As a follow-up to my prior post, this is a smaller one on creating a SILC chat room (known as a “channel” in SILC parlance) from within Pidgin.
1. In Pidgin, click on Buddies -> Add a Chat:
2. Select the SILC account from the dropdown, create a channel name (whatever you like), give it a Passhprase (if you want to secure it from others, otherwise you can leave it blank), a local Alias (optional), and add it to one of your local groups in Pidgin.
3. Then, I right clicked on the chat and said “Join”
4. Then I went to “Conversation”-> “More” -> “Channel Authentication” and added the passphrase: XXXXXXXXX to create the channel as “passphrase authenticated”.
5. Then I when to “Conversation”-> “More” -> “Set Permanent” to make the channel permanent (so I could leave and come back later as the founder)
That should be it!
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