Wesnoth chat on IRC

[Development Team]

Wesnoth also has a home in the Libera.Chat IRC network, with a few channels in which we generally talk about the game, keep users updated with important news (especially when Wesnoth.org is down!) and even work on developing Wesnoth.

Point your client to the IRC server irc.libera.chat or irc.wesnoth.org (a DNS pointer to the first) and join…

• #wesnoth: the main channel for user assistance and general support.
• #wesnoth-umc-dev: the channel for questions and conversations related to Wesnoth content development, including WML and Lua coding.
• #wesnoth-offtopic: the social and off-topic channel for miscellaneous talk and discussion of subjects not directly related to Wesnoth.
• #wesnoth-dev: the development team’s headquarters and discussion channel, where brainstorming, commenting on new features or patches, and other “important” activities take place.

Free IRC clients include Quassel (cross-platform), HexChat (cross-platform), WeeChat (cross-platform), Irssi (cross-platform), ChatZilla (Firefox add-on), Konversation (Linux), and Colloquy (Apple OS X). Wikipedia also has an extensive list of IRC clients classified by platform support.

If you don’t have an IRC client or your network or ISP does not allow you to connect to IRC, you can also use a Web IRC service such as Kiwi IRC to connect, or try other IRC ports available for connecting to the network.

The channels above are also bridged to our official Discord server — messages on Discord will be relayed to IRC and viceversa by wesdiscordbot, thus allowing IRC and Discord users to communicate with each other live.

There are more IRC channels listed on the wiki: see Support/IRC for a complete list of Wesnoth-related IRC channels and servers.