#drupal-au IRC in your favourite web browser (as long as it's firefox)

Posted by rimian on July 26, 2009 at 10:04am

When I mentioned the #drupal-au IRC channel to a work buddy, he didn't believe that people still used IRC as it's too old. I guess IRC clients are not as prevalent now that we have so many different channels, social networking sites, SMS and Chat clients at our fingertips.

I'm on a Mac and I still haven't worked out what IRC client to use but lucky for me there is good one that plugs into Firefox. Do a search for in your addons for Chatzilla. It's easy to use and will get you chatting to Drupal devs right away. Ask anything anytime Drupal related and you probably get a helpful answer.

When Chatzilla opens click on freenode and then type /join #drupal-au.

See you there!

Comments

Freenode also now offer a

Posted by mig5 on July 26, 2009 at 10:44am

Freenode also now offer a webchat service

http://webchat.freenode.net

Now if only we had some conversation in the channel, it'd almost be worth it :)

Alternatively

Posted by lyricnz on July 26, 2009 at 10:52am

Alternatively http://mibbit.com offers a pretty good in-page IRC, which you can setup on a page to join to the right network and channels. http://www.drupalchat.net/ is one of these...

Simon Roberts
Taniwha Solutions

PS: there's lots of good IRC

Posted by lyricnz on July 26, 2009 at 10:56am

PS: there's lots of good IRC clients on Mac. Colloquy is the most common, I suspect, but it's a touch on the bloaty side. I've also tried LimeChat, which seems nice and fast.... But I'm lazy, and Colloquy is already setup.

Simon Roberts
Taniwha Solutions