if you already have your own client, you can connect to irc.tilde.chat on port 6697 with ssl
-irc.tilde.chat is a round-robin host that will return any of the available servers
+point your client to irc.tilde.chat on port 6697 with ssl/tls
if you're getting a higher ping than you'd like, try one of the geo-round-robins: - na.tilde.chat, eu.tilde.chat, and au.tilde.chat on port 6697 with ssl. + na.tilde.chat, eu.tilde.chat, and au.tilde.chat on port 6697 with ssl/tls.
-or localhost 6667 from a shell on any of the member tildes :) (port 7766 on ~town)
+plaintext on localhost port 6667 is available at a shell on tildes that run chat nodes (port 7766 on ~town)
if you don't have a client ready to go, try using our webchat.
you can also connect from any xmpp client with our biboumi gateway.