IRC chat

Blake · Post by **Blake** » Sat May 26, 2007 6:13 pm

I would love to have the ability to chat with other people online.

Seriously, how awesome would it be?

This would make helping people, answering peoples questions so much easier and quicker.

Psyker7 · Post by **Psyker7** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:17 am

good ID but i'd proablly just end up idling in it...

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:24 am

There is no 'indifferent' option. Chat's are great, but then again can be alot of spam and other non-sense, not to mention a lot of idle people using up bandwidth.

Psyker7 · Post by **Psyker7** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:11 am

I'd guess you could find a public server that would be willing to host a channel somewhere...

Blake · Post by **Blake** » Sun May 27, 2007 5:30 am

There are some public servers...

Post by **Lowlander** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:42 am

I like the forum better as this helps others when searching for answers. It is more tedious and slower, but easier in the end.

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Mon May 28, 2007 3:19 pm

I'm not so fond of this idea. Theoretical it would be good, but practical...
There would be a lot of spam, repeated questions (and frustration), no reading of Faq-Wiki-Forum anymore because that's "become too difficult", less freedom to answer when you want, ... .

I have thought of an AI help responder that can answer your questions automatically (as long as they're simple enough, and that answers are available) --> this is available for free on the web, but the AI has to be tought first, and that's quite a lot of work. But then again, would people find it? If they want, they can simply search the faq too...

Post by **Lowlander** » Mon May 28, 2007 10:23 pm

And IRC would probably be something more experienced PC users use, which are often people that need less support as they have a better understanding of how software works.

Big_Berny · Post by **Big_Berny** » Tue May 29, 2007 3:27 am

Well there are also Java-IRC-clients which can be implemented in a homepage and aren't complicated.

But IMHO the forum is better because the answers can be used multiple times. Anyway for some situaiton a chat may be useful...

Psyker7 · Post by **Psyker7** » Tue May 29, 2007 3:35 am

I would think an IRC channel would be more useful for the scripting / skinning community rather than the general community.

General FAQ's and so on should always stay on the forum, but rather people may be collaborating on a script or a skin, real time communication is much easier... of course people would probally just use an IM program.
Also a chat room >could< promote a better sence of community

Not too fussed myself, just thought i'd throw in some arguments

meatlump · Post by **meatlump** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:33 pm

Maybe I misinterpreted the question.

I would be in favor of a standard way for MM folks to chat with each other, but against including such within the software. I loathe bloated software and think that programs should stick to their core to maintain speed and minimize bugs.

Psyker7 · Post by **Psyker7** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:30 pm

Hrm... I know that I at least wouldn't want it within MediaMonkey itself... but maybe I misinterpreted it that way as well....

Blake · Post by **Blake** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:51 am

Yeh, I actually meant on the website

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:46 am

I've setup a new chat section on my website...

http://trixmoto.net/chat/index.php

If it becomes popular then I might write a script to embed it into MM.

Psyker7 · Post by **Psyker7** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:15 am

hrm....

I prefer IRC myself coz I don't have to put up with crappy java interfaces (unless you want to)

But I'll idle there and see if anyone turns up ^.^

edit:

System[3:11:23][Private]: This Chat Room is moderated and you do not have a voice. You message was not sent.

Ok then....

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