Returning to IRC. What is new on random chat, pen pal and language
learning?
reddit / irc

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felipebf · 2015-01-13 19:20

Back in 1999-2003 I used IRC a lot, using the client mIRC.
Recently I discovered a new world of pen pals and I exchange e-mails
with people all over the world. English is not my native language and
I am in fact learning a lot writing those e-mails.

Now I want to try instant chat. I am also learning french and would be
nice to find channels focused on instant chat in english, french or
portuguese. And if there is any place on IRC where pen pal people that
exchange e-mails meet, would be nice too.

So, first, what client do you recommend me? I want just chat, no
interactions and bot programming. What do you consider basic and good
for chat, on PC?

Also, what channels and servers do you know in this real of meeting
new people and language learning, english as second language?

Thanks in advance. I read other topics and freenode seems  a good
start, but too geeky. Maybe I am wrong.

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noeatnosleep · 2015-01-13 19:25

http://snoonet.org is a very friendly and largely english based IRC
network.

IRCCloud.com is one of the easiest clients to use on both phone and
PC, but you will need to log in with something like this:
http://webchat.snoonet.org and register your username on snoonet
first.

If you get online with the webchat link, feel free to send me a PM and
I'll help get you registered and set you up, as well as show you some
more popular channels. Send me a message by typing */msg noeatnosleep
hi* after you connect.

You can always invite your email penpals to join you on snoonet if
you'd like!

I'm an admin on snoonet and I'm almost always online. If I'm not
online you can always join the help channel by typing */join #help*
and ask for help there.

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pax967 · 2015-01-19 23:03

I think Hexchat is a spiffy IRC client: https://hexchat.github.io/ (if
you want the actual program thing and not webchat - which is generally
banned from most channels). Either that, or mIRC -
http://www.mirc.com/ - works as well.

If you find an IRC network where people are all nice and want to chat
without being awful to one another, then let me know.

PS: noeatnosleep is whoring himself spamming his network (which isn't
nearly as nice as he makes it sound).

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24cal · 2015-02-12 07:59

Just use [KiwiIRC](https://kiwiirc.com/client)

So easy and it has a great UI