Note: You do NOT need to identify as queer to chat in Yay for Queers! The only requirement is that you are respectful of everyone.
2) Try not to ask for personal information unless it's really relevant to your conversation. Asking for general location is okay. Asking about pronouns is excellent.
3) Please speak from your own experiences and avoid speaking for others.
4) Bear in mind, not everyone is from the US and not everyone speaks English as a first language.
5) Any links, pictures, etc. that are sexually explicit need to come with warnings (i.e., saying, "[link] - NSFW!").
By joining this community and the channel, you are indicating your acceptance of these rules and agree to abide by them.
CHAT NOW!
(This is the webclient.)
The webclient does not work well on phones. Phone screens are too small. If you're on your phone, get a proper client (they're free) and come chat that way.
Be aware that the channel is not always a bustling hive of activity. If it's quiet when you enter, say hello and stick around! Your patience will be rewarded. Also, most of the channel's regulars are currently in North America or western Europe, so if you come in at a time when most of us are likely asleep, you are less likely to find people to chat with.
If the above doesn't work, you can connect here. You must change the channel listed in the box to #yayforqueers!
If at any point you need help setting up an IRC client, enter the chat with the webclient above and ask around in the channel. Someone there should be able to help out.
Setup instructions:
[ HexChat | Adium | LimeChat | Colloquy | irssi | AndroIRC | IRCCloud ]
Little known fact: People don't connect to each other online the way most people think they do. If you and I are DMing on Facebook, our computers aren't directly connected to each other. There's more than just your computer and mine involved in sending our messages back and forth. There's also the Facebook server - a big computer that acts as a middleman. I send a DM, the server gets it and passes it on, and then you receive it. This all happens very very fast, but the point is that you have to connect to a service on another computer in order to message someone.
A client is anything you run on your computer or device that accesses a service. Messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, Discord, Snapchat, and FaceTime are clients, because the app on your computer or device accesses the messenger service through the internet and lets you talk to other people.
Okay. Moving on.
Click here to set up HexChat for chatting.
If you can't get LimeChat to work, you can use Colloquy or Adium.
Click here to set up LimeChat for chatting.
Click here to set up Colloquy for chatting.
Click here to set up Adium for chatting.
If you don't want to use HexChat, try irssi, which is also available in your respositories.
Click here to set up HexChat for chatting.
Click here to set up irssi for chatting.
Click here to set up AndroIRC for chatting.
Click here to set up IRCCloud for chatting.