An IRC-based chat
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:33 am
IRC = Internet Relay Chat, one of the Internet's oldest chat protocols.
What are the advantages to this? IRC, as opposed to Gabby, allows for moderators (called "channel operators" or "ops" for short). We would finally be able to get rid of the people who come right into Chat and ask the first woman they see if she'll be their Mistress. I'm sure the women and most of the guys would appreciate if that were cracked down upon. And drama could be kept under control as well. Finally someone could say "take your personal problems to PMs," because IRC allows for private messaging.
We could have a channel set up on an IRC server AND still allow people to connect from their browsers, using a Java IRC chat program (of which there are many free ones that integrate with websites). This way people who already use IRC won't have to open a new window just to chat, while everyone else can keep doing the same thing they were doing.
tl;dr: We should switch to IRC so chat sucks less
What are the advantages to this? IRC, as opposed to Gabby, allows for moderators (called "channel operators" or "ops" for short). We would finally be able to get rid of the people who come right into Chat and ask the first woman they see if she'll be their Mistress. I'm sure the women and most of the guys would appreciate if that were cracked down upon. And drama could be kept under control as well. Finally someone could say "take your personal problems to PMs," because IRC allows for private messaging.
We could have a channel set up on an IRC server AND still allow people to connect from their browsers, using a Java IRC chat program (of which there are many free ones that integrate with websites). This way people who already use IRC won't have to open a new window just to chat, while everyone else can keep doing the same thing they were doing.
tl;dr: We should switch to IRC so chat sucks less
And a poll was made that makes it seem the community pretty much favors a non-IRC based chat. However, I doubt more than half of them probably don't even know what IRC is and many mentions of good IRC features are excluded. End result: users would rather "stick with what works," which didn't make it a very fair poll.