IRC tutorial

IRC is what you are on when you join the chat room. (IRC = Internet relay chat).

[edit] Connecting

The easiest way to do this is use the Chat portal on the http://www.pokemondeluge.com/ homepage. There are other ways as well - if you want to customize your IRC experience with scripts and other things, change your ident, and give yourself a real name, use mIRC. But for now, you should stick with the chat portal until you learn some basic commands and functions.

[edit] Registering a nick

This is the first thing you should do: register your nick so other users can't take them! Some nicks are already registered that you may want to use. If you use a registered nick, you will be "Guested" after a minute. When you're guested, your nick is automatically changed to GuestXXXXX (X = Random number 1-9)
Registering your nick guests anybody who tries to use it. To register your nick, follow these directions:

• Type /ns register password email
  • - Make up a password you can remember. This password will not be used by anyone except you. This is important so you can identify to your nick so you won't be guested.
    
  • - Use your CORRECT email. Your email will be kept private and no one will see it.

/NS is a command that forwards your message to NICKSERV, a bot like Deluge and WarnerBot. No one will see your registration process.
When you type in your command, something like this will pop up:

-NickServ- Your registration is not yet complete.
-NickServ- Your nick will expire within 24 hours if you do not enter the validation code.
-NickServ- Check your email for further instructions.

• Check your email, and find the message from: services@lucidchat.net and read it. It should tell you to type something in the chat like this: /NS EMAILCODE YOURNICKNAME XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX (X = Random letter/number 1-9/A-Z)
• Type that command in the chat room. Make absolutely sure you copied & pasted the /. If you don't and paste it into the chat room, everyone will see it and be able to use it for themselves. After you paste the code in, you will be required to type /ns identify password every time you enter the chat room.

[edit] Basic Commands

Here's a list of basic commands used on IRC.
/nick newnickhere changes your current nickname (the username you use on the chat room).
/join #channelname will let you join another channel. IE: Typing "/join #pokemondeluge" will let you into the Pokémon Deluge chat room.
/part will have you exit out of the channel you're active in. Note: Typing "/part #channelname" will have you leave whichever channel you specified - even if it's not the one you're currently viewing.
/query nickname will have you PM another user. IE: Typing "/query Anira" will let you PM Anira. Note: It's recommended you don't harass other users in PM, operator or not.
/ignore nickname will stop you from seeing another user's messages.
/quit will have you disconnect from IRC.