The Drupal IRC channels provide a community oriented way to get (and give) free Drupal support over the Internet, in a chat-like conversation.

The Drupal IRC channels are hosted on FreeNode (http://freenode.net).

The most commonly used Drupal IRC channels are:

#drupal: general discussions

#drupal-support: for support issues

#drupal-themes:  for drupal theming questions

#drupal-dev: complex development discussions

#drupal-consultants: find a Drupal consultant

See the Drupal IRC page for a complete list: http://drupal.org/irc.

Basic IRC commands:

/join #drupal

seen <user>  => displays last login date

Commonly used Acronyms:

GFGI => Go Freaking Google It

AFAIK => As Far As I Know

Druplicon is an automated bot designed to help automate common tasks on the Drupal IRC channels.  Some Druplicon commands: Druplicon: tell message.

Xchat is a good IRC client, but costs $20 to register (free for 1st 30 days).