Electronics Chat Rooms - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: AllTheGearNoIdea
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 04:51:48 pm
content: I have today trying to setup an old computer and been struggling. I remember back in the day chat rooms were popular and although they could on the whole be Vile and toxic places they could also be very useful to have quick exchanges of information with people wanting to post in real time.I was wondering if there was any active technology based chat rooms still around and if there would be an appetite for such a thing today.I quite enjoy chatting on some streaming YouTube events and will likely say hello to Defpom and some other friends later on his channel.I think it may be enjoyable to have a stream to look at as I’m often in the workshop on my own and it would be a good way to catch up or just rag chew from time to time and get some instant help.It may be this has been replaced with some other interweb forum gizmo I’m not aware of, but does anything like this still exist. It wouldn’t be a replacement for this type Of in-depth exchange forum but it may complement it.Regards Chris

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 04:58:57 pm
content: Isn't the IRC here okay?https://www.eevblog.com/chat/There are those free irc clients such as x-chat and pigdin and many more.

author: e100
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 05:01:50 pm
content: I tried using the Discord app. The main problem is that there's still no elegant way of dealing with multiple conversations so you end up with a linear stream of interleaved dialog which is difficult to read.

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 05:04:14 pm
content: Try looking for various chat rooms on Mastodon.https://mastodon.social/tags/electronics

author: AllTheGearNoIdea
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 05:20:20 pm
content: IRC chat room ? I didn’t even know we had one here. Better check it out now [face palm]Thanks

author: AllTheGearNoIdea
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 05:43:32 pm
content: Just been poking around with those chat forum. Could be a time zone thing but there was only me in there. That or everyone else left when I arrived

author: rstofer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 07:27:22 pm
content: Quote from: AllTheGearNoIdea on November 10, 2018, 05:43:32 pmI would think that real-time interactive chats are a dead issue. There's 8 hours difference between our time zones so we 'might' be online at the same time but the odds are against it.eevblog is about a friendly as it gets. There are many forums related to specific topics plus this General->Chat forum.It's 11:26 AM here so it's 7:26 PM in the UK and 6:26 AM in Sydney so there is some overlap.

author: DimitriP
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 07:49:29 pm
content: Get yourself ia irc clienthttps://www.mirc.com/, connect to undernet .org,park onto an appropriately named channel and see who shows up

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 08:26:16 pm
content: Quote from: DimitriP on November 10, 2018, 07:49:29 pmOr if you don't want to pay after your trial expires, use HexChat.

author: AllTheGearNoIdea
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 09:32:58 pm
content: Just been on the IRC here. Had a fantastic time thanks so much everyone.Regards Chris