Discussion on irc-internet-relay-chat

[sirca...@gmail.com]

any chance we can make this web based?

[Alex Catullo]

Do you mean web based IRC clients because the #badassintosh channel is
still up on NewNet.

Or do you mean a web based forum type thing because I very much
approve of that idea. We've been saying we should do that for a long
time now, if anyone else is in I say we get one set up.

[Meester Roboto]

I still have my IRC on auto log in to those channels :P

Im just not on IRC often...

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[sirca...@gmail.com]

i was thinking a browser based messenger that could be used anywhere
without download including windows users. I have used one made with
flash before and it didn't take a huge server or anything with low
amounts of users. I will look into it some more to see what I can dig
up.

[Alex Catullo]

Let me know what you come up with because I have little faith in web
based applications. It's a great idea, I wish we could have a live
chat going but IRC is long established and designed specifically for
that purpose. If Jesse were active right now he'd give you a multi-
page rant on how flash based web apps are the end of the universe and
I tend to agree with them. Thats not to say that there aren't good web
solutions so if you find one i'd be willing to try it, I'm just
partial to IRC or a message board.

Flash is annoying as hell and if Jesse decided to become active i

[Jesse T Youngblood]

Alex referring to me as 'them' was rather revealing, haha. Either way,
I/we am/are in. I was always pretty sad when this group's activity
asymptoted; it'd be nice if we all breathed some new life into it.
I'll be at MacWorld again this year as well, so I'll definitely post
here as it all goes down.

In my opinion, web apps are all fine and good if they are designed
correctly and perform a task that fits into the web paradigm, but
flash is not. At all. I could definitely pump out a few essays on why,
but I'll hold back this time.

That being said, it could be kind of nice to have a front end to the
IRC server as a web app.
Having more than one live chat feature would be sort of silly, and
this way those who like IRC and those who didn't could be in the same
channel. I would rather encourage more people to use IRC than switch
completely to a web based system, and this way seems to solve
everyone's problems.

An extremely quick google search told me that CGI:IRC could solve our
problems; there's also a slight chance I could host a Badassintosh-
specific build if anyone wants. Didn't we have a web server for a
while, once upon a time?

[Mark F]

I want to say yes to that question but i dont hae the old emails regarding a server. regardless im in for pretty much whatever, although i am in agreeance about not leaning towards flash.

[Josh / FifthAgent]

Fixed the irc page to have non-pornographic links.