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Join IRCNow
Community running its own services. Here's the IRCNow server address, the busiest channels, and exactly how to connect from any IRC client.
Server
irc.ircnow.org
Port
6697 TLS
Users
≈300
Channels
298
Location
🇺🇸 New York City, United States
IP address
198.251.82.194
Website
How to connect to IRCNow
Point your IRC client at the address below. The connection is encrypted with TLS. Use the secure port.
ircs://irc.ircnow.org:6697
- Open your IRC client (HexChat, WeeChat, irssi, mIRC, Textual…).
- Add a new network with the command
/server irc.ircnow.org +6697. - Choose a nickname and connect (make sure TLS/SSL is enabled).
- Type
/listto browse channels, or/join #channelto jump straight in.
Channels on IRCNow
All 298 public channels on IRCNow, indexed automatically by our directory bot. Users is the count from the latest scan; 24h peak is the highest member count seen in the last day. Type /join <channel> after connecting.
| Channel | Users | 24h peak | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| #Europe | 20 | 20 | Welcome ! Stay safe and healthy. -> https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en https://www.eu-inc.org/ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/ About .EU -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union |
| #Peru | 9 | 9 | |||[Welcome to #Peru a channel of international friendship without borders for the entire universe || Amistad general para gente latino || https://www.peru.travel/pe || gracias por vuestra visita ]||| |
| #minetest | 6 | 6 | All about Minetest, the FOSS voxel-based game engine |
| #omg | 5 | 5 | … |
| #exile-exe | 4 | 4 | … |
| #exile-offtopic | 4 | 4 | … |
| #banana | 4 | 4 | … |
| #/ | 4 | 4 | 7#9Slash7 :: 9#10dennis 9#10eggdrop 9#10fizi 9#10freeirc 9#10help 9#10iq 9#10ircforever 9#10ircnow 9#10nastycode 9#10oddprotocol 9#10plan9 9#10root 9#10rblc 9#10shelltalk 9#10znc7 ::9 irc.chatnet.chat |
| #Mirc | 4 | 4 | 3 ωєℓ¢σмє тσ 1#12m4IR7C 3 12ir4cNO7W12 Ne4tw7ork 3Latest Version: 12m04IR07C v047 . 7126 3from 2https://www. 12m4ir7c2 .com/get.html 3related issues/help, and stuff Scripting guide 2https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/12m4ir7c/3 Snippets: 2https://12m4ir7c |
| #Internet | 4 | 4 | … |
| #lua | 4 | 4 | This channel is managed by Planetofnix.com. It is for discussing the lua programming language. |
| #Bar | 3 | 3 | … |
| #spanish | 3 | 3 | 15,2Bienvenido/a #Spanish: Canal de habla hispana :) |
| #dwshells | 3 | 3 | Welcome to #DWShells Free & Support Linux Shells - for more info visit :: https://wiki.darkworld.network/index.php/DWShells | irc.darkworld.network 6667 |
| #DWBouncers | 3 | 3 | … |
| #DWGames | 3 | 3 | … |
| #Tutorials | 3 | 3 | … |
| #DWBots | 3 | 3 | … |
| #mango | 3 | 3 | … |
| #Rider | 3 | 3 | ¡|[Welcome to #Rider unlimited friendship for everyone, tranks you visit]|! |
| #thunderirc-staff | 3 | 3 | … |
| #perl102 | 3 | 3 | … |
| #rpblc-crew | 3 | 3 | Channel for RPBLC administration team |
| #cloud9p | 3 | 3 | … |
| #ircforever-team | 3 | 3 | IRCForever Team Members Only Channel | Owner = leader, Admin = Members, Op = bots..., voice = needs to finish training |
| #IRC | 3 | 3 | … |
| #telecomm | 3 | 3 | … |
| #botworld | 3 | 3 | bots are welcome, for testing or whatever (non intrusive). Please announce your bot's name and you as it's owner and what it does upon entry of bot to room, tnx ~cmdr_chunk |
| #Chat4fun | 3 | 3 | … |
| #vps | 3 | 3 | This channel is now closed, join #planetofnix, #inspirenet, #bsdforall, #freeirc, or #lecturify to request a VPS |
| #france | 3 | 3 | ⚜ #00,02Fr01,00an00,05ce https://pastebin.com/raw/j0r9PDXu ⚜ |
| #exile-lot | 2 | 2 | … |
| #exile-loe | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Malaysia | 2 | 2 | … |
| #waltuhNet | 2 | 2 | https://waltuh.cyou |
| #ChatSansar | 2 | 2 | Welcome to ChatSansar - Official Site: https://chatsansar.com |
| #oddprotocol-team | 2 | 2 | … |
| #aLbania | 2 | 2 | … |
| #usa | 2 | 2 | … |
| #marway | 2 | 2 | … |
| #freeshells | 2 | 2 | … |
| #depecheMODE | 2 | 2 | … |
| #cherry | 2 | 2 | … |
| #justatest | 2 | 2 | … |
| #izzychat | 2 | 2 | … |
| #mey | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Lahore | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Palestine | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Super-VPS | 2 | 2 | … |
| #PHP | 2 | 2 | Stable PHP versions: 8.0.12, 7.4.25, 7.3.32 · Be respectful at all times & keep your language clean · Use a paste site for code · http://hashphp.org has some useful links. |
| #perl104 | 2 | 2 | … |
| #perl103 | 2 | 2 | … |
| #cows_lua_testing | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Italy | 2 | 2 | BENVENUTI TO #Italy |
| #KSA | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Saudi | 2 | 2 | … |
| #lebanon | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Kuwait | 2 | 2 | … |
| #UAE | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Qatar | 2 | 2 | … |
| #leb | 2 | 2 | … |
| #AHOF | 2 | 2 | 🪐 🅰𝚕𝚕-𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 🅷𝚊𝚕𝚕 🅾𝚏 🅵𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚛 • 𝗔𝗛✦𝙁✦𝗛𝗔 🪐 |
| #DEBATES | 2 | 2 | … |
| #GLOBALCHAT | 2 | 2 | … |
| #NEUROSCIENCE | 2 | 2 | … |
| #PHILIPPINES | 2 | 2 | 🏝️ мαвυнαу! ❣️ 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 🇵🇭 |
| #SIARGAO | 2 | 2 | ⛱️𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙎𝙞𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙤🏝️ 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙜🌊 𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨🗾 |
| #THEWORLD | 2 | 2 | … |
| #UST | 2 | 2 | 𝕍𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕤 𝕚𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕖 |
| #cmpunk | 2 | 2 | … |
| #PhiKappaSigma | 2 | 2 | … |
| #zamboanga | 2 | 2 | Welcome to #Zamboanga @ ircNOW!!! |
| #ozamiz | 2 | 2 | … |
| #cagayan | 2 | 2 | … |
| #duels | 2 | 2 | #Duels Game Channel |
| #minigames | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Christ | 2 | 2 | Pray for the persecuted Christians throughout the world especially in Gaza and Syria. |
| #bohol | 2 | 2 | 12Welcome to 4IRC channel: 3Bohol! |
| #tgr | 2 | 2 | … |
| #ircnow-staff | 2 | 2 | … |
| #Roeselare | 2 | 2 | www.roslar.eu |
| #holdirc | 2 | 2 | … |
| #koronet | 2 | 2 | … |
| #chinese | 2 | 2 | … |
| #artea | 2 | 2 | … |
| #batam | 2 | 2 | … |
| #test | 2 | 2 | … |
| #theasylum | 2 | 2 | Sorry I had to shutdown theasylum |
| #Asia | 2 | 2 | Welcome to chan Asia, | for play games please make !uno and for info games !cmd |
| #paris | 2 | 2 | ⚜ Ici c'est #paris ⚜ |
| 2 | 2 | … | |
| #Iligan | 2 | 2 | 7The City of Majestic Falls in Northern Mindanao |
| #Europa | 2 | 2 | 0,9 welcome |
| #ai | 2 | 2 | Chat about artificial intelligence, machine learning, AI news, tools, and innovation. |
| #minecraft | 1 | 1 | … |
| #mabicndump | 1 | 1 | … |
| #netfreak | 1 | 1 | bsdBased.Net / IRCNow project - Introduction to networking ( https://netfreak.org/ ) |
| #xr | 1 | 1 | … |
| #toronto | 1 | 1 | … |
| #ontario | 1 | 1 | … |
| ##subline | 1 | 1 | … |
| #moocows_lua_testing | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Danger | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Setup | 1 | 1 | … |
| #freeirc-test | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Portugal | 1 | 1 | … |
| #lisp | 1 | 1 | The Hundred Year Language |
| #meetingroom | 1 | 1 | … |
| #hotspotteam | 1 | 1 | … |
| #islamabad | 1 | 1 | … |
| #hotspot | 1 | 1 | … |
| #ergean | 1 | 1 | … |
| #qc | 1 | 1 | … |
| #freedoms4 | 1 | 1 | … |
| #OpenIndiana | 1 | 1 | … |
| #particularist | 1 | 1 | https://github.com/tapioco71/the-openbsd-c-particularist |
| #psybnc | 1 | 1 | … |
| #netflix | 1 | 1 | … |
| 1 | 1 | … | |
| #lecturify-hello | 1 | 1 | … |
| #unix | 1 | 1 | … |
| #gensan | 1 | 1 | … |
| #galati | 1 | 1 | … |
| #haules | 1 | 1 | … |
| #suceava | 1 | 1 | … |
| #worldchat | 1 | 1 | … |
| #orange-team-test | 1 | 1 | … |
| #accueil | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Kabyle | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Algerie | 1 | 1 | … |
| #algeriens | 1 | 1 | … |
| #België | 1 | 1 | … |
| #terminal | 1 | 1 | … |
| #rawalpindi | 1 | 1 | … |
| #peshawar | 1 | 1 | … |
| #whynot | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Peruanos | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Juliaca | 1 | 1 | … |
| #bugzbunny | 1 | 1 | … |
| ##bugzbunny | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Scrabble | 1 | 1 | … |
| #counterculture | 1 | 1 | … |
| #nextcloud | 1 | 1 | … |
| #minetest-dev | 1 | 1 | … |
| #lecturify-ecourses | 1 | 1 | … |
| #wm | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Mexico | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Cristianos | 1 | 1 | … |
| ##angeles_caidos | 1 | 1 | … |
| #coordinarsi | 1 | 1 | … |
| #poeti_svelati | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Poesia_Senza_Veli | 1 | 1 | … |
| #lesbgirl | 1 | 1 | … |
| #CrazyChat | 1 | 1 | … |
| #planetofnix-hopm | 1 | 1 | … |
| #temp1 | 1 | 1 | … |
| #bandung | 1 | 1 | … |
| #TRChat | 1 | 1 | 4https://wWw.TRChat.Com/ :: Welcome to #TRChat |
| #ircforever-hopm | 1 | 1 | … |
| #printing | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Canonical | 1 | 1 | … |
| #belga | 1 | 1 | … |
| #BOOKS | 1 | 1 | … |
| #EALAMANIA | 1 | 1 | … |
| #LETRAN | 1 | 1 | … |
| #WORDPRESS | 1 | 1 | … |
| #devhosting | 1 | 1 | … |
| #NuttySP | 1 | 1 | … |
| #opera | 1 | 1 | … |
| #*status | 1 | 1 | … |
| #pear | 1 | 1 | … |
| #kali | 1 | 1 | Welcome friends to #kali.32 What is your favourite tools in Kali Linux? |
| #kampung | 1 | 1 | … |
| 1 | 1 | 0,12 F 12,15 A 0,12 C 12,15 E 0,12 B 12,15 O 0,12 O 12,15 K | |
| #openwrt | 1 | 1 | … |
| #tor | 1 | 1 | … |
| #wireguard | 1 | 1 | … |
| #i2p | 1 | 1 | … |
| #corellia | 1 | 1 | … |
| #slapland | 1 | 1 | … |
| #thailand | 1 | 1 | … |
| #SoA | 1 | 1 | … |
| #cancun | 1 | 1 | … |
| #cozumel | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Ubuntu | 1 | 1 | The latest major release is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed "Resolute Raccoon." It was officially released on April 23, 2026, and is a long-term support (LTS) version, which means it will receive standard security and maintenance updates for five years, until April 2031 |
| #freesoftware | 1 | 1 | … |
| #FreeIRC-Team | 1 | 1 | … |
| #libreboot | 1 | 1 | … |
| #gentoo-security | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Eggy | 1 | 1 | … |
| #wwchat | 1 | 1 | Welcome to the World Wide Chat Channel |
| #Tawakal | 1 | 1 | … |
| #tembaga | 1 | 1 | … |
| #tgx | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Australia | 1 | 1 | … |
| #cow123-irc-testing | 1 | 1 | … |
| #freeirc-monitor | 1 | 1 | … |
| #technews | 1 | 1 | … |
| #amici&amore | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Torino | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Napoli | 1 | 1 | … |
| #uno | 1 | 1 | … |
| #inter9-alt | 1 | 1 | … |
| #mircitaliacrew | 1 | 1 | … |
| #virtualfantasy | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Zizu | 1 | 1 | … |
| #petrajaya | 1 | 1 | … |
| #kelate | 1 | 1 | … |
| #newbie | 1 | 1 | … |
| #hongkong | 1 | 1 | … |
| #bogani | 1 | 1 | … |
| #GOODREADS | 1 | 1 | … |
| #anime | 1 | 1 | … |
| #yogyakarta | 1 | 1 | … |
| #xsoenn | 1 | 1 | … |
| #darkznc | 1 | 1 | … |
| #turkey | 1 | 1 | … |
| #metal | 1 | 1 | … |
| #satan | 1 | 1 | … |
| #rock | 1 | 1 | … |
| #TorCommunity | 1 | 1 | … |
| #werewolf | 1 | 1 | … |
| # | 1 | 1 | … |
| #SweetCry | 1 | 1 | … |
| #YonleCoder | 1 | 1 | … |
| #india | 1 | 1 | … |
| #dragonrealm | 1 | 1 | … |
| #inspirenet-team | 1 | 1 | … |
| #tilos | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Kortrijk | 1 | 1 | … |
| #anope | 1 | 1 | … |
| #novanet | 1 | 1 | … |
| #codeforce | 1 | 1 | … |
| ## | 1 | 1 | … |
| #freeman | 1 | 1 | … |
| #hideout | 1 | 1 | … |
| #davao | 1 | 1 | … |
| #minglanilla | 1 | 1 | … |
| #amiga | 1 | 1 | … |
| #uucp | 1 | 1 | … |
| #music | 1 | 1 | 4 ( 2♊ 10 Welcome To #Music 2 ♊4 ) 4 M 2usic 4 F 2rom 4 I 2ndonesia 3Request Song : .req Title Song - Artist 4 ( 5Visit 12: 5https://black.bsdforall.org/music 4 ) |
| #channel | 1 | 1 | … |
| #radio | 1 | 1 | … |
| #radio-logs | 1 | 1 | … |
| #shill | 1 | 1 | … |
| #quarantine | 1 | 1 | … |
| #pentesting | 1 | 1 | … |
| #ircnow-offtopic; | 1 | 1 | … |
| #nntp | 1 | 1 | … |
| #radiofebbre-staff | 1 | 1 | … |
| 1 | 1 | … | |
| #Trivia | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Morphie | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Paraguay | 1 | 1 | … |
| #UA | 1 | 1 | … |
| #ChatLand | 1 | 1 | … |
| #siamosolonoi | 1 | 1 | … |
| #IRcap | 1 | 1 | … |
| #5ioE | 1 | 1 | … |
| #eqiq | 1 | 1 | … |
| #hey | 1 | 1 | … |
| #�bsdforall-team | 1 | 1 | … |
| #z | 1 | 1 | … |
| #master | 1 | 1 | … |
| #xshellz | 1 | 1 | Wellcome to #XshellZ | Register your account for free shell and ZNC at https://www.xshellz.com/ |
| #Scripting | 1 | 1 | Welcome to #Scripting for mIRC help | Guide: http://en.wikichip.org/wiki/mirc | Pastebin: https://pastebin.com | 7.75: http://mirc.com/get.html | Ask on the channel and wait, no query! | https://mircscripts.net |
| #Belgium | 1 | 1 | Welkom/Welcome/Bienvenue |
| #Arequipa | 1 | 1 | … |
| #Amor | 1 | 1 | … |
| #help. | 0 | 0 | . |
| #Brussels | 0 | 0 | Welkom/Bienvenue |
| #Dark_Byte | 0 | 0 | ||||█▓▒░⡷ 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐁𝐘𝐓𝐄 ⢾░▒▓█|||| ||||||█▓▒░⡷ 𝙳𝙾 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝚂𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝙿𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚁𝙺 𝚂𝙸𝙳𝙴 ⢾░▒▓█|||||| |
| #PuTTY | 0 | 0 | most reliable since 2000 |
| #DXmachina | 0 | 0 | Ex-machina |
| #Transilvania | 0 | 0 | visit the carpathian garden https://www.viatransilvanica.com/en/ if you like hiking than this should be your trip |
| #transylvania | 0 | 0 | visit the carpathian garden http://www.romania.travel/en/ |
| #testi | 0 | 0 | … |
| #kiwiirc-default | 0 | 0 | … |
| #sfdghfds | 0 | 0 | . |
| #english | 0 | 0 | Learn the English language. A place to discuss grammar, pronunciation, accents, slang and much more! |
| #fix_your_connection | 0 | 0 | if you were sent here, that means your connection was spotty and you should fix it |
| #❄ | 0 | 0 | … |
| #roulette | 0 | 0 | … |
| #AFWIlearning | 0 | 0 | … |
| #firebot | 0 | 0 | … |
| #lol | 0 | 0 | #lol-botserv #lol-chanserv #lol-global #lol-hostserv #lol-memoserv #lol-nickserv They all can be assigned to channels. |
| #sciencenews | 0 | 0 | … |
| #main/replirc | 0 | 0 | Only seven months away from ReplIRC's 3rd birthday! 🎉 |
| #chaos | 0 | 0 | +k :+k :+k :+k :+k :+k e2!*@* 0 : |
| #main | 0 | 0 | This webchat is broken, try https://9pfs.repl.co/thelounge instead |
| #dice | 0 | 0 | Roll Dice! |
| #amc | 0 | 0 | … |
| #hyacinth | 0 | 0 | Welcome to the personal channel of Yiming! No porn, no piracy and no racism here, thank you. |
| #9pfs-join-logs | 0 | 0 | … |
| #random | 0 | 0 | Be a random person! |
| #counting/replirc | 0 | 0 | … |
| #lgbt | 0 | 0 | For LGBT+ people, allies welcome |
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About IRCNow
Community running its own services. IRCNow is an independent public IRC network with around 300 users.
Official website: ircnow.org
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Frequently asked questions
- What is the server address of IRCNow?
- IRCNow is reachable at
ircs://irc.ircnow.org:6697. Hostnameirc.ircnow.org, port6697over TLS/SSL. - Is IRCNow free?
- Yes, it's a free, public IRC network. No account is required to start chatting.
- How do I join a channel?
- After connecting, type
/join #channelnamein your client.