Re: Channelling the CB

It's pretty obvious that I'm a little bit out of the mainstream when I say that I really don't like the CB too much. IMO, browsers are a poor (but possible) place for interactive proceses like the CB.

Wouldn't chat functions be best served by IRC in the first place? I never figured out why PM wouldn't just echo IRC onto the nodelet instead of vice-versa... There are so many previously invented-and-refined wheels for dealing with chat already...

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Re^2: Channelling the CB by BUU (Prior) on Apr 27, 2005 at 22:23 UTC
At the risk of contributing nothing useful, I'd just like to heartily agree with the parent post. IRC is a far superiour interface for this sort of thing. The only problem I see with actually echoing an irc channel in to the chatter box is that, due to it's far superiour interface, conversations are far faster on irc, so if you only refreshed once every minute you might miss 50% of the conversation! Of course this should be read as more of a desire for everyone to just join irc in the first place and not have any of these problems.	[reply]
Re^2: Channelling the CB by eric256 (Parson) on Apr 27, 2005 at 23:24 UTC
I beleive the reason givin when I asked the same question had to do with names. On IRC you can take any name you want and therefor impersonate people. Yes there are ways around it, I think the consus was that it was more trouble than gain. There are IRC channels for perlmonks though, at least i know devels used to use an IRC room. ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]
Re^2: Channelling the CB by Forsaken (Friar) on Apr 30, 2005 at 11:18 UTC
Depends on how one classifies the chatterbox I suppose. As it is now it's more of a social tool where people occasionally do pop in a serious question, which may or may not get answered straight away. Most of the questions tend to end up in SoPW, which is a far better place imo anyway. As for actually using IRC, as can clearly be seen in my posting history I'm a great fan of this medium and spend a lot of time combining it with Perl and as such I'd positively love to have a place on IRC to hang out with other Monasterians, but whether it'd turn out to be a good place to ask questions is another matter. The only real reasons I can think of for someone to ask a question in CB as opposed to SoPW is because a) a fellow monk that person knows is already chatting there and is aware of the situation/known to be very knowledgeable on the matter, or b) the person asking the question is horribly impatient. Situation b) is a serious case of "tough luck", either someone knows or noone does. As for situation a) I still think It'd be better to create a post on SoPW and then pm said expert/friend asking him/her to take a quick look at the node created, if only for the fact that that way the information might be preserved, allowing others to find the same answer later on. Remember rule one...	[reply]