Context: In IRC, each user has a username, typically preceded by an "@" unless a client removes it for aesthetic purposes. Each user would, after creating a username, join a channel, which is listed as "#[channel name]". "/" initiates commands. For instance, "/join #twokinds", or "/nick Bell".Technic[Bot] wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 1:28 amI really never got into IRC even back it is heyday.Bellhead wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 11:47 pm Same. Even the official Twokinds IRC chat is pretty dead... and nobody there even talks about the comic beyond "Oh hey, there's a new page?"
Still get the noobs, though. Come in, say hi, leave 40 seconds later. I remember when #2K became a thing, though... it was supposed to be solely about the comic, storyline, characters, etc... Then the great master Bumpersam moved that to discord too. I'm still in it, but I'm one of only two, and nobody ever comes in.
But yeah. I'll be here as long as Tom keeps posting, and the server holds out. The great Turaiel would be the only one who could stop my attendance now. muahaha.
Also excuse my ignorance but. What is a #2K?
Basic commands like that are the foundation for how to do stuff, but basically that's it. #twokinds is the official IRC chatroom, but not much has happened in there since... well, at least the last 10 years. And even then, they almost never discussed the comic. When I was but a young noob of these hallowed halls, Bumpersam decided to create the Twokinds Storyline Chatroom, #2K, for discussions of characters, plotlines, theories, etc. The original forum thread can still be found, if you dig back far enough. I have that channel open in my IRC client 24/7, so if anyone says anything, I'll see it when I check.
The "CHAT" link on the main page will work for that, but the channel would need be changed. Else, just go here: irc.nightstar.net, set a username, and set a channel.
IRC as a whole, from what I understand, became ~and to an extent, remains~ popular because it's an extremely low resource communication platform. Literally less lag than a phone call, and it uses such a ridiculously low amount of data that it works on even the slowest internet. It's literally text only, and with a character limit per message, so it was quite popular among the groups that used it way back when.
TL;DR: IRC rant.