SDnet Chatroom?

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-13 12:01am

Could we make this happen? I set one up for SCN using an IRC program (mIRC, to be exact). It got some speed, but kind of died out from lack of support though. There were rarely more than 2 or 3 people in the room at once. But, I think it would work here. There are always alot of members online, and I think that it would be easy to get a pretty good debate chat going here.

Mike, would you be willing to put one up on sd.net? If not, I could set one up and register it for you using IRC.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-02-13 12:02am

We have discussed this to death.
Someone please lock it....

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-13 12:03am

Just an offer to set it up if anyone wants it.

BTW, I never have seen this brought up recently...

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-02-13 12:04am

It's been brought up before. The answer is no, no, no.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-02-13 12:05am

NF_Utvol wrote:Just an offer to set it up if anyone wants it.

BTW, I never have seen this brought up recently...

It's been about a month.
Then another time a month before that....

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-13 12:05am

Aww, why not...

Much more efficient than a board, instant results to postings and such.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-13 12:06am

And chaos because everyone's talking at once.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-02-13 12:07am

NF_Utvol wrote:Aww, why not...

Much more efficient than a board, instant results to postings and such.

2 words: Utter chaos

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-13 12:18am

Chat rooms fail because the reason of their speed.

Everyone is on, literally no one knows who's talking to who and it gets outlandishly chaotic

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-13 12:28am

An IParty is pretty fun though, if it's only for fun. Text and voice chatting.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-02-13 12:29am

Shinova wrote:An IParty is pretty fun though, if it's only for fun. Text and voice chatting.

Cool. You guys can finally here my 'I'll be back' in Arnoldspeak.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-13 12:29am

Great we now know the foru, for me, Kelly & Ver to moderate....

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-13 12:43am

A chat room wouldn't work for debates. If you think the flamewars here can get bad, imagine if you could react instantly to a flame from another member. On the other hand, having a chat room might cut down the number of spam posts in the forums, as all the chatty stuff could happen in real time.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-02-13 01:11am

Assuming we actually did get together on IRC, what network/lone server would we use?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-13 01:14am

Not DALnet. They're being blasted with a DDoS attack right now. Most of their servers are down.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-02-13 01:14am

NF_Utvol wrote:Much more efficient than a board, instant results to postings and such.

Let me fix that up for you
"Much less efficient than a board, instant results to postings and such causing much chaos."
You're welcome.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-02-13 01:18am

RedImperator wrote:Not DALnet. They're being blasted with a DDoS attack right now. Most of their servers are down.

Even if they weren't down, they've got autokills on alot of broadband providers.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-13 08:49am

If anyone really wanted I could try talking a favour out of some friends and get a room set up on a server...but I doubt participation would be much....even with 2000 active members in the SWC (Star Wars Combine) the number of people in the chatroom only ever hit a max of about 75 and the average was below 20 in my days as an Chan Op there....thats an average of ~1%.
Chatrooms cause more hassle than they are worth for some things, they are good for RP's, very bad for debates and somewhat amusing for watching lame little idiots trying to be l337.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-13 08:52am

I use WyldRyde.

Tell ya what, I will go ahead and set up and register one.

It will be on the irc.wyldryde.net server with the name #sdnet

I am assuming everyone who would want to join has an IRC access proggie. If you don't, and want to participate, get mIRC, it is about the best out there, if a bit complicated at times.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-13 09:04am

From my experience as a Chan Op for the SWC and the fun I had there when Op wars broke out....I can recommend team nex-gen's Acidmax More features than you can shake a star destroyer at.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-02-13 09:12am

IF worst comes to the worst i can provide the address for a chatroom we can invade and take over for the night.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-02-13 09:27am

Captain tycho wrote:
NF_Utvol wrote:Just an offer to set it up if anyone wants it.

BTW, I never have seen this brought up recently...
It's been about a month.
Then another time a month before that....

if people keep bringing it up, then obviously there is some demand for it.

to make it viable there would have to have a low limit of users per room...like a max of 20 or so. And i really think it would greatly reduce the number of dating advice and best orgasm threads

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-02-13 09:47am

Darth Pounder wrote:IF worst comes to the worst i can provide the address for a chatroom we can invade and take over for the night.

Ahhh...
Chat room invasions...
Some online friends and I invaded an stitching and embroidery chat room, and a Battlefleet gothic chat room when our old one was temporarily down. It was fun

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-13 10:05am

Well, I have just registered it on irc.wyldryde.net under the name #sdnet. Earlier, solvent and keevan joined in. Lets set a time when we all can get in there, have a big huge flame-fest or something, LOL.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-13 12:55pm

NF_Utvol wrote:Well, I have just registered it on irc.wyldryde.net under the name #sdnet. Earlier, solvent and keevan joined in. Lets set a time when we all can get in there, have a big huge flame-fest or something, LOL.

What port?

EDIT: I'm in, never mind.