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#1 Post by Lobster »

I have been into IRC by clicking on the chat icon in puppy8. 8)

Loads of people each time but no one conversing? :oops:

What's happening? Do I have to start the party? :roll:
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#2 Post by tlchost »

Lobster wrote:I have been into IRC by clicking on the chat icon in puppy8. 8) ...
Loads of people each time but no one conversing? :oops:
What's happening? Do I have to start the party? :roll:
You are experiencing the time-honored tradition of Lurking. #puppylinux, like so many other IRC channels, is afflicted with a large number of folks who are on the channels and either asleep, have been lobotomized or even dead.

To make matters even worse, many IRC channels are controlled by "absentee owners" who are not active.

The Puppy IRC channel reminds me of amateur radio. People turn on their radios, hear no activity and assume the bands are dead...and if you think about it, they are dead because no one is transmitting.

Perhaps you could generate activity by posting something that will ring some bells...maybe "Microsoft buys Puppy Linux", or "Linux will require purchasing a user license in 2020".

I suspect even that type of post will not generate much activity.

Join #puppylinux on IRC....it's as exciting as watching clothes dry at the laundromat.

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#3 Post by backi »

Hi tlchost !

Cool Rant !!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Made my day :lol: :lol:

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#4 Post by tlchost »

backi wrote:Hi tlchost !
Cool Rant !!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Made my day :lol: :lol:
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Thanks...but I should have waited a few days to post this reply...after all, it's in reference to IRC, where timeliness is not our most important product.

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#5 Post by Lobster »

You are experiencing the time-honored tradition of Lurking. #puppylinux, like so many other IRC channels, is afflicted with a large number of folks who are on the channels and either asleep, have been lobotomized or even dead
I gets it!

Zombie IRC chat.

Time to go in with my lobster patented brain sausages (not suitable for vogons, vegans or ... even zombies)
I am a wer-lobster so zombies, lurkers, troll and such are fine with me . . .

IRC chat Activate!

Update:

<lobster> greetings fellow Puppians
<lobster> I hear most of you have died or are IRC zombies?
<lobster> It is OK I am crazy enough to talk to myself for a while . . .
<lobster> The new Puppy 8.1 is coming in a couple of months are you prepared?
<lobster> Puppy 8 was great but I want to run it on my raspberry pi ...
<lobster> Breaker, breaker ... come in ... over
<lobster> OK enough about me - tell us about you lobster?
<lobster> I am official cructacean for Puppy Linux and an ozmonaught for Open Source Time Travel
* xenial64-user (~puppy@S0106a84e3fbc7b93.cg.shawcable.net) has joined
<xenial64-user> yo
* xenial64-user has quit (Client Quit)
<lobster> tell me about I am a Yinyana Buddhist and ex-alchemist
* bionicpup64_1580 (~puppy@121.98.67.214) has joined
* bionicpup64_1580 has quit (Client Quit)
<lobster> yo you are using xenial puppy - that uses debian packages?
<lobster> Oh he has gone what did I say?
<lobster> Maybe it was a bot? Bot are you a terminator?

Oh that was fun :D "Bring out your dead!"
Will try again soon ...
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#6 Post by aloo-shu »

terribly helpful.

why not hang out on the channel for a few days and get a real impression? Or even help with support? Btw., 100 lurkers isn't an anomaly on an old chan.

seen it to late to answer, but with 22 minutes from first line to quit, you have already beaten the avg. user patience, at 3min appx..

and ok, I had to grin, a bit

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#7 Post by s243a »

Let me know when the party is and maybe I'll sign on :)

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#8 Post by tlchost »

aloo-shu wrote:terribly helpful.

why not hang out on the channel for a few days and get a real impression? Or even help with support? Btw., 100 lurkers isn't an anomaly on an old chan.
SO let's see...if 100 of us hung out on the channel for a few days, and did not post, the channel would still be inactive and a vast wasteland. Or you could hang out, set the alerts to tell you a post was made, and wait to hear a beep, and then rush back to the IRC window.

But wait, would you hear the beep if you were listening to music?

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Seems more active on Sundays (that was always the case)

Found out x-chat is now Hexchat (as used on BionicPup and other neo-Puppys)

There is also a browser IRC still working
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=puppylinux which I found here ..
http://wikka.puppylinux.com/ChatRoom
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#10 Post by backi »

Hi Awsome Lama Lobster !

Probably one Scene from a Script of the Film called:
"Tibetan Book of the Dead "
Update:

<lobster> greetings fellow Puppians
<lobster> I hear most of you have died or are IRC zombies?
<lobster> It is OK I am crazy enough to talk to myself for a while . . .
<lobster> The new Puppy 8.1 is coming in a couple of months are you prepared?
<lobster> Puppy 8 was great but I want to run it on my raspberry pi ...
<lobster> Breaker, breaker ... come in ... over
<lobster> OK enough about me - tell us about you lobster?
<lobster> I am official cructacean for Puppy Linux and an ozmonaught for Open Source Time Travel
* xenial64-user (~puppy@S0106a84e3fbc7b93.cg.shawcable.net) has joined
<xenial64-user> yo
* xenial64-user has quit (Client Quit)
<lobster> tell me about I am a Yinyana Buddhist and ex-alchemist
* bionicpup64_1580 (~puppy@121.98.67.214) has joined
* bionicpup64_1580 has quit (Client Quit)
<lobster> yo you are using xenial puppy - that uses debian packages?
<lobster> Oh he has gone what did I say?
<lobster> Maybe it was a bot? Bot are you a terminator?

Oh that was fun Very Happy "Bring out your dead!"
Will try again soon ...
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Re: Chat? Wot u say!

#11 Post by rufwoof »

tlchost wrote:
Lobster wrote:I have been into IRC by clicking on the chat icon in puppy8. 8) ...
Loads of people each time but no one conversing? :oops:
What's happening? Do I have to start the party? :roll:
You are experiencing the time-honored tradition of Lurking. #puppylinux, like so many other IRC channels, is afflicted with a large number of folks who are on the channels and either asleep, have been lobotomized or even dead.
Some don't have an alert enabled, just leave it running in the background and drop in once in a while to scroll back and see what the chatter might have been recently. And if someone puts out a shout for help and also leaves that in the background rather than disconnecting, then sooner or later (could be hours) someone will drop in and reply - if they're still seen to be connected. Which can focus both parties down to being on at the same time and having a chat.

More often however, many drop in and relatively quickly disconnect again upon seeing it quiet. Or do post something, but disconnect after a few minutes (or less) upon not having received a near instant reply.
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#12 Post by Lobster »

Thanks @rufwoof

but as a long time Puppy user - hanging around for support is a MS or Apple unservice. We need helpers straining at the leash :wink:
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