About Yudum

Yudum is a chat network and a social platform at the same time. People come for the rooms, the radio, the games or the feed; it is one account for all of it. Anyone is welcome from anywhere: #lobby is our English-speaking room, and there are hundreds more to explore.

Our story in short

Yudum was founded in 1998 by iNKa as an independent IRC server, in the days when almost everyone connected through mIRC. It grew through the web-chat and internet-radio years, spent a period merged with the HybridIRC network, and now runs entirely on its own infrastructure again. The full story is on our history page.

Built by us, not assembled

Yudum runs entirely on software we wrote. We do not use an off-the-shelf IRC daemon or a ready-made services package: from the chat server to the website, from the services to the web chat, every layer is part of a single application that belongs to us.

Why write it all ourselves? Off-the-shelf software could not do the things we wanted — chat and a social network sharing one account, voice and video in the browser with no plugin, our own broadcasting stack. So we wrote them.

What we are here for

Yudum is entirely volunteer-run. There is no subscription and nothing behind a paywall; the aim is simply to keep a free, dependable place to talk. We care about open conversation, about being reachable from any device, and about giving people a space where they can say what they think.

Related projects

Yudum worked with HybridIRC in the past; today it runs independently on its own infrastructure. We also have a historical connection with Zeytin.Net.

Contact

General support: [email protected]
Business and partnerships: [email protected]
Abuse reports: [email protected]
Or use our contact form.