Chat with us on IRC or Discord!

[Wally]

We have an IRC Channel on irc.libera.chat!!

#dragonbox-pyra - General chat
#dragonbox-dev - Developer chat, please keep it dev only
#dragonbox-games - For fun and games, Annoy dTal if you want any more games

We also have #openpandora but I think I might deprecate this and redirect to #dragonbox-pyra to keep everyone together.

Cloaks
We're also setup as an official group on Libera too so you are able to get a user cloak if you would like one, please PM me on the server and I can have the cloak applied for you:

The cloak must be in this format: (* is wildcard )

dragonbox/*/*
openpandora/*/*


We also have a Discord server https://discord.gg/AbtPfGK (which ED has graciously setup for us)

 

[levi]

Oh, you have the cloaks set up already. I guess I need a nickserv account to use those anyway, so I'll look into reapplying for one of those; there are already other channels I've tried to join which kick me out because I'm unregistered.

 

[illwieckz]

Another alternative I've set on channels I'm OP for is the +q $~a mode that allows unregistered people to join but not to talk. An OP can manually allow them to talk (and they can ask for it privately). Also with this mode you'll still see the spambot instances joining and being K-lined because of spam so you know if the spam campaign is still going on or not.

 

[Wally]

We also have a discord server as above

 

[Wally]

Note: The IRC Channel is being migrated across to Libera.Chat and channel permisisons are being set.

 

[comradekingu]

Why not make it #pyra and #pandora so that it is nice and easy.

 

[FBnil]

Maybe because Xenoblade fans and people that need support for Pandora music and radio app will join and start asking questions?

 

[levi]

So to connect, we use the existing channel names at url 'irc.libera.chat'. I assume cloaks won't transition over, are they even supported on the libera.chat network?

 

[Binky]

So to connect, we use the existing channel names at url 'libera.chat'. I assume cloaks won't transition over, are they even supported on the libera.chat network?

Libera definitely supports cloaks, but all the user/channel data was left behind on Freenode; you'll want a new NickServ account, etcetera.

 

[Wally]

A small update:

Freenode decided our community was against it's terms of services due to having "Moved to Libera.Chat" in the topic.. and has closed all channels.

I will not be renewing the channels and to protect our users I will be removing the namespaces completely.

So if you have a shiny dragonbox / openpandora cloak etc on Freenode you will need a new cloak if you don't have one.

 

[ClockworkCoder]

Freenode decided our community was against it's terms of services due to having "Moved to Libera.Chat" in the topic.. and has closed all channels

That sounds so much like sour grapes.

 

[Wally]

You're not wrong. One minute we had the channel, next minute a bot wiped through the entire network, wiping out over 700 channels. Including major ones like #ubuntu and #gcc..

Nobody is happy

 

[FBnil]

We (together with other 700 channels) made it to slasdot, which mentions the changes from freenode to libera

Alterslash archive for 2021-May-29

Alterslash picks the best 5 comments from each of the day’s Slashdot stories, and presents them on a single page for easy reading.

alterslash.org

 

[levi]

I found out yesterday that trying to connect to libera.chat at port 6697 or 7000 didn't work. I discovered today that the correct url to use is irc.libera.chat. I've updated my post above.

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all

@Wally : is https://discord.gg/AbtPfGK still the official Discord channel ? I'm already using Discord for another purpose (online multiplayer Dreamcast gaming). Could I join @EvilDragon server from there with my existing credentials or do I have to create a new account ?

Cheers, Magic Sam

 

[Wally]

Yessir, you can join as many servers you like with a single account and can change your nickname for different servers too!

 

[TrashyMG]

I haven't been on IRC in a while, I'm sure everything is i fine in the IRC community right?

 

[Wally]

Yeah people are still there.. Especially @aTc

 

[Bosbeetle]

I still don't dare to go on discord at work, since we gave a course on it, it feels like all our students are on there too. IRC is so archaic no student will touch it with a stick

 

[rygD]

We have a bot that links the discord server and the irc channel