It's back.... (Garritan Chat)

[snorlax]

I tried but got a nastygram from McAfee site advisor telling me not to go there.

[Silh]

As when the chat was first opened, I tried again this evening to log in, but there was absolutely nothing there: Just a blank white page. I called my local provider who tried it from their office and he reported that there simply is nothing to log into. Sorry, guys, but it’s not working in North Dakota.

Are you running Internet Explorer? From my tests it seems IE doesn't seem to let it work, but Firefox does (though I had to tell my NoScript addon to not block scripts on the page), as does Chrome. There's probably a way to get IE to work as well, but I am not familiar with it.

As to siteadviser flagging it... http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/swiftirc.net has it listed as okay. Strange.

[rbowser-]

I just tried the chat link again. And again, nothing on the opening page.

Like I did awhile back, I checked just now to see if the link works for me. It does - The page looks pretty much blank, but there's a narrow text field at the very bottom for typing. Before getting there, I had to type in my user name, and the #garritan channel was already filled in.

Randy

[Tom_Davis]

Curiosity got to me so I went in a third time to try to log on. The page I am sent to has absolutely nothing on it – any where. Nada. I called the local server and was told that http://qwebirc.swiftirc.net/?channels=#garritan is tagged as a viral site.

[rbowser-]

Curiosity got to me so I went in a third time to try to log on. The page I am sent to has absolutely nothing on it – any where. Nada. I called the local server and was told that http://qwebirc.swiftirc.net/?channels=#garritan is tagged as a viral site.

Well that's a drag, Tom. You see nada because the server's blocking it - that's pretty aggressive of them. The chat works fine for me, it's not blocked. A lot of things get flagged as "viral" when they're not though. Box, where a lot of us post music, is flagged as viral sometimes.

The chat uses Javascript to run, I think they all do. I don't know if there's an alternative that wouldn't also be blocked by some servers or computers.

Randy

[Michael135]

So many reasons in this thread as to why everyone should use firefox.

I'll be in the chat for a while if anyone wants to drop by. Have some catching up to do in the listening room.

[Silh]

Well, just to throw in an alternative for those who are unable or don't want to use the javascript client from that page, you could use a standalone IRC client (which is what most people used before they came up with fancy nifty javascript pages to do the same thing)... but that involves installing another program which some people would rather not do (so the javascript page is sort of nice for that).

There are a few out there, such as mIRC, XChat (I use one called irssi, but it's rather arcane so I'm not going to recommend it, but I'm not familiar enough with the others to give any help on them). Once you've got an IRC client of some sort, point it at one of the swiftirc.net servers (tripwire.uk.eu.swiftirc.net, hades.de.eu.swiftirc.net, lunas.fr.eu.swiftirc.net are some of the listed ones right now), port 6667 or 6668, and connect to it, and once you're in, join the #garritan channel.