[LCA2019 Chat] online chat

[Owen]

On 2019-01-17 15:49, Brian May wrote:
> Trying to connect to the chat channel, but:
> 
> * on UCVisitor network, accessing IRC on chat.freenode.net appears to 
> be
>   blocked.
> 
> * Trying to connect using riot (website) gives me the following error:
>   "@appservice-irc:matrix.org kicked Brian May. Reason: IRC error on
>   #linux.conf.au: err_needreggednick"
>   This confuses me as I don't think I had to do anything special 
> before.
>   Doing a google search has suggestions for IRC, not sure that is
>   relevant here???



"err_needreggednick"


You need to register with freenode.


Looks like there is 60 on there atm



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Owen