How to access our regional chatroom

UPDATE!

It's been pointed out that these instructions are a bit out of date, as the new version of Trillian (5.1) has come out since they were written. Instructions for using 5.1 have now been added. For those of you still using older versions of Trillian, the old instructions will remain at the bottom of this post.

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FOR USERS OF TRILLIAN 5.1

1) Sign in to your account. (Create one first if you don't have one.)

2) At the top of the Trillian window, click the button that says "Trillian", and click "Manage accounts".

3) This should take you to the accounts window. At the bottom, click "Add a new account", then select "IRC".

4) Enter what you want your account name and nickname to be. (I usually use the same thing for both, I'm not really sure what the difference is.) Where it says Server Host, type (or copy + paste) this: irc.starchat.net . Tick the box that says "Automatically connect to this account at start up".

5) Now click the "Settings" button. In the new window that opens, select "Miscellaneous". At the top of this page, you should see something that says Commands, with a text box next to it. In the box, type (copy + paste) this: /join #nanoglos .

6) Exit out of the settings and accounts windows. Sign out of your Trillian account. From the next time you sign in, you will join our chat room automatically!

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For those using older versions of Trillian

For those who asked, or for those who would like to use the chatrooms without being kicked by the internet... (Yes, this looks a bit scary, but once it's set up, you shouldn't ever have to touch it again.)

Download Trillian here:
http://www.trillian.im/
(I use 4.2 for Windows)

Once you've got that downloaded and installed, you'll be able to create a Trillian account. Start up Trillian, and create an account through the prompts.

Once that's done, Trillian will log you in. Now you're ready to set up your IRC connection.

On your Trillian screen, underneath where it says "Online", click on the icon on the left (Connection Manager). This will take you to a new screen. Click the button at the bottom that says, "Add a new connection". In the options, click IRC.

This gives you three fields to fill in. In the first two fields, put the name you want to use. (I put the same name in both. If you leave the first field blank, it doesn't work. I don't know why, though...) In the third field, put "irc.starchat.net" without the quotes. To make it easy, you can click the "Automatically connect" button underneath, too. Once you've done all that, click Connect.

Okay, you've connected to IRC, now it's time to set up the chat room! Click "Settings" (right next to the Connect/Disconnect button). Look at the menu with the red background on the left, and you should have a section called "Miscellaneous". Click it.

On the screen that comes up, there is a section at the top for Commands. In the first line of the Commands section, type this:
/join #nanoglos
Once you've done that, close the settings window. You're all set up! From the next time you log in to Trillian, you will automatically go straight into the chat room. You shouldn't have to go through any of this again.

From here, you can either log out of Trillian and log back in, or you can join the nano channel manually. To do this yourself, go back to your main Trillian window and right click the IRC icon (grey dot). Click Join a channel (at the bottom of the pop-up menu). In the channel field, type #nanoglos , then click Join at the bottom. This will log you straight into the nano chat room.

There ya go! Hope to see you guys in the chat room. (And brownie points to the people who figure out how many times I've used the word "once" in this post.)

Also though, if you don't want to install trillian, you can join us via http://www.starchat.net/chat/?chan=nanoglos - it's browser based, so it can be a bit buggy, but it worked the last time I checked ;)

Kai

It's a java plugin - but it's not downloading - I'll look into
It today :)

Kai

Whee! I'm in, but there's only one other person there

I shall be there this evening for a little bit as well. Sadly I must disappear early on Tuesdays, so I survive my early morning wake up calls on Wednesdays...

http://www.starchat.net/chat/?chan=#nanoglos is the right link, sorry guys!

Also, I'm not sure *what* plugin it needs to dowload, it's not working from Chrome. I'll need to poke it later when I'm on the laptop :)

Kai

Original post updated with instructions for those using newer versions of Trillian (5.1).

I use a Mac and when I get to the bit in the instructions about that says

2) At the top of the Trillian window, click the button that says "Trillian", and click "Manage accounts".

3) This should take you to the accounts window. At the bottom, click "Add a new account", then select "IRC".

I don't get "IRC" showing up in the list.
Does anyone have any ideas, please?

I did a bit of digging and found the same thing, Thanks Rae