I propose we deprecate the jabber chatroom and instead move to the Chat NaNo service provided by Janna.
Please give the following a try; if it proves to be too difficult, we can go back to the jabber chat. But I think that Katherine may be right that it is time to align with what other regions are using.
How to register
If you used the chat rooms last year you should go to the login page. New users need to register first.
This is probably the better path to take--dedicated clients usually perform better than web clients and have more features. pidgin is a very good multi-platform client. Byrd IRC client for Google Chrome might work well for Chromebooks.
If you prefer a client to Mibbit, you need to point your client at irc.kydance.net, port 6667, and login using the name you registered at the first URL given.
If you are logging in using a client, you will need to enter your password when you do so. The command for this is /ns identify PASSWORD where you change PASSWORD to your actual password that you registered with.
Right-click the new buddy (NickServ) and click "Add Buddy Pounce" to create a new pounce
Make sure "Signs on" is the only checked box in the "Pounce When Buddy..." section
Make sure "Send a message" is checked under "Action"
Enter the message: identifymypassword
Make sure "Recurring" is checked beneath "Options" or the pounce will work only once
Click Save to save the pounce.
IMPORTANT: Note that you do not include '/msg nickname' as part of the message in the pounce.
If you need help
Any problems with the process should be directed to chatnano.registrar@gmail.com. Please include Nick, password, region, and chat room name in the e-mail.
If you don't want to be distracted during word wars, you might like to hang out in the bottom three rooms in this list. They're all about the writing!
If anyone is annoyed with Timmy's constant talking (you'll understand once you start chatting for awhile), type !ignore soft This lets you still use Timmy's other commands, but without him randomly talking to you when you're just chatting. Also, for a full list of commands (there's a lot of them), type !help
I use AndChat. It works and been around for years. That's it's two biggest pluses. I have tested it on the naperwrimo irc channel and it works. You can have it save your login password if you write "/identify PASSWORD" in your auto run list under the network settings (replace PASSWORD with your password).
So since it been a few years since I've done the IRC thing, I downloaded Pidgin and got all registered and got the password verify down. Thing is how do I get to the channel everyone will be on? There a way for me to do that? I vaguely remember being able to do it with IRC years back (when I used to do online roleplays), but I don't know how to get it set up with this.
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slrphebos wrote:So since it been a few years since I've done the IRC thing, I downloaded Pidgin and got all registered and got the password verify down. Thing is how do I get to the channel everyone will be on? There a way for me to do that? I vaguely remember being able to do it with IRC years back (when I used to do online roleplays), but I don't know how to get it set up with this.
You want to Add Chat Room in Pidgin (in the Buddy window). The chat room you want to add is #naperwrimo -- once it is added, you can right click on it to set it to automatically join the room when you log in.
By the way, I would encourage folks who want to see greater participation in online write-ins to post in this thread specific dates and times when they will be online. I suspect that quite a few folks are available/interested but might get discouraged if no one is online when they join and then leave.
KatherineWriting wrote:People don't seem to be using this. I know when I log in, there never seems to be anyone around, or if they are, they're in a word war.
I miss the timestamps on posts.
And the history.
Should we go back to jabber chats?
Or try google hangouts?
Google hangouts aren't persistent. People can't just join them--they have to be invited. They also have limits on numbers of users.
Jabber... well, I know it was difficult for some people to set up their accounts and because of limitations with the Dreamhost jabber server, there aren't as many clients as there are for IRC (on other platforms).
What I could do (what I had once planned to do) is to put bots in each room and have them communicate between them...
I'm at the Starbucks in Lemont now and will be in the chat for another hour or so as I try to get my words in. Someone come join me and we can word war!
Quick links (full details are below, but if you're in a hurry, here's what you need to do to get on the site.)
Register at:http://chatnano.net/IrcUsers/register_wrimo
(please use your NaNo handle for a nickname, no spaces in it, and select our region: USA :: Illinois :: Naperville)
Then login via web browserathttp://chatnano.net/IrcUsers/login
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Original Post
Regional IRC Chatroom
Janna (aka karalianne), ML of Canada:: Saskatchewan:: Saskatoon, and Matthew (aka utoxin), ML of Utah County, provide IRC-based chat rooms for all of the NaNoWriMo regions. Historically, Naperville has used an XMPP (Jabber) based chat room (as provided by Dreamhost); unfortunately, there do not appear to be any good jabber clients for Chromebooks (and the jabber server provided by Dreamhost is very old and does not support http-binding, so we can't utilize modern javascript clients like converse.js or ajaxber). Because of this, as of 2014-10-19, I propose we deprecate the jabber chatroom and instead move to the Chat NaNo service provided by Janna.
Please give the following a try; if it proves to be too difficult, we can go back to the jabber chat. But I think that Katherine may be right that it is time to align with what other regions are using.
How to register
If you used the chat rooms last year you should go to the login page. New users need to register first.
To register, go to this URL: http://chatnano.net/IrcUsers/register_wrimo
Logging in via your web browser
Once you are registered you ALWAYS login at http://chatnano.net/IrcUsers/login
Put in the Nick and password you registered with.
Logging in via a dedicated client
This is probably the better path to take--dedicated clients usually perform better than web clients and have more features. pidgin is a very good multi-platform client. Byrd IRC client for Google Chrome might work well for Chromebooks.
If you prefer a client to Mibbit, you need to point your client at irc.kydance.net, port 6667, and login using the name you registered at the first URL given.
If you are logging in using a client, you will need to enter your password when you do so. The command for this is /ns identify PASSWORD where you change PASSWORD to your actual password that you registered with.
With pidgin, it is possible to automate this step:
identify mypassword
IMPORTANT: Note that you do not include '/msg nickname' as part of the message in the pounce.
If you need help
Any problems with the process should be directed to chatnano.registrar@gmail.com. Please include Nick, password, region, and chat room name in the e-mail.
If you don't want to be distracted during word wars, you might like to hang out in the bottom three rooms in this list. They're all about the writing!
Other regions
Also, if you're curious about other regions' channels, have a look at the list on this page: http://chatnano.net/IrcUsers/regions
To join a room, log into the chat and then type /join #CHANNEL where you change CHANNEL to the name of the room.
wordwar bot
There is a wordwar bot called Timmy. Here are the wordwar commands: Since it has been requested: is all of Timmy's commands.
YES.YES.
IRC CHAT.
This makes me so happy because I'm writing on a tablet this year and I wasn't sure how I was going to get my chat fix. I'm psyched!
Yay! IRC!
If anyone is annoyed with Timmy's constant talking (you'll understand once you start chatting for awhile), type !ignore soft This lets you still use Timmy's other commands, but without him randomly talking to you when you're just chatting. Also, for a full list of commands (there's a lot of them), type !help
Cansomeone recommend an Android client?
By the by, this was soooooo easy.
A minute to register, and then I was there!
Try it, you'll like it. :)
You made that look harder than it was.
Evil is not in the ends but in the means.
I just wanted to be thorough--but if you have any suggestions for streamlining the instructions, please do share. I'll be happy to update them :-)
--Tim
Took less than 5 Minutes to Register and get signed-in! Thank you! This looks very helpful! =)
It doesn't need to be trimmed down or simplified I just thought by looking at all the instructions it would be less easy.
Evil is not in the ends but in the means.
So since it been a few years since I've done the IRC thing, I downloaded Pidgin and got all registered and got the password verify down. Thing is how do I get to the channel everyone will be on? There a way for me to do that? I vaguely remember being able to do it with IRC years back (when I used to do online roleplays), but I don't know how to get it set up with this.
You want to Add Chat Room in Pidgin (in the Buddy window). The chat room you want to add is #naperwrimo -- once it is added, you can right click on it to set it to automatically join the room when you log in.
Yay! I can be around to pester the peeples!
By the way, I would encourage folks who want to see greater participation in online write-ins to post in this thread specific dates and times when they will be online. I suspect that quite a few folks are available/interested but might get discouraged if no one is online when they join and then leave.
--Tim
People don't seem to be using this. I know when I log in, there never seems to be anyone around, or if they are, they're in a word war.
I miss the timestamps on posts.
And the history.
Should we go back to jabber chats?
Or try goggle hangouts?
Google hangouts aren't persistent. People can't just join them--they have to be invited. They also have limits on numbers of users.
Jabber... well, I know it was difficult for some people to set up their accounts and because of limitations with the Dreamhost jabber server, there aren't as many clients as there are for IRC (on other platforms).
What I could do (what I had once planned to do) is to put bots in each room and have them communicate between them...
But not this week and maybe not this month.
Okay. I know you suggested that people post when they were on IRC, but I haven't seen that happening. But then, I don't do that either. :)
Maybe we should state what time it is when we join, and an estimate of how long we'll be on, that way we won't get so many near-misses.
Just a thought.
And I understand completely not worrying about bots right now. Get back to your writing.
I will host a virtual write-in tonight on theIRC chat from 8-10 pm.
--Tim
I'll be there tonight Tim. Probably not til about 8:30 though. :)
Thanks to everyone for the word wars tonight! Great progress and congrats to Melinda for making it over 50K
Be sure to log into our wordcount spreadsheet.
I will definitely be on from 8-9 pm CST (and maybe beyond then).
I'll try to get on tonight (unless my editor calls). I need something to make me focus and catch up!
I'm at the Starbucks in Lemont now and will be in the chat for another hour or so as I try to get my words in. Someone come join me and we can word war!
I'm on the chat if anyone wants to join in. I NEED 2000 words tonight 'cause I NEED TO GET THE PENGUIN!!!!