Terra Dominican Republic Chat

For years the Terra chat was where half of Latin America met to talk, and the Dominican room was one of those that was never empty. When it closed, the crowd scattered. This room picks up that habit: Dominicans from Santo Domingo, Santiago de los Caballeros, La Vega and the diaspora in New York and Madrid, talking with no account and no registration.

The mood is what you would expect: bachata and dembow running under the conversation, baseball when the season is on, and the usual complaints about traffic in the capital. Food also takes up a good part of the night, which in a Dominican chat is a serious subject: sancocho, mangú, and whose family makes it best.

Joining works like it used to: pick a nickname and you are in, from your phone or your computer. ChatZona runs on its own IRC server since 2007 — the same technology those old chats were built on.