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Job

Why'd it go?

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I remember back in the day when Doomworld hosted a Doom chat directly on the website. That was fantastic. But now a person has to go to the irc rooms, namely #zdoom that I recall, to do this. And one can't forget that the allowance of those rooms is subject to another person's whims. I'm sure there's a fairly reasonable explanation for the discontinuation of the chat room but, still, it'd be nice to have it back.

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You mean the web applet that automatically accessed a chosen IRC channel.

I think it was removed either because the applet sucked, or the channels sucked.

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@gatewatcher : lol

but, the irc thingy isnt down. I was just on it for a few seconds for the speemaping thing - i think im a little off time wise tho...like a few hours :P

EDIT: Make that one hour. :P

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Job said:

I'm sure there's a fairly reasonable explanation for the discontinuation of the chat room but, still, it'd be nice to have it back.

AndrewB said:

I think it was removed either because the applet sucked, or the channels sucked.

Oh.

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i never recall many people useing it. infact i checked it out once and there where no active people in it. so i take it the room sucked or the applet, most web based do suck, just use the IRC.

however i think they should have a link on here or info listing the server and channle

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ling thought that abusing chat newbies didn't reflect nicely on dw as a whole

edit: also, the channel was a separate entity from doomworld but mostly everyone outside the channel assumed the channel was official doomworld territory which got annoying a few times

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The IRC channel mentioned on the Contact Info page is the right room, but wrong network. #zdoom is on irc.oftc.net, not irc.freenode.net. Even though it is owned and run by myself, it is in no way an official Doomworld IRC channel.

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WTH...I know there used to be a link that you could click on that would bring #doom up in jIRC. I used to use that to get on IRC before I really knew a thing about IRC. :P But was there a link to #dw when it was around or something (which I think WAS an official DoomWorld channel, set up by Pritch or something).

Anyway, I dont see what is wrong with #zdoom. The only problem right now is with Mantra and his constant trolling, but I think everyoine has him on ignore anyway. Heh.

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