Whats up with chat

krib · Post by **krib** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:38 am

Hey all its me krib, i just got one question why is chat down.

another thing it might not be relevant, why does it say domain down.

NobodyToYou · Post by **NobodyToYou** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:57 am

Hi.
Being honest... I have no idea. I don't have anything to do with chat, so I am ignorant about how the whole thing works. But I will take your question over to the staff board, cause I know that we at least used to have people that were on staff for both, so maybe they know.

krib · Post by **krib** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:10 am

Thank you very much

Post by **swirlish** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:09 pm

The address is http://buschat.info - the domain page pops up because the chat was moved (because of technical stuff I don't really understand) If you go to that link, it should work or you can use any java applet/webclient (I use www.ircatwork.com from school for example, I know www.shadowfire.org has one too)

If you want to use an IRC client (a separate program to access the IRC networks), I recommend mIRC (www.mirc.com) but that's mostly because I've used it for 10+ years and I love it. There's a bunch of others, xchat is one (google it)

When you've set up an irc client, you need to log on to Shadowfire (which is the network #bus is on). Choose Shadowfire from the drop down menu or type /server irc.shadowfire.org

Once you're on the server, type /join #bus si (where #bus is the channel name and "si" is the password, or the key)

If you have any problems, please let me know and I will try to help!

Mia

krib · Post by **krib** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:44 pm

Thanks all of you for the help you have given me

Post by **Spidey** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:41 pm

Mia I tried to get on last night and it said the network was unreachable. Know what was going on with that? I use XChat Aqua on Leopard.

Post by **swirlish** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:01 pm

Electric Prophet wrote:Mia I tried to get on last night and it said the network was unreachable. Know what was going on with that? I use XChat Aqua on Leopard.

No clue, but just try again. Sometimes the network (Shadowfire) has problems or needs to be rebooted. It almost never lasts long, so just try again in a few minutes. Or try another way of connecting (buschat.info or www.mibbit.com or www.shadowfire.org or www.ircatwork.com or a chat client) It might not help but it's worth a shot. Sometimes one of the sites/client is causing the problem.

If you're having problems, you can either pm me here, on #bus or e-mail me on [e-mail address removed] I don't know a lot about technical stuff, but I can almost always find out.

Mia

pinky · Post by **pinky** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:55 pm

thank you Mia, i went to chat for the first time today using mibbit and had lots of fun chatting

Post by **swirlish** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:48 am

I'm so glad to see you all on there

Mia

Roxi · Post by **Roxi** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:52 pm

ok... I can get on with mibbit. It says #bus(1) in my one tab...so I think I am on. How do I chat with other people. There doesn't seem to be a list of who is online or anything... idk, maybe I have just been on at wierd times when no-one else has been. should other people's usernames show up anywhere on my screen ?

Post by **swirlish** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:15 pm

The problem with mibbit is that there's nowhere to type the password to a channel when you're joining (at least I haven't found it, but admittedly I haven't looked all that thoroughly). You need a password to join #bus. So when you click "go" after typing #bus as your channel, mibbit will log you on to Shadowfire (the server, you'll see a bunch of text coming up) and then try to log on to #bus but fail because it requires a password. It will say something like "#bus: Couldn't join channel" or similiar. Just type /join #bus si in the bar just under the text and hit enter. Now you should be in the channel and see a list of nicks. There are always people in there, although everyone is not active.

Another thing, make sure you read the rules for the channel. They can be found at http://buschat.info Most of them are similiar to those on the boards, but some are different. The channel is run by different people than the board staff (obviously, some overlap, like me and emark for example). The moderators on #bus are called "Super Operators" (which is quite a ridiculous term) or SOPs. They have an & before their names in the nicklist.

Using http://buschat.info to log on to chat might be easier and faster. I'll check tomorrow. My computer is so slow that loading the needed Java applet takes forever, that's why I prefer mibbit.

I did a step by step walkthrough for mibbit, if anyone is having problems. And just let me know if you have questions.

Mia

myfriendscallmeerika · Post by **myfriendscallmeerika** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:57 am

just fyi for any staff who might be interested, i went to bus chat a few weeks back...and felt really ganged up on. some of the chatters were rude and even made fun of me (and it was not in good fun, i promise).

ive always enjoyed buschat but my last experience there upset me. definately not an enviroment full of support and understanding.

so anywho, not trying to start crap

just thought the mods might wanna know.

NobodyToYou · Post by **NobodyToYou** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:17 am

Mia will have to pass that on...

The board staff and the chat staff are almost entirely seperate, except a couple people who do both. So while they certainly need to know if people are behaving inappropriately, it isn't something the staff here have any direct control over... only chat staff could help with that.

But I am sorry you had a bad experience there. It really stinks to be looking for help and get the opposite.

myfriendscallmeerika · Post by **myfriendscallmeerika** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 7:25 am

yea i noticed the board and the chat were pretty seperate but it looked like perhaps mia does both?

yea it did stink, but im over it.

Post by **swirlish** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:42 am

myfriendscallmeerika wrote:yea i noticed the board and the chat were pretty seperate but it looked like perhaps mia does both?

yea it did stink, but im over it.

Pm me and we can talk about it? If you have logs or remember when it was, that's even better so I can go back and look.

Anywa, pm me!

Mia

PassingCloud · Post by **PassingCloud** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:35 pm

db2, we can discuss your ban in pm. either way it is not appropriate for the board, because the board has almost nothign to do with the chat.

take care.
-cloudya

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