Grenzland chat

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# Grenzland chat

The Grenzland chat server can be reached at host `grenzland.club` port `6667`.

There are multiple web clients:

- [Wilderland](https://wilderland.ovh/) offers Convos and The Lounge
- [Campaign Wiki](https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Chat) offers The Lounge

## IRC

The underlying technology is called internet relay chat (IRC).
You can use any IRC client to connect!

For macOS and iOS: [Colloquy](https://colloquy.app/) or [Palaver](https://palaverapp.com/).
For Android: [Revolution IRC](https://f-droid.org/packages/io.mrarm.irc/).
Universal chat apps like [Pidgin](https://pidgin.im/) or [Adium](https://adium.im/) for macOS are also possible.

## Role-Playing Games

Our games are announced via [Norn](https://alexschroeder.ch/view/norn), a bot.

See [all games on our calendar](https://campaignwiki.org/files/norn/all).

## Link blogs

[Norn](https://alexschroeder.ch/view/norn) is also used to maintain a link blog.
The important one for us are the [Grenzland links](links).

## Admins

The operator names and passwords are stored in `/etc/ngircd/ngircd.conf` of the various server participating in our network. Each server has their own operators. They are listed in the `[Operator]` sections. The operator username and password are different from regular account usernames and password on the server, and they are different from the nicknames people use to connect to the network. The operator username and password is used for the `/OPER` command to get the `o` mode. With it, you have more privileges. 

Operators can ban people as follows:

```
# become an operator
/oper username password
# where is somebody connecting from (look for "Actual host")
/whois nick
# ban somebody on the entire network (timeout is in seconds, 0 is permanent, 600 s is 10 min)
/gline nick!user@hostmask timeout reason
# list global bans
/stat g
```

Other interesting commands:

```
# send a message to all users
/wallops message
```

See [commands](irc-commands.txt) and [modes](irc-modes.txt) for more.