Just tried getting in myself and it seems to work fine...maybe it's just that not many people use it is all.

Its up and running. Just click on OCTGN Chat in your OCTGN Folder. Let it load up, choose your name, etc. Then hit File - Connect and it will connect you to the IRC channel.

Check it out sometime then... I find myself spending hours in there staring at a screen that doesn't seem to want to talk back to me ;)

I'm almost always there, but serving only.. I'm usually on the OCTGN server.

In the next version you can be both places, at the same time.