lucky! I was just wondering if there were any instructables chat room mods at least I'm on good terms with gmjhowe

Isn't Bumpus also a mod?

he is, appointed by jake

Congrats on the promotion! =]

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that was the worst mistake you ever have made

you said racist stuff...

NO BUMPUS IS NOT A MOD, THATS LIKE SAYING CHUCK NORRIS CAN'T GIVE YOU A ROUNDHOUSE KICK TO THE FACE!

lol @ CarstalkerZ....

What the?

someone is just jealous

Lol

My comment reply to yours got deleted................
^{I bet this will too}

of course he cant,hes the good guy

Are you moaning about the sound-tracks on people's videos?

If so, you picked the wrong topic - this is a topic about a chat-room that works off-site.

I suggest you start a new topic, as I do not recall the subject being raised before.

tittys!!!

Where?!

ya thats like the same thing thats nearly goin on for me..

sme

its the mibbit one im having problems with

Something going on with mibbit that freenode did not like so it banned connections from there.

.  That's why I didn't give you a link to Mibbit. ;)

ARGG!!!

Same.

ditto

I believe the IRC channel have blocked the Mibbit web client because too many spammers were using it, or something like that. I found an alternative web client a while back but that also got blocked (for "racism"). I suspect the web client channels the traffic to the IRC channel through a particular IP or IP range, which was blocked for someone being racist on it so now the whole web client doesn't work. The easiest solution is to install a client on your computer, like mIRC or Pidgin or something.

tried to get to the chatroom through mirc but kept getting diconnected. Said a software disconnect but I've been on two other servers tonight with no problems. Does the channel not like mirc either. I think it was attempting to join through port 7000. Could that be the problem? Mirc listed the freenode server in its server list

Here is a webchat from Freenode themselves:
<iframe src="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=instructables" width="647" height="400"></iframe>

same prob

get back in here!

Aha, I have the same problem!

It's a bug which needs to be fixed. Try http://webchat.freenode.net as a web workaround.
Enter username and #instructables for the channel.

After a bit of research, I found out that Freenode closed connections to Mibbit due to abuse. The alternate URL is timing out as well, so that makes the IRC useless.

<iframe src="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=instructables" width="647" height="400"></iframe> If an admin adds this,it will work.

It's timing out.

Dangit, im getting a page load error. "The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression."

yeah, it says "terminated"?

web.freenode.net still works

Flagged as "inappropriate" since it has nothing to do with the forum topic. Please see my other response to your duplicated post.

Wow, only 3 years old, amazing.

Oh wait, you mean you have been "around for 3 years" ...sorry, my mistake ;-)

Hi, Janesan.

(You'll get more people saying hello if you start a new topic (see the Submit button at the top of every page, or the New Topic button at the top of the list of topics), or join in the actual chatroom).

>Kiteman<

101 Darn

its full it takes forever to load

i know it has become very popular, i wasnt expecting it.

i was

meet me at my orangeboard to chat

You can also join via:<br /><a href="http://www.meebo.com/room/instructableschat/">www.meebo.com/room/instructableschat/</a><br />

‮One more thought:
I did not cause the chat to be reversed in the first place.  I just simply looked it up and fixed it...  And fooled around a bit...  I try to put my toys away after I used them....

Look at my other comment, the one about other irc clients.

Ummm yeah...

Same here, chat is closed?

I dunno. I'll use chatzilla from now on if thats the problem.

Same....

It had over 1000 6 months ago, but admins deleted comments to the point where it got to 100 comments.

OMG that's alot!

Yeah, it was fun too :P

I'm using the bottom box and it seems to work fine, maybe find an external irc client?

its tagged as sticky, so it stays at the top, and replys don't work bec uase of that

whats sticky?

making the comment formatted so that it stays at the top, and because of that it doesnt have a reply button