Community
Tox
When joining a Tox group chat, your IP address is visible to everyone in the group chat.
Connecting either via Tor, a SOCKS/HTTP proxy, a VPN, or running Tox remotely on a VPS mitigates exposing your IP.
Group chats require recent enough Toxcore (>= v0.2.19) and a client that supports the new group chats, e.g. toxic.
Public group chats:
360497DA684BCE2A500C1AF9B3A5CE949BBB9F6FB1F91589806FB04CA039E313— Tox development discussion.
IRC
When joining an IRC channel, your IP address is visible to everyone on the channel.
As of 2024, simply registering a nickname and verifying the email automatically grants you a cloak that replaces the IP address, as long as you log into your account before joining the channel. Use SASL authentication to make sure you always log into your account before joining any channels.
Connecting either via Tor, an intermediary bouncer/VPS or a SOCKS/HTTP proxy also mitigates exposing your IP.
Our channels are located on the Libera Chat network, irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS):
- #tox — general Tox user discussion and help with using Tox. Libera Webchat KiwiIRC Webchat Libera Matrix Bridge
- #toktok — general Tox development channel. Most developers can usually be found here. Libera Webchat KiwiIRC Webchat Libera Matrix Bridge
- #tox-gsoc-students — channel for Google Summer of Code related discussion. Current GSoC mentors and students can be found here. Libera Webchat KiwiIRC Webchat Libera Matrix Bridge
You can follow us on Twitter @ProjectTox.
We have a subreddit: /r/ProjectTox.
Mailing Lists
We have Development, Support, General and other mailing lists at https://lists.tox.chat.
