This tutorial explains how one can join online chat at Libera Chat IRC. This includes how to join alternatively with an IRC client program, like Hexchat, and also register a nickname or username so nobody else can use it. This tutorial can also be viewed as a practical beginner's guide to IRC. Happy chatting!

To dear readers, in the emergency of COVID-19 widespread disease, we all needed to keep staying at home but in fact we still need to communicate with people. For that purpose, I listed here several free & popular communication tools everybody can use on Ubuntu with short guidances in using them. They are email & mailing list, IRC webchat, Telegram, and Jitsi Meet. They are all gratis and quick to use and I myself using them for online teaching and reaching people out there. Stay safe and be healthy!

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Do you have a registered nickname in Freenode IRC network? Then probably you are asking how to join with that nick via Hexchat. One of the common errors is Nickname is erroneous or already in use. This article This article provides short instructions about get rid from that kind of error.

Quassel has no way to save its IRC chat logs by default. But Quassel wiki provides a Python program to do this job easily. The program name is dumplog. The dumplog program is free software (GNU GPL). Here some instruction about how to dump (save) Quassel database (chat log) into a text file. Thank you Ramon Klass for creating dumplog.

Do you need an IRC client inside your Firefox? Dislike to install any IRC client such as Quassel? Instead, you can use Chatzilla add-on in Firefox. You can also use Webchat service from freenode.net. I show you how to install and use Chatzilla. In the end, I show you how to use Freenode Webchat to chat in freenode. I use channel #ubuntu-indonesia @ freenode as example.

Chatzilla on Firefox in Ubuntu 15.04