Author Topic: Private Chat Room Services (Read 2490 times)

HaXtOr · « **on:** December 15, 2005, 12:27:23 PM »

Its realy anoying when you cant connect to Irc to talk to people...

So I was thinking...

We could set up a Instant messageing like thigy on the forum so that you dont have to be in Irc to talk to anyone...

Leviathan · « **Reply #1 on:** December 15, 2005, 12:39:29 PM »

but irc is the win.

and the messeging protocal we use for our comunity.

we could write custom client(s) for it tho.

and how would it be any different if you something else? if u cant connect to irc surly u cant connect to anything else?

and y dont u have a bnc setup at home which u can connect thru? or cgi-irc runing on ur webserver, or even joe could run than on his im sure if u asked him. same with bnc's.

HaXtOr · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2005, 01:21:45 PM »

the ports are blocked at my school. I cant even vnc to my server and fpt is limited also

zigzagjoe · « **Reply #3 on:** December 15, 2005, 01:57:34 PM »

same here. only http; nothing else can penetrate, not even httptunnel.

Only issue is, integration with irc. I've actually had a few ideas on this topic, and the best i came up with is as follows:

have a forum mod; probly a modified shoutbox like deal

it displays the last 30 or so lines from #outpost2, and features a box for input. you click button, it submits the text and ur username to a php script running on OPU|Bot, which puts it into a text file.

every 10 or so seconds OPU|Bot runs a TCL script to dump the contents of said text file into irc, delay 1 sec/line ,max 6 or so lines

crude and slow at best but it'ld work.

Leviathan · « **Reply #4 on:** December 15, 2005, 03:10:09 PM »

Have u evea tryed HTTPort 3.SNFM joe?

dm-horus · « **Reply #5 on:** December 16, 2005, 07:34:02 PM »

chances are you cant download much of anything either. theres tons of web based irc clients, why not use one of those?

its unlikely many other chat options would work if irc is a no-go.

zigzagjoe · « **Reply #6 on:** December 16, 2005, 09:54:14 PM »

you dont understand dmhorus: its not the client; its that the port is blocked. web irc with the exception of cgi:irc is the same thing as mirc etc, it connects directly to irc.

we are talking a web-based one, as in its handled over http;ex. the server takes input from a form and acts on that(sends to irc idk). cgi:irc for example does this.

no levi; it requires installation (impossible). that, and it probly uses a type keep-alive http connection, which the proxy doenst support. i hear its very slow if you arnt reg'ed on top of that...

HaXtOr · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2005, 11:14:10 PM »

create something that links to the bot maybe? ??

zigzagjoe · « **Reply #8 on:** December 18, 2005, 01:38:15 AM »

.....................go back and read my first post, moogle.

Freeza-CII · « **Reply #9 on:** December 23, 2005, 02:25:17 AM »

So your going to have the bot do a massive post in the chan. I see that being abused greatly.

zigzagjoe · « **Reply #10 on:** December 24, 2005, 09:30:34 PM »

no; there would be limits. itld end up as a modified shoutbox; with its base features (bans etc) and adding a longer time bettween 'shouts' and a limit. limited to about 3 'shouts'/30secs

leeor_net · « **Reply #11 on:** December 25, 2005, 12:32:19 PM »

Well, if the problem is that you can't connect from a school PC then I wouldn't even begin to worry about it. You shouldn't be on OPU while at school but then what do I know.

Anyway, I think that would be useful for kids that are on a home network whos parents enabled a firewall to block that kind of stuff.

zigzagjoe · « **Reply #12 on:** December 25, 2005, 04:02:47 PM »

hehe

ive never heard of parents that are that psycotic here tho.

BlackBox · « **Reply #13 on:** December 26, 2005, 12:51:20 PM »

Yeah, at school I don't really use irc when I'm doing work or should be doing work. I do go on the forums though.

As for the bot dumping text into the channel, we tried this before with a 'satellite' bot in Undernet. It seemed quite spammy when people talked through it.

The lines looked like this...
[00:00:00] [@OPU|Bot] <Username@UN> hello how's it going?

Sort of spammy. Also the same way when messages were relayed from Quakenet back to Undernet.

I can only imagine that a shoutbox like that would be just as bad.

Freeza-CII · « **Reply #14 on:** December 27, 2005, 02:37:13 PM »

Well I really dont think this is such a needed thing.

1. Leeor is right people in school need to be in school not on IRC. Because I know a few of you (no names) that I have talked to have spoken of bad grade because you were to preocupied with the IRC chat. OPU is a nice place and all but dont let it interfer with your future like that.

2. Are we really going to revamp the whole bot just so one person can talk on IRC. And I remind you that person is banned from the main chan. Plus this will also take away from having people come on IRC instead of Forum squatting.

3. There maybe some parents that overbearing but all I see is the person not coming here because of that fact.

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