Foo - Irc

I know it's been discussed before, but is there any interest in an IRC chatroom for the BF community? I'd participate, would anyone else?

only if we can trade filez and mp3s also? :D

I'm in!

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Been there and done that...IRC is evil! At least it was for me. But you youngsters run along and have a good time...this ole lady will stay away.

I don't think it will happen. I remember many attemps before that have just died.

hi565

I love IRC!

Only problem is lots of folks don't know how to use IRC...maybe we should get some kind of javascript client that only lets you on if you are logged in. I've seen that script in the past, but have no idea where to get it. What it did was verified on the board you were logged in on that board, then logged you into the IRC server, and into the passworded channel as whatever your board name was.

To keep people from masquerading as someone else, it also disabled certain stuff like /name.

That's a good point. Although on another IRC channel I was in for a long time, we had a forum also but the nicknames weren't tied together. I don't know if people would pretend to be others too often, and if everyone registers and auths on the server you could do a /whois and see if they are the real person.

Any preferences for a server?

I'll idle in #bikeforums on irc.freenode.net for now, but if anyone is interested maybe we can have an admin here register it somewhere.

I'm going to reveal my ignorance here. What's IRC?

I'm going to reveal my ignorance here. What's IRC?

No idea.

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Stay away from IRC, stay away. That will be the demise of this forum. I've modded a large IRC chatroom, may the gods have mercy on the mods of this forum who will have to give up their cycling to monitor irc.
Plus miRC scripting is another thing people will have to learn, pretty useless thing to learn.

blech. Don't do chat. I feel quilty enough being a member of a forum.

No to IRC!

Come on in guys, you know you want to ;)

IRC is Internet Relay Chat, a rather old protocol in which you connect to a central server, and join a chat room called a channel on that server.

You'll need an IRC client to connect - a good one is mIRC:
http://mirc.com/get.html

Install it, go through the setup dialog. Select 'freenode' as the server in this case, and then when it connects enter #bikeforums in the dialog that pops up.

I don't know about the whole 'demise of the forums' thing, phantomcow...

IRC is crap. I did it for a year, and never again. With a forum you can see everything that has been said. with an IRC, you have no idea what was said before you. So unless your right there, from start of conversation topic, your out of luck. Its a pain to moderate, you have to be very alert. People go and spam the rooms because mIRC is powerful and you can script it, and make it so that you can do things like have a message sent 100 times to flood a room. Its what we call a $H|+ Magnet

The channel I was in on gamesurge was rather active for 4 years, with an average of 15 people or something in it, and I never saw any spam bots. The only thing they had to moderate was people who were being dumb (myself included more than once), by banning them

Who ever said the mods were going to moderate it? Because I honestly do not want to.

well if there is a bikeforums IRC room, somebody will have to moderate it. If you dont want to, fight tooth and nail to repel this plague

I know! phantomcow can be the mod! :D

Well, if they want to, that does not mean the forum moderators/admin have to be involved ;)

Seriously, some times it is a big hassle to moderate this thing. Why would I and the other mods (I am pretty sure the other mods do not want to handle it) want another thing to moderate that is much harder to moderate?

hi565

Ok. Too much hassle. I changed my mind. I'm out. Sorry.

The problem with a chatroom on a forum is getting people in there at the same time. The last forum I connected a chatroom to suffered the problem of people popping into the chat, seeing no one, then leaving before the next person would enter. Maybe this forum has enough people to give it a higher chance of people running into each other, but in my experience, it doesn't work very well.

The problem with a chatroom on a forum is getting people in there at the same time. The last forum I connected a chatroom to suffered the problem of people popping into the chat, seeing no one, then leaving before the next person would enter. Maybe this forum has enough people to give it a higher chance of people running into each other, but in my experience, it doesn't work very well.

With the amount of people that frequent bf it wouldnt be hard to sustain a chat room. People who spam could be a problem but just put some flood control precautions in place. Most of the bf users and the sort of people who are going to be trouble causing anyway, oh well i know i will keep logging in to the room incase it takes off :D

I don't think it will happen. I remember many attemps before that have just died.

hi565

Really? i remember it being brought up but bikeforums has not attempted to have a chat since i have been here.

With the amount of people that frequent bf it wouldnt be hard to sustain a chat room. People who spam could be a problem but just put some flood control precautions in place. Most of the bf users and the sort of people who are going to be trouble causing anyway, oh well i know i will keep logging in to the room incase it takes off :D
The way I did the last forum was to have the site owner pick up a copy of the jpilot IRC applet, and we added a "chat now" button to the forum header that you had to be logged in to even see. We also made it so that newbies (on that forum you're a newbie until you get a dozen posts in) could not see it either, which prevented spammers from seeing it in the event they registered to post a spam.

The applet was cool because you tell it what network and which channel to join, and you can forbid channel and name changes. I also made it force the same nick that the person's forum username was, replacing spaces with underscores. Also, I ended up appending the IRC nick with a forum prefix (i.e. John_BF) in case the person's forum username was a common name that might already be in use on the IRC network.

The good thing is that if you wanted, you could still use something like mIRC to chat, and the IRC channel mods would need to use mIRC. There's an irc:// link that most browsers support that works with mIRC, so with a snippet of custom BB code, you can make a link that people can click on that'll launch mIRC and take them right to the chatroom.

Really? i remember it being brought up but bikeforums has not attempted to have a chat since i have been here.

exactley, the idea was brought up, and it just died off... :)

I'm going to reveal my ignorance here. What's IRC?

:lol: i dont know either :p

Well, if they want to, that does not mean the forum moderators/admin have to be involved ;)

Seriously, some times it is a big hassle to moderate this thing. Why would I and the other mods (I am pretty sure the other mods do not want to handle it) want another thing to moderate that is much harder to moderate?
That's a lot of mods/moderators/moderate in one post.

:lol: i dont know either :p
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat.

http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat.

http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html

oooo cool. i prob wouldnt go in :o