vb org IRC Chat dead?

[Skyrider]

I noticed that the chat ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/chat.php ) has been dead for a while now. Any reasonings its still up as a link on this site?

[nexialys]

the cat is dead...

[Brandon Sheley]

it's a dead duck

[veenuisthebest]

its actually a dead dog.

[Shazz]

its a dead monkey
I use to go over to vbfans chat room but people sleep in there and snore too loud

[nexialys]

it's Dean who is snoring...

grunting i would say

[Shazz]

Suggestion:
Place chat under quick links :)

[Skyrider]

My suggestion, remove it.. The whole IRC server is dead.. doesn't connect

[Dean C]

There's hundreds of other irc networks out there. Just set up a #vborg chan on freenode.

[Skyrider]

There's hundreds of other irc networks out there. Just set up a #vborg chan on freenode.
I'm talking about irc.vbulletin.org though ^_^, not about other servers.

[Paul M]

Does anybody use it ?

[nexialys]

hum, i would suggest a poll on the question, Paul... it's a service to the community, i think it's to the community to vote on this... isn't it?

[King Kovifor]

I would use #vBorg:

http://tweetchat.com/oauth/room/vBorg

[Paul M]

Poll added.

[nexialys]

we will make the irc server die for good... ARF ARF ARF....

/me have devil eyes!

[Allan]

No for me.

[Lizard King]

No for me

[iogames]

deader than dead!

[Spank]

I voted yes, cos I do log on once every blue moon.

[fattony69]

/me never knew it existed...

[KW802]

deader than dead!So it died, became a zombie, and died again?




:p

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The server names for this IRC network have changed recently. JAVA chat applet updated with new server information, so you should be able to use our webbased chat again.

If you are connecting using an IRC client, you can use the following server information:

Server: irc.vbirc.com / irc.vbirc.org
Port: 6667
Channel: #vborg

[Magnumutz]

So it died, became a zombie, and died again?
And then the admins killed it.

[Shazz]

Poll added.

Sleeping in the IRC dosn't count!

[Sunray2]

I tried to use it when I became a member, but no one was on...

[Shelley_c]

I went in #vborg channel a couple of times but the chat was inactive. Even though I show up quite a number of hours on the whos_online I'm working and the chat would be nothing short of a distraction. Grant, If you have the hours to spend chatting, and, the channel is active with the added bonus you love a good natter then this is your cup of tea and/or coffee if you have a coffee vending machine that will enduce coffee jokes for the chat. Maybe add a coffee bot?

Perhaps a better placement as stated would be better, which i don't agree because it's current placement is about the best/most prominent place it can be in the navbar. Maybe bolding the link but then why should chat get priority over the other links with the possibility of deterring posts (which could be beneficial) to the forum

[Michael Biddle]

Nope

[Zachariah]

I am on now and then to chew the fat.

[nexialys]

who said there was fat on irc?

[Zachariah]

These days we mean by it that people are chatting or gossiping to pass the time to no very deep purpose. When it first appeared, though, it meant to grumble or complain.

Some wonderfully literal-minded stories have been invented with which to explain its origin, especially in North America, where it has been linked to native peoples, American Indians or Inuit, who would chew hides to soften them, an activity carried out in their spare time. The tale you mention first appeared around 1999 in a widely circulated humorous message with the title Life in 1500 that purports to give the origins of several puzzling expressions. It still annoyingly pops up from time to time and has unfortunately been widely taken to be accurate:

Sometimes people could obtain pork and would feel really special when that happened. When company came over, they would bring out some bacon and hang it to show it off. It was a sign of wealth and that a man “could really bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat.”
Like the other stories in the message, it’s rubbish, of course. For a start, the expression is about four centuries less old than the tale suggests.

The first reference in the Oxford English Dictionary is in a book by J Brunlees Patterson published in 1885, Life in the Ranks of the British Army in India. He suggested it was a term for the kind of generalised grumbling, the bending of the ears of junior officers as a way of staving off boredom, that’s a perennial and immemorial part of army life. It also appears in the famous 1891 British compilation Slang and Its Analogues by John Farmer and William Henley; it is likewise said to be of military origin and mean grumbling. The next examples we have are from the US, dating from the early part of the twentieth century. It became more common over the next decade on both sides of the Atlantic and weakened until it just meant idle chat.

Mr Patterson also records the phrase chew the rag, which at one point he uses in the same sentence as chew the fat and which he obviously considered to be synonymous. This is a little older — an example is recorded in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang from about 1875: “Gents, I could chew the rag hours on end, just spilling out the words and never know no more than a billy-goat what I’d been saying”. The OED has an example of 1891 taken from James Dixon’s Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, which was published in Shanghai; the author glosses it as “to be sullen and abusive. A phrase common in the army”. Chew the rag is much more widely recorded from the US from about 1895 onwards than is chew the fat and becomes commonly known both there and in the UK in the decades that followed.

The 1875 US example sounds like the modern meaning but the slightly later British ones are in the military slang sense of grumbling. This may indicate independent creation. The dating and geographical distribution of citations leave us with some unanswered questions, too. However, it looks from the evidence as though chew the fat is a modification of chew the rag. If it is, then the origin is probably in the US.

But we don’t need to invoke any literal interpretations, either of chewing rags or fat. It’s enough to compare the steady chomping of the jaws in chewing with the mouth movements of conversation to see where the figurative sense came from. The image of a person biting down on something so uncongenial and unrewarding as a rag, like an angry dog worrying a bit of cloth, is enough to evoke the original sense of grumbling and discontent.

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BTW:

-> -Zachariah- Welcome to #vborg.
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#vborg Zachariah ~MarcoH64 +ManagerJosh +Brian-zZz %fewyn|Zzz +dat


<Zachariah> gana see if I can burn out this cable modem
<Zachariah> :D
<MarcoH64> lol, nexialys responded to the IRC thread







soooooooo :P ....... IRC kicks butt !

[nexialys]

<MarcoH64> lol, nexialys responded to the IRC thread

Marco's wrong again, i did not respond to the thread, i made an off-topic post... tsss

[Skyrider]

The server names for this IRC network have changed recently. JAVA chat applet updated with new server information, so you should be able to use our webbased chat again.

If you are connecting using an IRC client, you can use the following server information:

Server: irc.vbirc.com / irc/vbirc.org
Port: 6667
Channel: #vborg
Gracias, and may I suggest adding this?

irc://irc.vbirc.com/vborg

and or

irc://irc.vbirc.org/vborg

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Sorry but i don't understand your suggestion.

[nexialys]

it's a direct url to open the irc channel from your browser to your irc client...

[Skyrider]

Indeed ;), if you have an IRC client installed, and it understands the command through the browser, it'll ask your IRC client if you wish to connect to that server and that channel. Example shown below:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=97326&d=1239021288

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Added clickable link to the Chat page.

[Skyrider]

I know this is a 3 years old thread, though it's mine. But I assume the chat has been completely removed? I do believe I noticed about 5 months ago that the IRC server doesn't exist anymore either. It's a shame if it no longer exists :(.

[Paul M]

It was killed off a long time ago (at least two years ago now I think).

[Skyrider]

Indeed a shame. I assume there is no other vB IRC channel?

[Paul M]

None run by IB/VB.

We dont even have a staff one now - that was shut down a few months ago in favour of Skype.

[The Guy]

None run by IB/VB.
We dont even have a staff one now - that was shut down a few months ago in favour of Skype.

Sorry!

*Speaks on behalf of Microsoft (MS owns Skype by the way.)*

[Skyrider]

Bring vB IRC chat back! :(.

Seriously, it should be brought back. I find it very useful. And of course other people agree with me!

[Paul M]

Its not coming back, and given it took over a year before anyone noticed it was gone, I dont think its exactly missed.

[Skyrider]

Its not coming back, and given it took over a year before anyone noticed it was gone, I dont think its exactly missed.
I noticed it actually a long long time ago, just never posted about it.