Guest shadieb Posted February 5, 2003 Report Posted February 5, 2003 I have noticed that most of the times I visit this site (loads lately), there is at least one or two other users on here at the same time. Wouldn't it be cool to have a live chat with other online users? Anybody fancy setting up a site or point me in the right direction if one already exists? Cheers.
Guest ashley.flynn Posted February 5, 2003 Report Posted February 5, 2003 Firaas Rashid posted this in the newsgroup earlier. irc://irc.xnet.org/spv Havent tried it myself but looks like youll need mIRC Here
Guest shadieb Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 Do any of you guys find mIRC a bit on the difficult side? I was thinking more along the lines of a link on this site you could click that would take you to a basic site with a chat applet. Don't get me wrong, its good of Firaas/Monolithix to have a chat group setup on IRC for the SPV, I personally just find IRC kinda awkward.
Guest bobroberts Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 try trillian at www.download.com it's a cross thing chat software jobby fairly easy to use too...
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 IRC is stupidly easy to use,. Install it (mIRC), click the link in my sig, click ok at the prompt, wait for it to connect and start chatting. The only other alternative would be for Paul to put a java irc client up on modaco somewhere, they're a bit shite though... :/
Guest shadieb Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 Thanks for the help Monolithix. I will have another go installing it tomorrow. See if the newer version is better then the one I tried about a year ago ;) What times are people on, and is there like certain times of day or night when everyone logs in for a group chat? Cheers.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 People come and go throughout the day. Unsurprisingly its more active in the evenings (GMT), but like any IRC channel the chat comes and goes as t does. Also mIRC will be a lot better now, a year ago was v5.8ish? It's up to v6.03 now as a lot stabler than before.
Guest Pidder Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 I thought of this one as well. I think an advantage could be that more people would be in the chat if it was linked from here.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 My sig links directly to it...:) But yes it probalby would be more active were there a "direct" link.
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 Shall I integrate an IRC function into the site? P
Guest Kal-el Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 have any of u seen the faceparty website? There's a live chat applet thing-a-me-gig - soz of the non techno jargon. could we do sommat like that paul?
Guest Pidder Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 "]Shall I integrate an IRC function into the site? P This would be realllllly cool! 8) 8) 8)
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 OK, it's on my to do list (after attachments!) P
Guest shadieb Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 Cheers Paul. Will look forward to it :)
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 Java client? Make sure you point it towards xnet eh Paul? ;p
Guest Kal-el Posted February 6, 2003 Report Posted February 6, 2003 ooooo.... we could have an sms bit as well, so we can txt for free from the site.
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