Can't get into AW's IRC Chat room

[Afreet]

Hi,

I cannot view the AW's IRC Chat room, when I try to enter I get this message " you don't have password to enter the chat room"

 

[zanzjan]

There is no password on the #absolutewrite channel, so that shouldn't be an issue. Are you successfully connecting to starchat? What client are you using?

 

[Afreet]

Hi zanzjan,

Thank you so much for replying.

I tried to enter chat, but I get the message as I wrote above, it says Admin has not given me the password to enter chat room.

About client, do you mean browser? If so then it is Safari.

 

[Afreet]

It is this message, I get;

"Your administrator has required a password to access this forum. Please enter this password now.
Note: This requires cookies!"

 

[KitCat]

Not sure what link you're clicking, but try this thread for other options to get to our IRC chat:

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/sho...(How-to-get-there-who-the-operators-are-etc-)

The direct link to starchat doesn't work anymore, but Mibbit/Icechat/chatzilla etc are most popular among our other users.

 

[dpaterso]

Can you tell me what specifically you're using, to get to where? Safari browser, but what URL, is it Mibbit, is it something else?

Ooops cross-posted with Kitty.

-Derek

 

[Afreet]

Hi KitCat and dpaterso,

I hope it will be alright I reply you both in same reply

I was just looking around this site, getting familiar with things, it is quite overwhelming here

I can't even figure out whether zanzjan replied my as a private message and now it is all out here. I was reading the " The Newbie Guide To Absolute Write", I've read it twice and it is btw very useful for newcomers - thank you for that.

And then somehow I ended up reading here "Forum: AW's IRC Chat
Guidelines, scheduled events, suggestions, and feedback regarding the AW IRC chat room"

I read some threads there, apparently it seems like some members have problems entering the chat. After that I pressed this "AW's IRC Chat" which is posted as a link above, and all that happened as I described above.

I guess, I just keep looking around the site and get to know how things works here, it is not much of much importance about the chat, I was just curious

I didn't really use any URL, I just pressed the link as I saw in the threads.

Thank you to the both of you, so much.

 

[AW Admin]

This link:

http://www.starchat.net/chat/?chan=absolutewrite

If you do not have Java installed and enabled results in a Web error (403) from Starchat's Web server; it's not an IRC Chat error, pe se.

Your best bet is likely to use an external IRC Chat client; via the Web try Mibbit.

 

[Afreet]

Hello AW Admin

Thank you so much for the suggestions, I'll try and see what happens

 

[zanzjan]

Let us know if you're still having trouble.

 

[Afreet]

Hi zanzjan,

Thank you for asking. Actually I didn't even try, I gave up, it so too complicated

 

[karenwritesalot]

Here's what I get:

Forbidden

You do not have permission to access this document.
Web Server at starchat.net

I've been in the chat before so have no idea why I'm having trouble now.

 

[dpaterso]

Can you try using Mibbit, http://www.mibbit.com/chat/

You should see the sign-in screen:

Select the yellow Server link and type irc.starchat.net into the Server: field.

Type your chosen nick into the Nick: field.
Note, if you have a registered nick, you would enter: nick password

Type #absolutewrite into the Channel: field.

Then select the Connect button.

Which should take you to the #AbsoluteWrite chat channel. (I just tried this -- and it worked.)

The above is taken from the FAQ about AW IRC Chat Channel (How to get there, who the operators are, etc.) thread.

-Derek