Lol, good luck then. I have no further ideas on that.
I've been poking around the Internet for just about two decades now, so while there's a whole lot of things I don't know about, there's a lot I do. (I spent a while trying out a bunch of programs in particular categories, so…) As far as IRC goes, you could try IceChat for Windows, and Colloquy for Mac, depending on which you use. Those are both free and fairly solid from what I can tell. (I run Linux, so I have a different selection of possibilities altogether.) IRC isn't a fanfic source, it's chatrooms on various topics. The #yuletide channel used to be pretty busy, until someone opened a Discord for #yuletide and pretty much everyone migrated there. (Except I hate the emojis there and you CAN'T TURN THEM OFF. So I couldn't stand to try to use it because UGLY, lol.) There's still a handful of us on IRC and it is a really easy way to chat. If you're stuck when opening it, you want to add a server "irc.slashnet.org" and once you're connected there, go to the channel by typing in "/join #yuletide" (without the quotes, of course) and hit enter and it should take you there. I know IRC took me a tiny bit to pick up when I first did and now it's really simple to use.
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Date: 2019-07-16 03:23 pm (UTC)I've been poking around the Internet for just about two decades now, so while there's a whole lot of things I don't know about, there's a lot I do. (I spent a while trying out a bunch of programs in particular categories, so…) As far as IRC goes, you could try IceChat for Windows, and Colloquy for Mac, depending on which you use. Those are both free and fairly solid from what I can tell. (I run Linux, so I have a different selection of possibilities altogether.) IRC isn't a fanfic source, it's chatrooms on various topics. The #yuletide channel used to be pretty busy, until someone opened a Discord for #yuletide and pretty much everyone migrated there. (Except I hate the emojis there and you CAN'T TURN THEM OFF. So I couldn't stand to try to use it because UGLY, lol.) There's still a handful of us on IRC and it is a really easy way to chat. If you're stuck when opening it, you want to add a server "irc.slashnet.org" and once you're connected there, go to the channel by typing in "/join #yuletide" (without the quotes, of course) and hit enter and it should take you there. I know IRC took me a tiny bit to pick up when I first did and now it's really simple to use.