|hi ~zod

No, no. We want this to be easier. Did you get an error when joining /urbit-help? What exact command did you run? @zodisok can also help.

No error, but the expected output called out in the docs doesn't happen. After doing ;join /urbit-help in Talk mode, I see that command echoed back prefixed with ------------|, but nothing else.

Same thing happened to me. My first guess was that the free comet I got is not allowed to chat, but google didn't give me an answer to that so idk :/

just to check, ;join /urbit-help wouldn't get you to the correct channel – have you tried ;join ~dopzod/urbit-help?

Same behavior, with a '~dopzod not responding still trying' message after a minute or so.

I gave that a try, still no luck. Those messages may have been me restarting the host unless they go on a lot longer. Are there any other connectivity tests I can do from my side? I can `|hi ~zod` and get a success message, but apparently no others.

Yeah, it's continuous – there are hundreds of them. Something to try: run `|hi ~dopzod`. If that works, run `|nuke ~dopzod` to block the connection, wait a few minutes, then run `|nuke ~dopzod` again. Essentially turn it off and turn it on again.