Stop being so childish. They wouldn't delete a website that's existed for 10 years just because of a petty fight between a mod and a few people. You've been told this before; don't offer your advice if you don't have a damn idea what you're talking about.
Let's just all forget about this and go back into "normal" mode, okay? I didn't mean to cause trouble at all, I just wanted to help. I should really change and stop always trying to help people, since it NEVER ends well for me/anyone involved.
so, IRC is just a laggy chat channel? whats the attraction? and why is your avatar IRC x 40? are you a moderator? why moderate a chat channel? I just don't see the point. maybe im just too busy of a person to sit and type a ton of words to a bunch of people lol
IRC is a server that consists of as many channels as you want. anyone can make one on any server. I'm in over 20 channels currently, #BeamNG is thought to be a dead place because I and others only talk there when someone else needs help, we talk and laugh and play and cry and smile in other channels
ANy lag is likely connection related, or you are just using the web client linked above, you can manually whack the details into an actual client instead. IRC itself is about as lightweight as it gets. Even on dialup was not problematic for me. Pretty much anything with a TCP/IP stack can use it just fine. What was problematic were certain channels... After seeing people including admins hurling insults at a guy that just wants to make a multi seater sand rail (IRL too) and then continue to moan about it after he's left, no, thats not a pleasant community to be in. I have used other channels on other servers without issue. Maybe I've lucked out bad and only visited it at its roughest, but I have no intention of returning. The BeamNG channel on phase3gaming (it was offtopic on phase3 that was the most repulsive I've ever used) is moderated, but last time I visited was full of kiddies asking support related questions which while absolutely fine was not what I was after while relaxing for an afternoon. Its a chat room though. Internet Relay Chat. Hails back to the earlier days of consumer internet. Protocol it uses is pretty damn simple. A fully functioning (although crude) client can be written in 20 lines of python code, an absolute dead minimalist setup will fit in under 10 even but will have its quirks (namely will time out after a few seconds, but will get you in for long enough to drop a quick message in and get out). If all you're after is a little public web chat, IRC nails it, provided you dont have a totally hostile community (for which most are not at all, most seem quite welcoming actually). I am a member on another website that has its own "shoutbox" down the side that is quite popular, that sadly broke down during some server maintenance and so we started an IRC channel on freenode. Was rather nice, activity was pretty much limited to the regulars anyway, but did increase. Only thing it didnt offer quite so seamlessly is a view of whats been posted before you joined. There are workarounds, but you normally join straight into an empty screen whereas our shoutbox always displays the last posts anyway. Plugins can alleviate this, as can various logging tools.
Better than the wiki article on it I've just always hated how everyone saw IRC from the perspective of #offtopic. That place isn't as bad as it used to be, but it is still not that great; unless you know the people, then it's all just fun and games. The channel you get into when you use the web client is #BeamNG, a place with no swearing (it is filtered), no abuse, moderators that wont do crap for fun and best of all, me :^)
I've spent the last 2 hours trying to get this damn jammed printer cart out of it... I took out 5 screws and teared it apart to just find out all you had to do will pull one leaver and it came out. also to mention... I also now have a lot of ink on my hands. Don't give me a printer. Ever.
Printers are hell. They tend to cause more issues than they help and they always have some problem at the moment when you need it to work asap.
My old all-in-one HP hasn't failed me, other than the scanner never working. Although I rarely have to print things so it hasn't even been hooked up in years. I just use one of our other printers. I should set it up for internet printing..
