There isnt many people in there at the moment, and its already a cool place to chat

If you want a software based client X-Chat is a great one.

Well, a chatter in my channel recently reported that Quassel worked fine for him on Windows. So... if you find the Silverex build of X-Chat lacking, have a look at this excellent client. You'd most likely want the monolithic version. There are static builds for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

http://quassel-irc.org/

Also, the Java chat is no longer available; the webchat has been improved lots, though.

do people use the IRC channel more often now?

i used to visit. but with like no one talking in IRC i left.

It's dead unless someone says something. I usually idle in there until I get pinged.

Do we need a logbot that exports the most recent n lines of chat to this forum? If an admin would set up a PHP script for this, I could hack GameOver up to POST periodic updates. Or zzbomb could do this.

lolk. Because zzbomb's server does not have a NAT traversal problem, we got it set up with his bot. Here are the last ten lines of chat: http://bot.chemicalservers.com:8010/thh

Messages look like: [date time] <name> msg
Actions look like: [date time] <> name acts

Timestamps are UTC. We could use a different format such as JSON(P) if you want, or include different information.

Nothing is ever filtered, but I imagine we could use SMF's built-in censoring feature. And it's only ever going to give you ten lines (unless you want a different amount of data), so just poll it once in a while.