2009-10-02, 04:44 PM
At this point the forum doesnt really have enough traffic or enough SOM concurrent projects to warrant the need for instant communication among its members.
Someday things might change.
In the future, if we get more and more folks actively working on SOM projects I may consider adding an MIRC chat server function to the site.
The downtime for ipower yesterday is sort of what made me think of it. I got 3 emails from members asking why the site was down, if it was coming back up etc. I let them all know it was just ipower downtime and to chill, it would be back :P
Anyways, the concept of the IRC (internet relay chat for those not familiar with it) is basically a private chatroom that is always up and running where folks can come and go as they please. I would envision having one directly integrated into the site somehow, but hosted on a seperate server so when som.com goes down, the chat room does not.
What this would allow for is for anyone who wishes to sit on here and chat away with people about crap could do so...and any other som member could join in and see whats going on at any time. This would be specifically helpful for any group of people working on a singular project. For example, say I was working on a new game after DD, and several members were working on custom graphics, or music, or map events etc. We could set this chat up so they could all communicate and possibly use a centralized file on the ftp server to all be working from so they could each stay up to date with the project files and have them checked in as they modify them. Its something thats not necessary today, but in the future perhaps such a project would exist.
Some chat programs I have seen allow people to not be actively in the chat room, but when they log on get all the chat that happened while they were away. This would help someone that may not have been logged in get up to speed on anything they have missed.
Anyways, give me some feedback on this please...and Holy, would this be possible to integrate?
Someday things might change.
In the future, if we get more and more folks actively working on SOM projects I may consider adding an MIRC chat server function to the site.
The downtime for ipower yesterday is sort of what made me think of it. I got 3 emails from members asking why the site was down, if it was coming back up etc. I let them all know it was just ipower downtime and to chill, it would be back :P
Anyways, the concept of the IRC (internet relay chat for those not familiar with it) is basically a private chatroom that is always up and running where folks can come and go as they please. I would envision having one directly integrated into the site somehow, but hosted on a seperate server so when som.com goes down, the chat room does not.
What this would allow for is for anyone who wishes to sit on here and chat away with people about crap could do so...and any other som member could join in and see whats going on at any time. This would be specifically helpful for any group of people working on a singular project. For example, say I was working on a new game after DD, and several members were working on custom graphics, or music, or map events etc. We could set this chat up so they could all communicate and possibly use a centralized file on the ftp server to all be working from so they could each stay up to date with the project files and have them checked in as they modify them. Its something thats not necessary today, but in the future perhaps such a project would exist.
Some chat programs I have seen allow people to not be actively in the chat room, but when they log on get all the chat that happened while they were away. This would help someone that may not have been logged in get up to speed on anything they have missed.
Anyways, give me some feedback on this please...and Holy, would this be possible to integrate?
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