# IRC Network accounts

Our IRC networks supports registering accounts directly via NICKSERV for legacy reasons and to allow non-members to use all the features of our IRC network. [Click here for a quick guide on how to register legacy IRC accounts](https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/chat-network/page/common-irc-commands).

We are currently working on linking the regular F-hub.org account to our IRC server via Oauth2 and direct database connection as a fallback for SASL plain. Once the necessary changes have landed upstream, you will be able to directly authenticate with our [Gamja webclient](https://f-hub.org/gamja/).

If there is an conflict with an legacy IRC account, please contact us on the #support channel to have an network admin erase that nick. Deleting it via NickServ is sadly insufficient as IRC nick-names stay reserved to prevent impersonation.

Please note that IRC account names are limited to a ASCII subset and registering names with uncommon characters can result in issues with IRC clients and/or chat bridges and is therefore not recommended. If you notice any issues due to this please let us know.