some forums i've been to before offer the options of going into chat rooms i think this would be a good thing to add to the site. waht do you think!?
—-Zanti
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Joined: Jul 10, 2007 Posts: 916 San Pablo, CA 
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 02:21 AM
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19194 Des Moines, Iowa, USA 
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 07:53 AM
Well.....we had one, and it went over like a lead balloon. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19194 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 08:08 AM
Well, I didn't mean to be so negative. But now that we have our own server I'm willing to try again if there is any interest. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 3909 San Diego, CA
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 10:12 AM
I think a chat would be stellar! For the uber geeks, we could set up an irc room on freenode as well, but I'm probably in the minority on that one Ryan |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19194 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 10:15 AM
I was actually thinking about setting up an irc server. But seriously I think we'd have problems getting people to use it. The same thing happened for TeamSpeak. (BTW, I can easily setup TeamSpeak again... Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 3909 San Diego, CA
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 10:30 AM
Does phpBB offer chat room interfaces? If so, that might just be the easiest to get people into. But man, I'd LOVE an irc channel. —Ryan |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19194 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 11:05 AM
Our old chat room was a little AJAX app. These types of apps can be quite demanding on the server as everyone in the room is querying the server every few seconds to see if anyone typed anything. However, for convenience (no external apps for anyone to install) it is nice. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 11:47 AM
A chat room for surf music fanatics would be wonderful and I would use it. |
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Joined: Jul 10, 2007 Posts: 916 San Pablo, CA
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 01:57 PM
yeah!! im glad some people are with me on this one i've noticed that a lot of people who post often are always online around the same time, so it would be nice to just open a chat room and all join in maybe. —-Zanti Instagram: |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25309 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 03:31 PM
what is an IRC? and I liked and sometimes used the old chat room. would like to see it return. Jeff(bigtikidude) —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Joined: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 3909 San Diego, CA
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 03:56 PM
Internet Relay Chat. Its how us computer dorks used to communicate with each other (and still do). Basically any user can open up a 'channel' on an IRC server (i.e, freenode.net). For example, I can connect to freenode.net right now and create an sg101 channel. Then invite anybody to join at the channel called #sg101 or something similar. All you need is an IRC client (which are freely downloadable). —Ryan |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19194 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 05:53 PM
IRC server..... Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 07:16 PM
I would like to see something like that... —
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 07:50 PM
Adding another 'me too' response Interactive chats would be useful for when we have immediate questions ('I can't do the transcription and/or play this section..' embed MP3...'can you help') ...it would also be a nice way for those of us who aren't in the USA to be able to interactively compare notes with our international friends (edit)Far better, I think, if we actually had a web-based IRC client available on SurfGuitar101 (for those without their own) and host the chat as a channel on freenode.net or similar. This means the loading would only be on the user's machine and SurfGuitar101 would only provide the link to freenode.net and wouldn't have to bear any load from servicing the chat. Just a thought... —I'm as free from money as a frog is from feathers Last edited: Feb 25, 2008 21:49:42 |
Joined: May 13, 2007 Posts: 223 Ypsilanti, MI
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Posted on Feb 25 2008 08:31 PM
again with the "me too" |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19194 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Feb 26 2008 12:37 PM
I'm investigating setting up a private IRC server. Why? Well why not, I want to learn how. I can't imagine the load or bandwidth would be a problem, as realistically there won't be too many of us using it (based on past experience). And it's freaking text, not voice or video. Once it is up, someone will have to make some instructions for downloading, installing, and configuring a client, probably with screen shots to help our less geeky brethren. There are web clients available, and I'll look into those too. I have seen sites similiar to ours running them. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 3909 San Diego, CA
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Posted on Feb 26 2008 01:40 PM
Nice Brian! Now I just need to set up a ssh tunnel into my linux box so that I can do irc from work I'd be happy to help out on a how-to on setting up an irc client (I'm assuming on Windoze?) I don't know what clients are available for Windoze as I use irssi on linux, but a quick google should reveal a few bazillion of them Brian, do you use any particular irc clients that you like? —Ryan |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19194 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Feb 26 2008 01:58 PM
Ryan I have very limited experience with irc, so I'll need your help (on the client side). I used it a few years ago but not very much. I see that there is a ChatZilla add-on that integrates with Firefox and a few other browsers. Perhaps something like that would be easy to setup for folks. I have found what looks like a nice, small, stable, daemon that I'll try to get running soon: Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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Joined: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 3909 San Diego, CA
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Posted on Feb 26 2008 03:38 PM
Cool. Just let me know when you have something up, and I'll try and hit it from my irc client (irssi) from home. Then I'll take a look at a few user-friendly clients and try and put something on paper. —Ryan |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19194 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Feb 26 2008 03:42 PM
I think I'll get a wiki going for the site too, and we can have IRC client setup info put there. Wow my plate is full. Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
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