You can join us on

• khaganat@chat.khaganat.net : the general room for the project.
• khanat@chat.khaganat.net : for talks about the universe, roleplay.
• krypte@chat.khaganat.net : for technical talks.

These rooms are logged and the logs are freely accessible, as for IRC previously, for 7 days. As a bonus, at log in, you'll get the last messages¹⁾, which allows to keep up with the current talk.

You just have to clik on the above links to join a webchat: it's in your browser, no need for a software or registration, just chose a nickname before talking.

A webchat is nice, because it's simple.

You just have to click here, enter a nickname, and here you are on a chat!

Caution:

• Your nickname is neither saved nor registered, the only wayt to protect it is to create an XMPP account.
• A webchat is handy to discover or for a quick talk, but you won't have as many features as with a heavy client. Though… the XMPP webchat are improving; with movim.eu for example, you can access a very complete tool (and maybe something a bit complicated for a beginner).
• You can log with your XMPP account to a webchat. There are several ways, for example https://jabberfr.org/converse/ or https://movim.jabberfr.org/. You'll find out then your contacts, your prefered rooms, etc.

An officle client may be useful. But it's not as true as with IRC.

With XMPP, there are several interesting features, especially being able to log in from various clients on the same account… hence following a talk from your PC, then your smartphone, then your browser, but still keeping the whole talk in history and receiving the messages sent to you while changing from a device to the other. Incredible, isnt'it.

Depending on what you prefer and your devices, there is a tremendous choice of clients. We can propose you trhee picks to start: webchat, Gajim (office client), and if you prefer to use a console to access chats, Poezio. For anything else, let's join JabberFR, that's where you'll find the best french documentation²⁾.

It's better to create an XMPP account to use these clients: the anonymous authentication is working more or less with them. The process is described in the article about Gajim.

How to start with Gajim? Follow the instructions in the dedicated guide! How to start with Poezio? Follow the other guide!

You'll find a list of XMPP clients here.

• Conversations is very good. It's an opensource software, but paying on Google Play, free if you're using F-droid or if you compile it yourself³⁾. It's the most user-friendly and simple of the XMPP clients that we tested, ideal to start with.

• Gajim is well maintained, quite easy to take over et with all the useful features. It can be found on all the major distributions. It's the one we recommand to start with and the one on which we can help you.
• Poezio is an excellent client but only for an informed audience (console interface, install not always available in the distributions packets). It's the one to advise to people who know and like Weechat. Moreover, it's maintained by Link Mauve, so you'll be able to talk directly wih one of the devs!
• Dino is a client which want to be simple and user-friendly. At the time of our tests, it was still lacking maturity, which caused regular crashes and strange behaviours.
• Pidgin is interesting because it allows to log to several networks (IRC, XMPP). But the XMPP parts is suffering from numerous delais and that causes problematic behaviours sometimes.

• Gajim is also available on Windows, in a version quite similar to the one on Linux.

We have no feedback from Mac users, we're waiting for yours!