White text on a black background reads: 'Fireseed Live, Speak like it's 1995!'. The image has a sepia tone to add to the vintage vibe.

It's live! It's live!

Welcome to Fireseed Live, the online chat service powered by Seedy!

Fireseed Live is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) service where you can safely and freely talk about anything and everything. It's traditional online chat with an old-school vibe!

How do I connect?

There are 2 ways you can connect to Fireseed Live and join in the conversation. The first way is to use the web chat link below. This will take you to a browser-based IRC client.

When the page loads, you should land on the nickname field. If not, press tab until you find it. Your nickname is how you will be identified by others in the chat. It can be anything you like, so long as it doesn't contain spaces.
Next, tab to the channel field and specify a channel you'd like to join. Think of an IRC server as a house, and channels as rooms where people go to chat about different things.

The table below lists some of the available channels on FSL. More channels will be added as time goes by. For accessibility, the table has been keyed. This means that screen reader users will have column and row headers read out to them as they scroll down the table, so they always know what they're looking at.

Channel	Topic
#AudioGames	This channel is for discussions about audio games, computer games that primarily use sound as a means of experiencing the game.
#general	This channel is for general chatter. Keep it clean, please! Remember to stick within the rules. You can see the rules by typing /rules in the chat box.
#RetroTech	This is a safe space to chat about vintage, classic hardware or software without fear of society being ashamed of you for being outmoded or obsolete. Do you still wish you had that Packard Bell you had as a child? Are you still using Windows XP, 2000, 98 or 95 and refuse to let them go? This channel is for you!

Once you've filled out the nickname and channel fields, tab to the connect button and press space or enter. You will then be securely connected to the chat server. All data sent between client and server is encrypted, meaning it cannot be seen by outside hackers and snoopers. If the data was intercepted by someone on the outside, it would just be a mess of jumbled numbers and letters. Getting the original data would require a hell of a lot of time and computing power.

If you don't like the web-based client, you can use the following details in your favourite IRC client to connect to FSL.

Host name: live.houseoffireseed.ml
Port: 6060
Secure SSL/TLS port: 7501

A note on passwords

While the web client has a password checkbox, and your IRC client might give you the option to enter a password when connecting, for general users a password is not required. However, password or no password, your data will still be encrypted with SSL/TLS if you connect on port 7501.

Some useful IRC commands

To send a private message to a specific user on FSL, in the chat box, type
/msg [nickname] [message]
. For example,
/msg Simon Hello Simon, I'm Bob.
To change your nickname at any time, type
/nick [new nickname]
. For example,
/nick tactical_nuke2005
To do an emote, use the
/me [emote]
command. For example,
/me sighs loudly
. In chat, this would appear as
[nickname] sighs loudly
finally, to find out what channels are available to join, including their topics, type
/list
. Lists show up differently depending on your IRC client and its configuration, but they typically include the name of the channel, the channel's topic, and operator or server-set channel modes.
To join an IRC channel, type
/join \channel
.
To leave an IRC channel, type
/part. Part is short for depart, meaning to leave or walk away from something.
To log out of the chat entirely, type
/quit
or
/disconnect
. You will then be disconnected from the server.
To connect to a server manually, without using any connection dialogues in your IRC client, type
/server [hostname/IP]:[port]
. Or, to connect through SSL, type
/server [hostname/IP] +[port]
. For instance, to connect to Fireseed Live through SSL port 7501, type
/server live.houseoffireseed.ml +7501
.

So, are you ready? Connect to Fireseed Live!