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IRC chat rooms
IRC is one of the oldest chat systems still running: networks of servers with channels that start with a hash sign. Many long-running chat room sites are a web window onto an IRC network, so you can join from the browser with just a nickname.
This list includes both IRC channels and the websites that connect to IRC networks. Our guide to IRC explains nicknames, channel commands and how moderation works.
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Communities are ordered by their overall score: a weighted sum of activity, moderation, privacy, ads and ease of use. Activity comes from automatic checks every few hours; the other criteria from an editor’s tests.
Unverified listings are not shown here, and closed sites are not ranked: they appear separately at the end of the list. Communities we could not reach at the last check stay visible with a warning, because outages are often temporary.
Sponsored listings are labelled and never move up the list.
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