Apolyton chat IRC

[Dis]

anyone know how to get this thing going?

Yes I know there are FAQ's and instructions how to do it, I've followed them.

I actually installed irc for other reasons, but I figured since I got it, I'll get onto the apolyton chat server which doesn't seem to be working.

I can connect to other servers (but some I have problems with), but not apolyton.net.

Here's the message I get:

apolyton.net- ***looking up your hostname...
apolyton.net- ***Found your hostname, cached
apolyton.net- ***Checking Ident

and that's all it does, it never comes up. I'm pretty much a novice with irc, so I don't know if it's something I'm doing or a problem with Apolyton.

[Dis]

Hmmm, now it works. I used a different email (not a valid one). I guess the email must have @apolyton.net ?

[alva]

Have fun talking to yourself.

[Dis]

yeah, there isn't much activity

I left myself logged on all day long while I was at work (though I think zone alarm shut down internet access when my screen saver kicked on). I didn't see one post.

[alva]

That dude settler2 often stops by, he don't talk much though.

[Adagio]

The chat doesn't work for me either (or at least not last time I tried)
Everytime I'm in there it goes a few minutes then I'm disconnected from the server
I didn't say anything that should get me banned... I didn't say anything at all... I guess that server just hates me

[H Tower]

there have been times in the past when the server would reset every 20 minutes. Back then there were actually people using the #apolyton room, and we'd all try to be the last one to post before we all got kicked off.

[alva]

You party animal, you.

[Rasbelin]

The IRC server of Poly has some severe issues. It disconnects users frequently and the IRCd is flaky as hell. Seems to crash like 1-2 years back. Not like the place works stable. No guesses about what the problem could be. I'd certainly look for alternative solutions. Maybe switch IRCd or drop it all together.

[Hueij]

Another "feature"?

When I click on the "2 people in the chat room: Dissident, Octavian_away," link at the top of a forum page I go the following page. Is that intended?

[Skanky Burns]

Its the new version of the chat. People just post random filenames, times and sizes.

The same list occurs for me too.

[Gramphos]

I believe you should post that in the Settler 3 bug thread. Obviously Settler 3 is not set to use index.shtml as default pages.

(And the fact that irc isn't installed yet (I believe) doesn't help)