Thread:Zeromaro/@comment-197.242.190.81-20150122091717/@comment-33646447-20150122132926

It's quite simple. You just go on a server and join a channel with a name of your own choosing. You generally type

/j #mazinger for example.

There's no point in hosting our own irc server. The main wikia channel uses free node server which is quite popular for projects, but we can also do it on another server too like Rizon generally host fansub, board communities on it.

You can use something like HexChat for windows and unix systems to connect to the server. The advantage with IRC is that you can make the chat app boot when you start your pc.

http://hexchat.github.io/

If you're on a mac, there's also limechat which is quite good too.

http://limechat.net/mac/

The details of the servers are generally given on the servers website for you to connect.

https://freenode.net/ http://rizon.net