You can find out how to join our online chat room at naperwrimo.org/irc:

To get access, enter your e-mail addresson this page. You will receive your account credentials through e-mail and be able to join the room(seenaperwrimo.slack.com).

Slack has an advantage over IRC in that there is contextual history preserved for the room, so that people can interact with each other asynchronously (where in IRC you might miss a person by seconds and never know that they had been there at all).

To run a word war, you can go to the #wordwars slack channel and run a command like this:/remind @here Stop writing:hamster: :broken_heart::broken_heart::bangbang::bangbang:!!! in 17 minutes

If you go online, post in the forum too so people who aren't just hanging around in the chat room will know to join you.

--Tim

Tim,

I reconnected, but I keep getting a message

connectbot APP [4:25 PM] Only visible to you
Hmm, your computer seems to be *offline*, so sending messages wont work at the moment.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

Dave

TRRDEDEAN wrote:Tim, I reconnected, but I keep getting a message connectbot APP [4:25 PM] Only visible to you
Hmm, your computer seems to be *offline*, so sending messages wont work at the moment. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Dave

Sorry to hear you're having problems connecting, Dave. Try:

Quote: Test your connection

Visitslack.com/help/testto run a simple test that will check your connection to Slack.

Successful tests will display in green, failures or errors in yellow.

--Tim

Tim,

I am getting six socket errors.

Dave

Which browser are you using? Can you try it in a different browser?

Getting the same messages using Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Oh, well, I guess I am not destined for the virtual chat this year.

I wonder if you have some firewall (since the problem affects both browsers) or proxy that is blocking slack.

You could also try installing slack on your phoneor tablet...