Wyldryde for IRC Chat on TheSleepyGeek

I have wanted to set up an IRC channel for the website. I plan to have a video stream eventually (very distant future) and I wanted to have the chat channel up and running when I am ready for that. I have looked at a number of options and in the end I feel Wyldryde is a great choice.

Wyldryde is a free IRC server. Anyone can join their service and create their own IRC channel if they wish. They don’t rely on advertising revenue right now, they rely on donations. This means that if you want to embed their IRC window on your website, there is no advertising in the way of your chatting.

I have created a dedicated chat page. I find that when you put a chat window in the middle of a page with a lot of other content it tends to confuse matters. I like to keep it clean and a dedicated page I think is the best way to achieve that. One day, a long long time from now…. I might put video and chat together because that just makes sense.

To set up a channel with Wyldryde is very easy. They have laid out instructions on their website in a clean step by step list. Simply follow the commands listed and type them into your IRC chat client. When the channel is created you can make a lot of adjustments including the ability to add free bots provided by their servers.

Kudos to Wyldryde!