Informal Daily Chat Availability

[Adi'karta]

Because the chat nights have been so difficult for everyone to make time for, I'd like to provide some other options for practising Mando'a on a more informal basis:

I can be reached at admin [at] mandoa [dot] org on Google Hangouts (chat from inside Gmail, the Google Hangouts app, Google Plus, or wherever). If you prefer a different chat service, I can make an AIM, Skype, YIM, or ICQ (or whatever) account and link that to my phone as well. Google Hangouts has a nice group chat feature built-in, which might be nice to avail ourselves of, as does Skype (I'm not very familiar with the capabilities of the other listed services in this regard).

Soon I will also be maintaining a vigilant presence on IRC as well, for those of you who prefer IRC or who would rather not have to register an account tied to a major advertising corporation like Google or Yahoo or Microsoft. IRC has issues maintaining a stable connection on my phone (it disconnects if my phone doesn't respond to a PING every 30 seconds, often forcing me to close the app and repeat the login/channel-joining process), but there are some options I'm looking into in order to work around that issue.

[Vlet Hansen]

fantastic!

[MsLanna]

Kandosii!
I'm a yahoo messenger girl, but will do skype as well.

[Cuyan Atinii]

As I'm on droid, Hangouts is my messenger app. So it works really well for messaging for me...

CuyanAtinii [at] gmail [dot] com

We can chat about you, about me, what were both up to. Drop me a line.

[Vlet Hansen]

CUY CA'NARA.

Hangouts time.
Let's see how many people we can get online at once!

[Adi'karta]

FYI I finally got around to configuring my Quassel server (IRC repeater) so I can access it from work, so I will be logged-in and paying-attention-to the IRC channel during working hours every day for the foreseeable future. If you want to join me for a chat, feel free to hop onto Freenode IRC #mandoa.org. If you want to know my personal Skype or Google Hangouts account addresses, send me a private message here and I'll share them with you.

I've decided I've been inactive for too long here, and would like to contribute more to this community -- if nothing else, it's doubly important now because our community is no longer quite as canon as it once was, and I perceive Mando'a as now at risk of dying off or being forgotten.

[Vlet Hansen]

When I attempted to join, it was invite-only.

[Adi'karta]

Osik. I thought I fixed that. I'll post back once it is no longer invite-only.

Ok I removed the invite-only mode flag and locked it so it should not get re-added. I think the problem is that I accidentally made it invite-only the first time around, then locked it, then when I removed it the last time I forgot to set the lock to keep it from coming back, so the next time I logged out and back in, it re-added the invite-only flag. IRC is confusing sometimes.

[Vlet Hansen]

Now I'm getting in channel and getting messages "cannot send to channel" every time I say something

[An'u Biss]

Now I'm getting in channel and getting messages "cannot send to channel" every time I say something

Same here

[Adi'karta]

And that was because for some reason registered channels are set by default to disallow non-voiced users from speaking at all, meaning I would have to explicitly give you voice.

Apparently administering a registered IRC channel is complicated. It is made worse by the fact that I cannot figure out how to get ChanServ to just show me all the flags that are currently set on the channel; I can only set or unset flags.

After fixing the voice-restriction flag, I just tested with a random unregistered username via the web client and I was able to speak to the channel. So hopefully that means you will now be able to as well. Sorry this has been so hit-or-miss (more accurately: entirely miss).

[An'u Biss]

Sorry this has been so hit-or-miss (more accurately: entirely miss).

Heh, no worries, vod. Activity is a welcome change even if it is a struggle