New Chat Room

Thanks to some friendly folks from the FrogPants community and
The Morning Stream chat (jdhore, Malynor, & Kevin) and of course Thinstack.net, I have a new chat room!  Previously, I had been using the default Ustream chat room. Lately I have been really frustrated with the need for multiple logins per session as well as missed messages.

If you’ve been in the chat and thought I was ignoring you, I’m sorry!

The new IRC chat room is accesible through the webchat client embeded on the LIVE Stream page. I simply replaced the old Ustream chat. Previously, only those with a Ustream account could log in and chat.
Now anyone can join in!

If you prefer you can use your own IRC client. I happen to use Colloquy for Mac. Here is the connection info and some basics for the chat.

• Host (chat server): irc.thinstack.net
• Channel (room): #animafax
• If you log in through webchat, you will be given a random, numbered nickname starting with “STAR”
• To change your nickname, type “/nick newnick” (replace ‘newnick‘ with your desired name)
• To register your nickname (always have the same name) type, “/msg NickServ REGISTER password emailaddress” (replace ‘password’ and ‘emailaddress’ with appropriate info.)
• The next time you log in, click the “Login to Services” box and fill in your login and password.
• If you’re new to IRC (as I am) here are some basics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat