GeekShed IRC Network
Welcome To GeekShed
GeekShed is a free to use and family-friendly Internet Relay Chat network, capable of hosting chat rooms for a variety of purposes. To start chatting on GeekShed, you can browse our list of chat rooms. You can connect to these rooms using the Kiwi Chat Client above on the CHAT tab, simply by clicking the Search icon. You can also connect using an IRC client of your choice to irc.geekshed.net port 6667 or 6697 for SSL.
GeekShed’s chat network is professionally managed with your safety in mind.
Full services support is available to help you create your own chat rooms and register your nicknames to avoid other people using them. You can also embed the chat rooms you create onto your own website!
If you require help, feel free to come and talk to our support staff in our help channel.
Latest Posts:
Feb 21st: Channel Management Capabilities
A channel on the network can have six different kinds of users. You might think of them as levels of permission and access. They are, in increasing amount of capabilities: Regular User Voiced, VOP or +v Half-Op, HOP or +h Op, Auto-Op, Full Op or +o Super-Op or Admin, SOP or +a Founder, or +q…
Jan 18th: Boooo! Eliminating Ghosts
Have you ever had your computer, Internet or modem go down while you were on GeekShed, and then when you log back in you find out that your nickname is still connected? If so, you have been a ghost on the GeekShed network. On IRC, a ghost session is one which is not actually connected,…
Dec 7th: Leaving Holiday Messages with Memoserv
Want to tell someone Happy Hanukkah and you aren’t online at the same time? It’s Memoserv to the rescue! MemoServ lets registered IRC users send short messages to other registered IRC users, whether they are online at the time or not. You can think of it as a simple IRC mail system. Sending Messages To…
Nov 30th: Help with the Obscure Password Error
One of the more frustrating errors you can get on GeekShed asks you to use a “more obscure” password. In most cases, when people comes to #help to ask about this error, they have tried a strange and random password, but still get this error: Please try again with a more obscure password. Passwords should…
Nov 22nd: Automatically Voicing Users in Your Channel
You can automatically voice all users or all registered users as they join your channel. Some people use this command to help manage their channel. With everyone in the channel voiced, it’s simple to set the channel to moderated (/mode #channel +m) and devoice any troublemakers. Using the setting that voices only registered users can…