Beta version

Chat

Join the network from this page, with nothing to install. Your browser talks to the IRC server directly — the site only gives you the client.

Join a channel

Your nickname

If this nickname is registered on the network, it is protected: you will have to identify, or the service will give you another one.

Channel

Age

Gender

City

France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Quebec. Accents and hyphens don’t matter.

Find my city automatically Your browser will ask for permission. The location is used only to fill in the field above; it is neither published nor stored — and it is rounded to about a kilometer before it reaches us. You can correct the city found.

Show my age, gender and city to others Unchecked, nobody sees it. Checked, it appears on your public profile — anyone on the network will be able to read it.

Password (optional)

The password of your registered nickname (the one from OverNick REGISTER). Needed for reserved channels, and to protect a registered nickname. It goes straight to the service, never to the site.

Channels

The rules

What is expected of everyone (in French):

Remain courteous, including when you disagree.
Respect a channel’s topic and atmosphere: what is acceptable in a relaxed channel is not necessarily acceptable in a support channel.
Read the channel topic before writing there — it often sets out rules specific to the place.
Avoid continuous capitals, repetition and strings of very short messages: that is flooding, even without intent to harm.
Ask a question and wait. Asking again every thirty seconds does not make answers come any faster.
Report abuse rather than answering it in the same tone: the APPEL command with any service, or the chat’s button.
Dating — profiles, photos, and both the webcam and the microphone in video chat — is reserved for adult members (18 or over). The camera and the microphone only open with your consent, and their content is moderated automatically.

What leads to a sanction (in French):

Insults, hateful remarks immediate exclusion
Harassment immediate exclusion
Illegal content permanent exclusion
Unsolicited advertising kick, then ban
Flooding automatic kick
Impersonation immediate exclusion
Evading a sanction extended sanction
Technical abuse permanent exclusion
Nudity, sexual exhibitionism automatic cut-off and ban
Endangering a minor permanent exclusion and reporting

Full code of conduct · Channel rules

Private messages — filtered

Private messages go through an automatic filter. No human reads them along the way: a program compares them to a list of patterns.

A message that is held back is not delivered, and you are told right away. A received message that triggers an alert is hidden, never deleted: it belongs to you, and one click shows it.

Operators are notified without the content — who, to whom, and how serious. Nothing more is disclosed.

Wrongly refused? Tell an operator: it’s a mistake, not an accusation, and it can be fixed.

Were you looking for dating instead? That’s the network’s other door: profiles, a map and the video room. It asks for more — being 18, an account, and a test of your camera — which is why it is kept separate. The chat itself doesn’t change.

See both doors

Beta, and deliberately basic. Several channels in tabs, the last twenty lines of history, private messages in their own panel and automatic reconnection. What’s missing: colors, file transfers, and everything a dedicated client does better. For regular use: how to connect. The history can be read back once your nickname is proven through the reserved access on the Channel page: identifying in the chat is not enough for the website. Closed channels (service, secret, operators only) cannot be read back from here.

Being signed in to the site proves nothing to the network. Your nickname is only protected once you have identified — and it’s the server that confirms it, not this page. The block at the top right of the chat tells you where you stand and lets you identify without leaving; you can also identify from the sign-up page or with /msg OverNick IDENTIFY <password>.

Moderation. Clicking a nickname in the user list opens the actions your status on this channel allows; operators also have the Settings button, next to the topic. Nothing is reported as done before the server has confirmed it, and its refusals show up in the conversation.