Sonic Retro IRC channel

#SWS2B is the un-official IRC channel for Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta website. Its current location is on the AfterNET IRC Network and is registered under Voice's name.

SWS2B's Tech Members are generally automatically given op status within the channel (despite assertions by Simon and Voice that SWS2B and #sws2b are entirely separate and autonomous), a power structure which often results in more ops than 'ordinary' members. It also renders op powers essentially meaningless, since a majority of the regular users have them.

1. sws2b also has a more 'informal' nature than the SWS2B forums, leading to things that would not be tolerated on the forums being accepted in IRC chat: frequent meme usage, 1337 h@xxor ch4t!, and so on. Most prominently, those banned on the forum (for example Wetflame) can join the chat freely.

The IRC channel can be accessed by from irc.afternet.org. For those without an installed IRC client, #sws2b can also be accessed by visiting the IRC channel's offical webpage, which contains a Java-powered IRC applet. Obviously, a Java-enabled browser is required for this to work.