Once you have created an account you can access any chat room on this website. If you already have an account, simply log in to start chatting.

We have included many features in our chat client:

User List: You can see all of the other chatters in the room by clicking on the blue “Users List” bar. Clicking on any username in this window will reveal buttons for interacting with that person in chat. The “Users List” shows the different types of users:

Room List: If a chat room is full, you can join the other rooms for that channel by clicking the “Rooms” menu at the top of the chat.

• Staff: These are Justin.tv employees.
• Admins: These are a group of dedicated volunteers who have moderation abilities and have been around the site for a while and know the ropes.
• Moderators: A moderator is some one that has the ability to moderate your chat room. They can ban users, purge comments and help take care of your room.
• Voiced Viewers: When you have slow mode on, voiced viewers (as well as Staff, Admins and Mods) can chat at regular speed.

Ignore: Once you have chosen a user from the list, click “Ignore” to never read other word from that person. If you made a mistake, clicking their name again will reveal an “Unignore” button (you will be able to find their nickname in the user list mentioned above).

Room List: If a chat room is full, you can join the other rooms for that channel by clicking the “Rooms” link in the “Options” menu.

Slow Mode: (This feature is for the channel owner and moderators only) Turning on slow mode means that only users with Voice or Moderators are able to speak at a normal rate. Other users will only be able to send messages once every minute or two. Turn on this mode if you are being spammed or if messages are going too fast. If you are a moderator, you can enable or disable this mode by opening the “Moderate” menu and choosing “Slow On” or “Slow Off.” To voice a user, click on their username and press “Voice” or “Unvoice” (For users in IRC, Slow Mode can be activated with /mode #roomname +m and deactivated with /mode #roomname -m)

Friends Only: (This feature is for the channel owner and moderators only) Turning on “Friends Only” keeps people who aren’t on the channel owner’s Friends List from chatting in your room. If you are a moderator, you can enable or disable this mode by opening the “Moderate” menu and choosing “Friends Only On” or “Friends Only Off”

Adding Moderators: To add a moderator to your chat room capable of banning and giving timeouts to users, simply click the user’s name in chat, and click the blue “Mod” button. Alternatively you can type “/mod username” and press “Send” in your chat.

If you are interested in becoming a mod in one of your favorite channels, we recommend you request the channel owner add you as a Mod after you’ve spent some time in their room and they’ve gotten to know you a bit.

We have more features lined up and we are always open to your suggestions!

Desktop IRC Clients

If our on-site chat client just doesn’t cut it, you can access our chat rooms through most of the free IRC clients found on the web. To get started, copy your Irc Password (referenced later as irc_password) from the Users window after logging in. Note: the server currently requires that all usernames be lowercase! Make sure not to use and capital letters when logging in.

Below is a short list of applications and the best ways we’ve found to authenticate with our server.

mIRC:

This feature-rich client is the standard on windows. http://www.mirc.com/get.html

To Authenticate: Under “Connect” enter your username from the site. Choose “Servers” from the list on the left. Click “Add.” Enter irc.justin.tv as the IRC Server and in the “Password” box enter the same password you use for Justin.tv in your web browser. Click “Add.” Click “Select.” Click “Connect to server.” Now you can join some rooms and chat

Colloquy:

The standard for Mac users with an easy-to-use interface. http://colloquy.info/downloads.html

To Authenticate: Create a new connection. Enter your justin.tv username in the “Nickname” box. In the “Chat Server” box, type irc.justin.tv. Check the “Remember this connection” box, and press the arrow next to “Details”. The “Chat Server Port” box should show “6667″. In the “Username” box enter your justin.tv username once again. In the “Server Password” box, type in the same password you use for Justin.tv in your web browser. Click “Connect”. To join a channel’s chat, click “Join”. From here you can either type the name of the channel you would like to join, or click the arrow to display a full list of all the Justin.tv chat rooms.

xChat:

A very straight-forward application with linux support. http://www.xchat.org/download/

To Authenticate: Under “User Information”, type your Justin.tv username into all of the boxes. Click “Add” under “Networks”, and type in a name for this connection (“Justin.tv” for example). Next, click “Edit”. Under the “Servers for…” box click “Edit”. Change “newserver/6667″ to irc.justin.tv/6667. In the “Server password” enter the same password you use for Justin.tv in your web browser. Click “Close” and then click “Connect”. You can now join a channel by typing the name of the channel into the “Join this channel” box.

Chatzilla:

http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/

A plug-in for the flexible Firefox web browser.

To Authenticate:
simply enter “/server irc.justin.tv:6667 username irc_password” into the bottom of the window

Irssi:

http://irssi.org/download

Unix based console version of an IRC client. Not suggested for new users.

To Authenticate:
in the command line, enter “/connect irc.justin.tv 6667 username irc_password” when you are ready to go.

Not supported:

Icechat (if anyone has had luck, let us know!)

Pocket IRC (currently testing)

Chat Guidelines

Chat rooms are moderated to provide a clean chatting environment. Currently our chat rooms are moderated by volunteer fans taking their own time to regulate, but really, self-moderation is the responsibility of everyone. In the future we will have a more standardized system for moderating chat.

Inappropriate chat behavior includes all forms of spam, excessive profanity (any profanity in moderated chat), and any derogatory or racial comment or activity. Depending on the severity of the violation, moderators have the discretion to either kick you from the room temporarily or ban you from chat all together.

Chat Emoticons

Type the following key commands for some fun emotions in chat!

Cool B)

Angry >(

Horny <3

Skeptical :/

Wink

Happy

Sad

Excited :O

Bored :Z

Drunk o_O

Raspberry

Pirate R)

If you have trouble with this guide or suggestions for chat, please email tia-marie@justin.tv or bill@justin.tv and we’ll try to help you out!