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Nick Prefixes Explained
October 25, 2009 - 8:53 am
Tags: channel modes, FAQ, nick prefix
Posted in Explanation | 2 Comments
Nick prefixes are the symbols which you see at the start of some people’s nicknames. GeekShed uses 5 different prefixes for nicknames. ~ for owners – to get this, you need to be +q in the channel & for admins – to get this, you need to be +a in the channel @ for full…
GeekShed Certificate Authority
October 24, 2009 - 8:12 pm
Tags: for you, SSL
Posted in Tutorial | Comments Off on GeekShed Certificate Authority
GeekShed has established a certificate authority to allow it to issue signed SSL certificates. All you must do, to prevent your IRC client notifying you of a bad certificate (unless of course your connection is being tampered with) is install our root certificate. To do this on Windows, follow the following simple steps: 1) Download…
Topic RSS
October 24, 2009 - 7:33 pm
Tags: channel, feed, for you, RSS, topic
Posted in Tutorial | Comments Off on Topic RSS
EDIT: You can also do this with Javascript now! See http://www.geekshed.net/2011/03/channel-topic-on-your-site-using-javascript/ for info. We have setup the following RSS feeds that track topic changes. For the current topic of every channel on the network use: feed://rss.geekshed.net/ For a feed that returns the current topic of any channel you specify replace, “help” with the channel name…
User Count Badges
October 24, 2009 - 7:20 pm
Tags: for you, images
Posted in Tutorial | 8 Comments
GeekShed offers free badges for your website to display how many users your channel has. To get one for your site, use the following easy generator: Channel name: Small Image?: Big Image?: Long Image?: BG Color: Samples: Big: Small: Long: NOTE: For a text-only count of the users in a channel, use: http://usercount.geekshed.net/?chan=help&noimage In the…