Connecting and Reconnecting

Connecting & Reconnecting

What the colored dot means

• 🟢 Green — connected
• 🟡 Yellow — connecting or registering
• ⚪ Grey — offline

If the connection drops

With Reconnect automatically on, Relay redials by itself: it waits 2 seconds, then 4, 8, 16… up to 5 minutes between tries, and narrates what it's doing in the server console. Your channels are rejoined automatically once you're back.

Pressing Disconnect yourself stops the redialing — Relay only reconnects when the drop wasn't your idea.

On Connect — things Relay does for you each time

Run order: user modes → commands → pause → channel joins. Your login always happens before you re-enter rooms — the same order applies after an automatic reconnect.

• User modes — toggles like +x (hide your internet address on Undernet — recommended). Set once, applied every connect.
• Commands — a list run on every connect, e.g. logging into the X service. Each command can wait a few seconds before running; the whole list finishes before any channel is joined. Use %nick% to mean your current nickname.
• Delay before joining — an extra pause between commands and joins, for logins that need a moment.
• Auto-join channels — the rooms Relay enters for you on every connect.