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March 23, 2007 12:58 PM

I'd like to take the time to invite everyone informally to #mefi on slashnet (irc://irc.slashnet.org/mefi)! Ops for everyone! Please check your discontent at the door. That is all.
posted by cellphone to MetaFilter gatherings at 12:58 PM (50 comments total)

OMG
posted by cillit bang at 1:12 PM on March 23, 2007

Don't fall for it. I went in there once recently and cortex chased me out with a ball-peen hammer.
posted by eyeballkid at 1:17 PM on March 23, 2007

That's because he likes you. For others, he gets out the straight claw.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:22 PM on March 23, 2007

They lied about the ops.
posted by grouse at 1:23 PM on March 23, 2007

Can anyone recommend a good IRC client?
posted by EndsOfInvention at 1:29 PM on March 23, 2007

Whoa, big party.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:30 PM on March 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Is this some kind of internet thing?
posted by Mister_A at 1:30 PM on March 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

I've heard too much about suicide cults today to join this party
posted by Elmore at 1:31 PM on March 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

pssst, the jabber server will be coming back next month sometime. I have a spare server just for it.
posted by mathowie at 1:32 PM on March 23, 2007 [2 favorites]

Oh lordy lou, let's all get on IRC and act like idiots. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angrydome.
posted by boo_radley at 1:32 PM on March 23, 2007

Oh lordy lou, let's all get on IRC and act like idiots. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angrydome.

Hey, I'll be whatever I wanna do!
posted by EndsOfInvention at 1:33 PM on March 23, 2007

The revival of #mefi? And I was just thinking the other day about how I hadn't heard about Beth's boobs in awhile.

I'll stop by. I miss tog. :(
posted by dios at 1:45 PM on March 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

The ghost of the jabber session lost to antiquity will finally rest in peace! Hallelujah!
posted by prostyle at 2:01 PM on March 23, 2007

pssst, the jabber server will be coming back next month sometime. I have a spare server just for it.

*shits self*
posted by brundlefly at 2:01 PM on March 23, 2007

irc client? MIRC.
posted by Listener at 2:04 PM on March 23, 2007

For those who don't want to bother with mirc and all its itinerant goofiness: Chatzilla. (Have to be using Firefox)
posted by Burhanistan at 2:13 PM on March 23, 2007

can I upload a picture of my famously inerrant smile?
posted by parmanparman at 2:19 PM on March 23, 2007

please name the jabber server "gom". I will pay cash-monies.
posted by boo_radley at 2:35 PM on March 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

the jabber server will be coming back next month sometime.

I rarely whine to mathowie in backchannel fashion, but this has been something I have wanted for a long time. Yay.
posted by jessamyn at 2:41 PM on March 23, 2007

dios: #tapes is where the ol' #mefi keeps it real.
posted by fishfucker at 2:59 PM on March 23, 2007

Oh my God, it's full of pricks!
posted by chrismear at 3:08 PM on March 23, 2007

pricks with nicks
posted by quonsar at 3:23 PM on March 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Aw man. Just what I need, a second IRC channel to completely kill my work productivity.

(Maybe that this one's not on freenode will be enough of a hurdle to keep me away... just maybe. Ok, not likely.)
posted by misskaz at 3:26 PM on March 23, 2007

Note: no cabal.
posted by cortex at 3:32 PM on March 23, 2007

please name the jabber server "gom".

boo_radley, I think I love you.
posted by Smilla's Sense of Snark at 3:45 PM on March 23, 2007

Why on earth would I want to communicate with you bunch of nerds?
posted by liquorice at 4:45 PM on March 23, 2007

Take it to the green, liquorice.
posted by 31d1 at 4:50 PM on March 23, 2007

okay, so i just don't know how to use this thing. i haven't used mirc for ten years!
posted by liquorice at 4:50 PM on March 23, 2007

For the Mac users among us, I have found Colloquy to be a lovely client. I used to use Chatzilla, but hated that I couldn't command+tab to a Firefox browser window. Colloquy is free, and applescriptable. Plus, if you are running iTunes while chatting type /music or /itunes.
posted by terrapin at 5:01 PM on March 23, 2007

Holy crap. I can stop asking for the damn *jabber server*
posted by filmgeek at 5:15 PM on March 23, 2007

pssst, the jabber server will be coming back next month sometime. I have a spare server just for it.

Somebody let filmgeek know!
posted by MLIS at 5:32 PM on March 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

*sigh* Refresh is my friend.
posted by MLIS at 5:34 PM on March 23, 2007

I went onto the mefi irc, but everyone started hitting on me, so I left. I was like, "as if!"
posted by Pastabagel at 6:57 PM on March 23, 2007

Hey Pastabagel, you really wear that shirt. Yow.
posted by carsonb at 7:07 PM on March 23, 2007

But, dios, you know that you can see me in #tapes on occasion and you have been doing a fine job of ignoring..uhm..stalking me on googletalk.

While I can appreciate cellphone's offer to bring back #mefi, I don't know if it would be able to garner much interest due to the bad rap it got in the days of feeling like it was #mefi vs mefi, hence the establishment of #tapes, imo. Of course, this was before there were over 50k mefites, so, maybe there will be more interest than I would expect.
posted by thatothrgirl at 8:21 PM on March 23, 2007

"please name the jabber server 'gom'."

I was kind of hoping for "Lew Alcindor".
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:29 PM on March 23, 2007

mr_crash_davis: Also clever and therefore acceptable.
posted by boo_radley at 9:39 PM on March 23, 2007

Did I just get invited to pound MeFi?
posted by spiderwire at 9:43 PM on March 23, 2007

Did I just get invited to pound MeFi?

Don't fall for it. I went in there once recently and cortex chased me out with a ball-peen hammer.

I don't think it would be safe to assume you are going to do the pounding.
posted by philomathoholic at 12:30 AM on March 24, 2007

...I guess that pun was a bit too subtle.
posted by spiderwire at 12:43 AM on March 24, 2007

pound or punned?

you decide.
posted by wendell at 3:43 AM on March 24, 2007

*uses dead-blow hammer on "subtle" pun*
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:59 AM on March 24, 2007

It's hash Mefi, anyway.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:21 AM on March 24, 2007

Octothorpe, you monosyllabic heretics.
posted by cortex at 5:48 AM on March 24, 2007

Damn, I knew I should have registered #mefi on slashnet.
posted by Eideteker at 8:14 AM on March 24, 2007

I'd love to. I seem to remember being part of an irc chan once. Also, there's a period of about 5 years of my life I can't really account for. I wonder if there's a connection there.
posted by ninjew at 11:42 AM on March 24, 2007

Octothorpe, you monosyllabic heretics.

Uh huh. And, this, I suppose, is a duothorpe: |
posted by George_Spiggott at 12:44 PM on March 24, 2007

That's a monorod.

Philistine!
posted by cortex at 1:04 PM on March 24, 2007

Mmmm. Hash mefi. Almost as good as hash browns.
posted by wendell at 3:21 PM on March 24, 2007

Octothorpe, you monosyllabic heretics.

same thing. i prefer "octothorn."
posted by spiderwire at 6:09 PM on March 24, 2007