Note:
You are free to register your own room on this server
and create your own community around it. If you need help, then please
open a ticket at our
support system, or find an IRCop on the chat in room #help.
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Important
update!:
Scroll down for important upcoming network news.
W elcome to Chat4All.org!
Chat4all is an IRC chat network (Internet Relay
Chat) which was founded in January 2000. As with most IRC networks, our
services are free. We stand out from the crowd through our friendly
nature, as well as a wide range of safety measures to safeguard both our
users, as well as our services from malicious elements.
On Chat4All, everyone can apply for a chatroom
of their own to invite their friends in, or to run a community revolving around a
certain theme. Such community will be managed by the owners of those
chatrooms. You can read about how to
apply for a chat room in "Your own chatroom".
We also offer extensive documentation of our
services, as well as a page through which you can create HTML code to
extend the chat to your website.
Ideas for the server and this website can be sent to us by
e-mail at
webmaster.at.chat4all.net .
07-04-2008: After a few weeks of
testing, we have opened up the USA based leaf. This new server will make
connections from people based in the USA and surrounding countries a lot
faster. The USA (St. Louis) server can be found at:
us.chat4all.org
Additionally, we have created a round robin DNS to evenly distribute
people over the two servers we have now. This means that everyone
connecting to irc.chat4all.org will
end up on either the USA server or the European one.
If you prefer the European (Germany, Frankfurt) server, you can
connect to the following server:
eu.chat4all.org
Chat4all Webchat users will still be arriving at the European server,
at least until we update the script to allow the webmaster to choose the
preferred server (EU or US).
06-18-2008: After our
Free e-mail and
Free Shoutbox services, we
have opened yet another free service for Chat4all visitors:
Freetalk. Freetalk is a free
forum hosting service based on phpBB 3.x forum software.
With Freetalk, you can create a forum for your website, without
having to install it yourself. It will be hosted on the chat4all
servers, and since we need to have chat4all available at all times, so
will your forum be available at all times. All this is ofcourse, as with
all chat4all services, completely free.
Freetalk forums currently come with 126 Pre-installed templates, 39
languages and 4 different domain names. We are open to install
additional templates/languages if requested by members :)
The Freetalk website:
http://www.freetalk.biz
03-31-2008: As of today, it is no
longer possible to send us support questions or Vhost/Bot requests
anymore by e-mail. The amount of spam on our addresses has exploded the
past couple of months, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish
normal mail from spam. From now on, we can be reached by creating a
ticket at the following location:
http://support.chat4all.net
It is not a requirement to create an account on this website in order
to create a ticket, however, tracking your own tickets down is easier if
you make an account. You can always upgrade your guest account to a full
account. This is ofcourse completely free of charge :)
Before you create a ticket, make sure you select the correct
department (Support, Bot, Vhost, etc) to make sure we know what it is
about. And as always, be as detailed as possible.
01-30-2007: Due to the many demands
for this, we have added an option to the webchat, which allows you to
modify the size of the text inside the chatroom. In case you already
have the webchat code on your website, you can add the following line of
HTML code to it:
<input type=hidden name="textsize" value="12">
The number 12 you see in that code, is what was the standard upto
now. You can change that number to any value you like. Make sure however
that you take into account the people who are still chatting in a small
chatscreen, so do not make the size too big. People who have not yet got
our chatcode on their site can generate code on the following page: "Add
a chat to your website".
01-03-2007: We welcome the newest
addition to our IRCop team: Kowi :)
10-12-2006: Near the end of
September, we updated the webchat with
the newest version of Jpilot's chat software. This update will probably
make a lot of people happy, as it soves several issue's that we have
been asked for the past few years. I have listed a few below:
- Multiple channels (chatrooms) -
As of this version, chatters can use multiple channels at the same
time. So this means you no longer have to quit one channel in order
to enter the next. All open channels are listed in the part of the
screen where you also see the users. Only one channel can be active
however, but if someone says something in a channel you have open,
but which is not active, a star will flash behind it. To access that
channel, simply click on it.
- Saving to clipboard - People
have been asking us for years why it wasn't possible to save text.
This new version of jpilot now has that option. Simply select the
rows you want to copy, and you can copy it to the clipboard.
- Clicking on links - Now you
can click on links without your chat window being overwritten.
Clicking a link will now result in a new browser window opening.
- DCC file transfer - It is now
possible to transfer files between users by means of DCC. Users can
do this by clicking on a user, and then use the right mouse button
and select the file transfer option. This is a nice feature...
however, caution is advised. Do not accept a file transfer unless
you know and trust that person. Also, transferred files have their
extension changed automatically, so you have to change back that
file extension.
06-21-2006: A few weeks ago,
Chat4all took ownership of the "XignaShout"
shoutbox hosting service. Through this deal, we are now able to offer
completely free shoutboxes, next to our already free chat and e-mail
services. A shoutbox is a small screen which integrates with a website,
and where visitors of that website can leave short comments for everyone
to see (see the example to the left). Through this ownership change, it
is now also possible to offer you this service under our own Chat4all
"flag", completely separated from XignaShout.
Chat4all Shout can be found at the following location:
http://shoutbox.chat4all.net
Support for the shoutbox service can be found on our
Support Forum. You can also use
the forum to report bugs, suggest new features and post new skins/themes
for the shoutbox .
We sincerely hope you like our new offering :)
03-13-2006:
After having used everyone.net as our 3rd party service for offering free
webmail for over 5 years, we have decided the time was right to take the
webmail hosting into our own hands. As of today, we now offer webmail
from our own server. This service will be faster, will hold less pesky
advertisements, and will be trusted 100%, because no 3rd party will
handle your personal data. We can now guarantee that we will never share
your personal data with anyone, or sell your demographic data to anyone.
Will anything else change, i hear you ask? Yes, e-mail addresses
using this new webmail service will end with
chat4all.com instead of the old
chat4all.org. One month from now, the old webmail service
will cease to exist, and all old e-mail addresses will become useless.
All current chat4all.org webmail users have been notified, and a message
has been posted on the login page. In case of questions, please direct
them to us by e-mail, or post it in the Freemail section of the chat4all
forum.
10-15-2005:
The complete chat4all website has been restructured,
from the ground up. Some pages have been removed and may come back later,
while others have been updated. Also, the FAQ
page has been extended and updated. Other things that are in the pipeline
are: a new forum, publically accessible and maintainable WIKI and we are
going to take the Free E-mail soultion in our own hands, instead of having
it outsourced as it has been since it was conceived in the year 2000.
07-28-2005:
We have successfully
migrated to a new service provider for the 2nd time this year. The
previous migration happened near the end of february, and although good at
first, the service drastically deteriorated over the months that followed;
Lots of disconnects, time-out and sluggishness. We hope those problems are
solved now.
01-20-2005:
We have rebooted the server
earlier today to find out if this solves the recent increase in user
disconnects.
07-27-2004:
Thanks to Lan^Son, we now have a basic chat4all mIRC
version. This basically is mIRC, but customized in such a way that you
only have to install it and it will connect to our network. The purpose of
this was to provide a basic mIRC system, so it is not a full set of
scripts. You can download it
here. A web
page will be created soon to help work with mIRC.
03-28-2004:
We have updated the
webchat
chat applet to JPilot's jirc2.7.2. This will solve the problem some users
(everyone with Sun Microsystem's Java instead of Microsoft Virtual
Machine) had with loading the java applet. Users with Sun's software
installed, suddenly were no longer able to load the chat applet.
03-14-2004:
Thanks to
Saya's hard work, we now have a new manual. This new manual contains all
commands that are available on our server, as well as how to use them.
Please do consult this manual first before asking questions. :-)
02-26-2004:
You might have noticed that for the past 2 weeks the
connection to our server has not been too good. This all started when
around february 15th, our server provider happily blocked our port 6667
and 7000. This should not be that much of a problem since other ports were
still available. However, there were also a lot of unexpected interrupted
connections (ping time-outs). After 2 weeks of intensive contact with our
server provider, they finally re-opened our ports, and then suddenly the
whole server became unreachable. Everyone who tried to connect, was booted
off instantly. So obviously they have really messed something up this
time. We have tested a different IP on our server, and that works. Today
we will be modifying our server to listen to that new IP, and once that
works we will modify the DNS so that everyone can connect. We hope this
will all be behind us before february 27th ends (takes a while for DNS
updates to be visible all over the world).
02-06-2004:
As of today we have migrated to the new chat4all server
environment. For people who chat on our service, this change will not have
much impact. The biggest changes are seen by people who register chatrooms
and nicknames. For the past 5 days, every chatroom owner has had the
chance to pre-register his/her chatroom on the new server (a mailing was
sent out to every chatroom owner). If you were a chatroom owner on our old
server, and did not have it pre-registered on the new one during the 5 day
pre-registration period, you will find your room to no longer exist. You
will be able to register it by following instructions on the revised
"Your own chatroom"
page.
There are a few
changes as compared to our old server. To name a few:
- -The new chat will no longer have
the ever present @X inside, but an ever present bot is possible.
- -One can only be a chatroom owner
if his/her nick is registered and authenticated.
- -One can only be a chatroom
operator if his/her nick is registered and authenticated.
- -Nick registration and Chatroom
ownership commands is largely simplified, so
there is less to type.
- -Due to popular request, the IP
addresses/hostnames of users are partially unreadable.
The
chat4all website will be fully updated over time to reflect all changes. One
of the items that are forthcoming is a manual to replace the old X & NS
commands page.
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