Steven Pletsch Lv 1
When logging in the group chat window says "You have been kicked" if I open a second client and hit the reconnect button it tries to reconnect then displays the same message, any suggestions ?
Kicked from group chat
Started by Steven Pletsch
Susume Lv 1
Try this:
Close all clients.
On foldit web page, choose My Page, Edit, IRC, Give me a new IRC key, Save.
Open new client.
Steven Pletsch Lv 1
tried it, thank you for the suggestion, but still kicking me.
Steven Pletsch Lv 1
Still no resolution on this ?
frood66 Lv 1
U R not the first - nor will U be the last to suffer from the chat issues here. they are a joke - have been for a long time.
Best we can do is laugh! Not helpful - but, unfortunately true :(
Perhaps it's felt that such issues are useful to the game.
Steven Pletsch Lv 1
It is still not working, can't get into group chat, neither can other member in group.
Steven Pletsch Lv 1
Well, i think i figured it out. There does not appear to be an IRC channel assigned to the group.
LociOiling Lv 1
Think you may be right, the /LIST command from IceChat gives only 13 channels:
#global : 58 : [+nt] #foldit@netherlands : 1 : [+nt] #goscience : 9 : [+nt] #ops : 4 : [+nt] #l'alliancefrancophone : 1 : [+nt] #gargleblasters : 1 : [+nt] #betafolders : 7 : [+nt] #rechenkraft.net : 1 : [+nt] #marvins_bunch : 3 : [+nt] #veteran : 52 : [+nt] #voidcrushers : 1 : [+nt] #anthropicdreams : 8 : [+nt] #contenders : 2 : [+nt]
I was puzzled by #rechenkraft.net, but it turns out there's a group of that name, with a long history, dating back to 2008, but only versat82 is actively playing.
The rules for naming a group channel seem to vary a bit. Everybody loses upper case and spaces. "Marvin's bunch" lost a possessive apostrophe but gained an underscore to replace a space, to become #marvins_bunch. "L'Alliance Francophone" kept its apostrophe, but lost a space to become #l'alliancefrancophone". Seems like there's a human touch in the group channel naming process.
(Edit: #global does show up, but IceChat didn't include it in its text file export, a bug.)
LociOiling Lv 1
Just for reference, there are 14 groups active on puzzle 1797 at the moment. Hold My Beer, Hun-Magyar Csapat, Russian Team, and DSN @ Home don't have channels.
Zooming out a little, there are 53 groups with global points at the moment, meaning someone from each group has at least opened a puzzle in the last 120 days. Obviously, we're way short on channels there, but then, there are over 2,500 groups in total.
So it turns out this group channel thing is another Foldit mystery. Either channels aren't persistent, or we've misplaced a ton of them.
Here are the results scraped from the groups section of puzzle 1797, and matched with the /WHO list in my IceChat:
Go Science - #goscience Beta Folders - #betafolders Gargleblasters - #gargleblasters Marvin's bunch - #marvins_bunch L'Alliance Francophone - #l'alliancefrancophone Hold My Beer - NO CHANNEL Anthropic Dreams - #anthropicdreams Hun-Magyar Csapat - NO CHANNEL Contenders - #contenders FoldIt@Netherlands - #foldit@netherlands Void Crushers - #voidcrushers Rechenkraft.net - #rechenkraft.net Russian team - NO CHANNEL DSN @ Home - NO CHANNEL
Steven Pletsch Lv 1
I think the group channel will only show in list if a person is logged in for a given team ? not sure. there are a lot of groups that are inactive that dont show. on the group page i tried to get our irc channel to connect manually, and it is listed as simply #
isuspect the issue is in creating the channels when new teams are formed.