[Pikami]

[Introduction]

Sinister is moving it's primary communication from Discrap to IRC
This tutorial is going to show you how you can change your vhost

[Why should you change your vhost]

In traditional sense irc users used vhosts to hide their IP addresses, you can still see this in action on the freenode irc nettwork

^ This is a user without a vhost, anyone can see his IP address (This may or may not be my real IP, be gentle)

^ This is a user that has their vhost set to `unaffiliated/pikami`, in this case nobody but the network operators can see their IP address

On Sinister's network users won't have this problem because the server masks user's IP addresses, example:

[So why are we doing this again?]

To keep the traditions and because vhosts look awesome, look at this:

^ This is so hot!

[Preconditions]

Your IRC nick must be registered with NickServ

[Choosing a vhost]

Just pick something that you like but remember it must have a dot in it.
Oh and there's this quote from Oni:

If someone refers to other sites, is racist, or refers to kiddy activity they'll be banned.
Could give a shit if they mimic government orgs.
I'd just say "follow site rules". We're pretty reasonable. There's a pretty thick line between being funny, and being a dick.

[The process]

• {Requesting a vhost}
  You can request a vhost by using this command
  
  Code:

  /msg HostServ REQUEST some.vhost
• {Wait for your vhost to be approved}
  The vhost request must be manually approved by an operator (a.k.a. Oni)
  
• {Enable the new vhost}
  After your vhost gets approved you can enable it by typing:
  
  Code:

  /msg HostServ ON
  After this your vhost will automatically apply after identifying with NickServ
  

[Final notes]

Vhosts are a nice way to express yourself and get rid of that awful looking `F8F8606E.D106C848.26B0859.IP` or `Clk-75D65E7B.irccloud.com` and replace with something sexy like `pikami.org` (please don't use my domains as your vhosts, thankyou)

[Source links]

https://sonichu.com/cwcki/IRC:Vhost

[Cr3aTor]

Great initiative, since we're moving to IRC and maybe not all of us are familiar with it.