23
Oct

Notable channels

Regulars of AustNet have always heard of #Melbourne, #Perth, #Brisbane and the like, but have you heard of these little gems?

#GLOBAL -- An inter-connect channel whereby chatters from all networks can come together!

http://ircglobal.org

#irchorseracing -- RPG style horse racing game. In-depth, structured, and very fun with a long standing community.

http://www.irchorseracing.net

22
Jun

Social Media, and other such things

Like us on Facebook & Follow us on Twitter; click "Read More" for the full scoop




13
May

channel statistics

The AustNet website now hosts irc chat statistics for a number of the more popular channels on AustNet.
These stats provide information about fun and interesting occurrences in our most popular chat channels,
and you can view these channel statistics (along with network statistics) over at our stats
page.

If you are interested in having channel statistics offered in your channel too, please e-mail me

12
May

New AustNet website

After many years of using the wordpress framework for delivering and moderating content on the AustNet website,
with great pleasure we are happy to announce the new AustNet website. Whilst the initial framework has been
set up, there are additional plans in store to improve the functionality of the site and offer regularly updates of the
happenings on AustNet.

Please stay tuned.

12
May

pidgin - multi-platform chat

pidgin is a multi-platform chat program, and one of the protocols it uses is IRC.

To ensure that your experience on AustNet with pidgen is made easier, there is some useful information you should
be aware of to utilise the automatic login function;

Just use the text replacement plugin on the tools menu, add custom text in the "you type" box saying something along the
lines of "austnetID", and then type in the "replaced by" text box with the following

/msg NickOP identify YOURPASSWDHERE

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