IRC

[Eake4]

Lol, you were there for four minutes. Maybe stick around for a little longer next time?

4 minutes and 12 seconds Yeah Ill idle for hours next time

[Otohiko]

It's also worth mentioning that you are in Australia, and the majority of active people on IRC are in North America and Europe. You might've got on at a dead time when most people don't talk anyway.

[mirkosp]

I personally use HexChat. I used to be on XChat, then went to XChat2 (aka YChan), then to XChat-WDK, which lately became HexChat.
It's better than mIRC for me because I need to join many networks, and mIRC really doesn't work well with that.

[Eake4]

Soz for being a noob but How the hell do I connect with #AMV on HexChat?

[mirkosp]

The network is synirc, it should be on the list. You can the click on edit and add #AMV to favorite channels.

[Eake4]

unfortunately its not there, so can I just add synirc to the networks? (I probably cant right?)

[Jadecavy]

irc.synirc.net is what you want to add.

[mirkosp]

Yup. Click add, give it a name, then click modify. In place of newserver/6667 write what Scott said.

[Eake4]

Having a problem where the program doesnt recognise it as a server

[ngsilver]

try irc.synirc.org as the server

and if you need to specify a port, you can specify irc.synirc.org:6667 as the server which should take.