Chat Room?

[Suffolk 83]

I've thought about a chatroom here. There's not a ton of members so it wouldn't get used hardly at all but if there were an event announced- like "Chat on Wednesday Night 9pm. I think the regulars would show up. Just a thought. Not sure on the logistics of it as far as the internet geekeology and potential costs but it might not be a bad idea.

It'd be interesting to read some real time banter w/o the benefits of time to censor yourself. Once a week or once or whatever works COULD be interesting.

 

[BarbaricManchurian]

use IRC

 

[palindrome]

is IRC still even around anymore?

 

[BarbaricManchurian]

yes, lots of hackers us it for ad hoc chatrooms to discuss what to do.

 

[Ron Newman]

even the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, at Harvard Law School, still uses IRC.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

use IRC

Twitter has become the new IRC for my friends.

 

[JohnAKeith]

Both sound good to me.

 

[czsz]

Twitter has become the new IRC for my friends.

Yeah I was going to say (in response to Ron) that the Berkman Center people who use IRC are mostly an older crowd. The younger fellows there are Twitter fanatics.

 

[kennedy]

This would be pretty cool. I don't know anything about IRC, but Twitter isn't really a chat room. So if they're similar...yeah.

Suffolk is right though. Give particular dates, and give a topic, and just go at it. Figure a half-hour to an hour, depending on how active everyone is.

 

[briv]

I'll look into adding some kind of simple chat or something. I'm constantly hearing about Twitter, but, for the life of me, I just dont get it.