Document how to use IRC clients

[scottgonzalez]

http://irc.jquery.org/irc-help/ suggests specific IRC clients, but doesn't explain how to connect to freenode and the individual channels once installed.

[arthurvr]

Are there any good resources/posts about this we could link to instead? I think a simple link to one would be enough. Documenting how to use IRC clients seems out of the scope of this site, isn't it?

[robertmaxrees]

We might want to either link directly to the different clients' help pages or (even better imo) simply tell people the server/channel and then maybe link into any relevant resources on the freenode website. I feel like the material is already out there - if their client is giving them trouble, they should be able to figure out how to fix it.

[xfq]

Richard Esplin's Getting Started with Freenode IRC is a helpful guide. Both WPD and movethewebforward.org
link to this article.

Mozilla's IRC introduction page also has many useful information for choosing/registering a nickname, joining channels, sending private messages, etc.

The Fedora Project has a great FAQ on how to use IRC: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Channel_FAQ

IRChelp.org includes FAQs, primers, technical guides, plus many other useful things about IRC.

IRC.org offers technical and historical documents about IRC.

Freenode's FAQ: https://freenode.net/faq.shtml

IRCBeginner.com contains some documents and FAQs for the beginner, although it hasn't been updated for ~10 years.

[arthurvr]

Thanks for the links @xfq.