Hi Stephan and all,
The chat room linked above isn't very popular it seems, while the channel #DeeperBlue on irc.freenode.net by now has found a couple of regulars and even a bot to play with.
My suggestion is to link to that channel directly from DB and use freenode for our purposes. Since there are people there already, more will take a look and it will be a busy little place in no time (I guess
)
For a direct link from Here to IRC, something like
cgi:irc could be used. Check out
IRC@work to see what it looks like. You can join the network from there and play with gills for a bit.
EDIT:
Note: When using IRC@work, You have to change the server to
irc.freenode.net and the channel to
#DeeperBlue.
Apart from the channel being populated already, one has the choice which software to use to connect with the network. (And there's lots. xchat/gaim/mIRC, you name it...)
I only founded the channel because the software provided here wouldn't work for me and I couldn't connect to that chat with any other (without some hacking, that is).
Free software for free divers, I say.
The topic of how to get more people into real-time conversations has been discussed on #DeeperBlue for quite some time now.
What do You think?
Greetings,
Richard
