IRC Chat?
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Hosting a IRC server should be pretty lightweight? What server software are you using @dafyre?
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I'm not sure yet. He's got one that is expiring on him, so we're going to switch to a different one. If you know of any good / easy ones for Linux, I'm open.
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IRC is cool but we are specifically avoiding it here. Don't want to siphon the community off to another place. IRC takes all the knowledge and discussion and at best, splits it up and at worst causes it to be lost.
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NTG has run its own before. I like IRC, it is very handy for a company chat system.
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Except you generally get no record of the chats except on the server-side, right?
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@dafyre said:
Except you generally get no record of the chats except on the server-side, right?
Correct, it's not for things that you want to keep. It's for ephemeral conversations.
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and here there is documentation for all of the derailed threads.
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At Vates, we use Shout IRC (self hosted). Pretty easy to use even if you are not used to IRC. And it acts like a bouncer, so you can reconnect from anywhere, it saves your history/connection/discussions.
edit: but mainly for internal discussions and sometimes people asking questions. A forum is needed to have a real community.
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An awesome chat system attached to the forums would be great - but even better, is a tie into a universal chat system would be best, so users only need to use one chat system for anything they are doing, and not 15 different apps depending on where they are.
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@Dashrender said:
An awesome chat system attached to the forums would be great - but even better, is a tie into a universal chat system would be best, so users only need to use one chat system for anything they are doing, and not 15 different apps depending on where they are.
Pidgin and some of the others tie in to multiple services. I think it has IRC support as well.
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@dafyre said:
@Dashrender said:
An awesome chat system attached to the forums would be great - but even better, is a tie into a universal chat system would be best, so users only need to use one chat system for anything they are doing, and not 15 different apps depending on where they are.
Pidgin and some of the others tie in to multiple services. I think it has IRC support as well.
That's a universal client, he wants a single, unified, global messaging platform from a single vendor.
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I have thought of setting up something to connect the kids iPads too.. not anything outside of my control. so that I can harass them from time to time when they are playing Mine Craft.
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Is the chat on here node based or is it something like xmpp?
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@johnhooks node stuff.
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@johnhooks said:
Is the chat on here node based or is it something like xmpp?
On here, on ML? The entire site is not. Node is the language of the site. XMPP is a networking protocol. But there is no XMPP interface for the chat here.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Is the chat on here node based or is it something like xmpp?
On here, on ML? The entire site is not. Node is the language of the site. XMPP is a networking protocol. But there is no XMPP interface for the chat here.
I've never built or looked into NodeBB. I didn't know if the chat was built with node or if there was something like openfire running for the chat.
The reason I asked is it would be kind of nice to be able to use a chat client.
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I'm sure someone will make a plugin to expose XMPP at some point. Would be kind of handy, I hate having that pop up window open. I know that in 1.0 they are expanding it a bit.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I'm sure someone will make a plugin to expose XMPP at some point. Would be kind of handy, I hate having that pop up window open. I know that in 1.0 they are expanding it a bit.
Ya would be great for mobile too. That way you can get native notifications and not need to open the site.
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We should make a "community" that's all slack based. That would be kind of interesting.
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I am a Slack advocate for sure, and would probably join a "team" if it were put together. It's most of what I love about IRC, with an interface built this millennium
Archival and searchability might still be a concern as the free version only allows you to browse/search the latest 10k messages from what I understand.
