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Why there is always nobody on IRC? There are over 240000 members. There isn’t even one member on?  :ahhh:



Chris Yiu
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CPU: AMD Phenom II x6 1055T 2.8GHz
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never heard of it?



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http://area.autodesk.com
port 6666

Go into your user profile, your irc ‘nick’ is as the bottom of the page. To log onto the irc server you need that name and the same password you use for these forums.

To answer the original question…
Few people even know about it because the original announcement on the Home page has long since scrolled off.
There will be some who know it exists, but not what IRC even is.
Most here are professional users - most companies block things like IRC and other instant messaging services.
For those of us who do know it exists and are able to access it, it tends to turn very quickly into an online support session - at least with the forum we can take the time to look at a problem and reply accordingly in our own time. Being put “on the spot” to answer questions immediately is not fun believe me. As a consequence of all the above there are very few users.



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Actually, this is what you have mentioned before. In addition, their licenses expired, right?



Chris Yiu
3ds max 2011
Vue 8 Xstream
Window 7 64-bit
CPU: AMD Phenom II x6 1055T 2.8GHz
RAM: ADATA 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
Display card:Geforce 9600GT 1GB

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