This does require either an IRC client or a web-based thingamajig, and I do not know how to make or make accessible the latter. Mibbit exists, but apparently does not work on Freenode, though it does work on Slashnet. Those being the only two IRC networks I have any degree of familiarity with. The wikihow link assures me Freenode has built-in webchat, though.
Nor do I know how to make a channel permanent, come to that, rather than only existing when someone's in it. But I'm on IRC basically all the time my computer's on, on Freenode (where I hang out in #dreamwidth) and Slashnet (#yuletide), so as long as someone on the network of our choice hasn't already got whatever we decide to name the IRC channel, we are golden.
There is also Slack, which functions similarly to IRC with a web-based client except that it keeps logs such that if I log out of Slack and someone says something in the channel and I log back in and rejoin the channel, I can see what the someone said. But I do not know how to set up Slack. And I have no idea about comparative accessibility versus IRC.
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This does require either an IRC client or a web-based thingamajig, and I do not know how to make or make accessible the latter. Mibbit exists, but apparently does not work on Freenode, though it does work on Slashnet. Those being the only two IRC networks I have any degree of familiarity with. The wikihow link assures me Freenode has built-in webchat, though.
Nor do I know how to make a channel permanent, come to that, rather than only existing when someone's in it. But I'm on IRC basically all the time my computer's on, on Freenode (where I hang out in #dreamwidth) and Slashnet (#yuletide), so as long as someone on the network of our choice hasn't already got whatever we decide to name the IRC channel, we are golden.
There is also Slack, which functions similarly to IRC with a web-based client except that it keeps logs such that if I log out of Slack and someone says something in the channel and I log back in and rejoin the channel, I can see what the someone said. But I do not know how to set up Slack. And I have no idea about comparative accessibility versus IRC.