IRC
From Post-Apocalyptic RPG wiki
The article covers all aspects that are related to the project's IRC channel.
You can join the IRC channel right now.
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Purpose of the channel
- Real time developer communication
- Easiest way to stay in regular contact for the currently active developers
- Community interaction
Pointers
- Be outspoken. There is no need to be shy. It's easy to overlook new channel guests who just join the channel but don't say a word. A simple "Hi my <name> is", often does wonders.
- Be patient. A popular misconception of IRC is that people will reply within 10 seconds to new people who just joined the channel. If you're outspoken and a bit patient, you'll get the attention of one of the developers. Often rather within 10 minutes, not within 10 seconds though.
Address
- Network: freenode
- Server: irc.freenode.net
- Port: 6667
- Channel: #parpg
- Direct link (only works with some clients): irc://freenode/parpg
Browser-based IRC client
Here you can join the #parpg channel inside the web browser
Channel logs
We decided to set up an IRC logging bot to avoid missing any important discussion that takes place on the channel. The logs are currently not password protected and can be found here: http://logs.parpg.net
Pastebins
It's often useful to share code snippets or log files on the channel. Pastebins provide an easy way to exchange these kind of snippets without flooding the IRC channel. Simply paste the URL of your pasted text into the channel instead of the text itself. You can use the following sites for the purpose: