How to IRC
IRC Setup
We self-host mattermost now, it's easier to use. If you know how to use IRC, we're #csc on freenode and there may or may not be a #csc bridge that relays messages between #csc and our mattermost. But #csc is now on mattermost.
Mattermost Setup
Make an account at our self-hosted mattermost. For username, you can put your questid (i.e. your CSC username), although you can always set your full name as it will appear in mattermost.
The benefit of mattermost over slack and family is that slack stores all your information on slack's servers, wherever they are in the US. They do this so they can sell your data back to you (e.g. not allowing you to see old messages), but slack is also closed-source even though it was derived from IRC. Mattermost is open-source and hosted on CSC servers.
