Kiwi Biker chat

**wkid_one** · 30th May 2004, 13:57

Originally Posted by Celtic_Sea_lily

I find that sometimes if I login someone else will soon login to chat.

A major problem I had the other night though was that I couldn't login - and the people that were in that chat room said that I was showing up on the 'whose online list' as being there up to 25 times.

I ended up logging into chat under a different user name.

Ummm - you were showing up in my list 36 times!

**erik** · 30th May 2004, 14:06

Originally Posted by jrandom

Nobody uses the chat feature now, as far as I can tell.

I think the problem is that the chat app sucks so much CPU that it's not practical to leave it running, and you CAN'T leave it running anyway, because it logs you out too quickly.

Originally Posted by jrandom

If SpankMe ran an IRC server that required, say, site member names and passwords to connect, that would be most marvellous as a replacement for the Flash app. Whaddaya reckon Spank?

Those problems are the main reasons I don't use the chat feature much. There is already an irc Kiwibiker channel on Dalnet set up by paco27zim, but it requires a pass word and registering a nick and downloading an irc client. I guess the problem with that is that it's too complicated for most people to bother trying.

I think it would be cool if SpankMe could put a web-based irc client on www.kiwibiker.co.nz and have it connect to some irc channel. That way, people that had their own irc clients could use them to join the channel and people that didn't have irc clients could just use the web-based version.
I know it's possible, but I don't know if there are any free web-based irc client program things, or how much work it would be.

Just an idea...

**danb** · 30th May 2004, 23:31

Originally Posted by erik

Those problems are the main reasons I don't use the chat feature much. There is already an irc Kiwibiker channel on Dalnet set up by paco27zim, but it requires a pass word and registering a nick and downloading an irc client. I guess the problem with that is that it's too complicated for most people to bother trying.

I think it would be cool if SpankMe could put a web-based irc client on www.kiwibiker.co.nz and have it connect to some irc channel. That way, people that had their own irc clients could use them to join the channel and people that didn't have irc clients could just use the web-based version.
I know it's possible, but I don't know if there are any free web-based irc client program things, or how much work it would be.

Just an idea...

IRC used it once - wasn’t impressed... and to complicated to use.

BTW how many of you actually use it??

**danb** · 30th May 2004, 23:40

Originally Posted by Posh Tourer :P

There is often enough a couple of people in there. Chatting during the day while at work doenst work very well though....

From finally chatting to someone on the chat it worked very well.. It could very well be that your Internet connection is slow, especially it you are at work and the Internet is shared between users. I’m on a 256k Internet connection so maybe that’s why it was fast for me

**erik** · 31st May 2004, 17:55

Originally Posted by danb

IRC used it once - wasn’t impressed... and to complicated to use.

IRC is great, once you get used to using it. If all you want to do is chat with it, it isn't that complicated, and there are user guides on the net or in the help files. And it's not just for chatting! You can use it to get mp3's, videos, etc. too. I use mirc (www.mirc.com).

Originally Posted by danb

BTW how many of you actually use it??

Well, let me see now... There's paco27zim, and there's me, and... umm...
*goes and checks the kiwibiker chat window in which he's been idling since 8:38am*

2 people.

But paco27zim hasn't actually been in there today, so today it's just been me. I'm not that sad that I hang around in an empty irc room in hope that someone will come and talk to me though, it's just that I set up mirc to open the room automatically, so when I use mirc to chat in other rooms, or download stuff, kiwibiker opens too. Honest...

**Ms Piggy** · 31st May 2004, 18:06

Originally Posted by wkid_one

Ummm - you were showing up in my list 36 times!

Well I know I'm popular but that's ridiculous! Oh and humble of course

**Antallica** · 31st May 2004, 23:07

Get yo asses in the chatroom... I'm bored and drinking a Red....

bah

**FROSTY:Me** · 31st May 2004, 23:12

nope cant be bothered

**jrandom** · 2nd June 2004, 23:51

Anyone else bored right now, log into chat. I'll be there for a few minutes. Otherwise I may just go to bed.

Ho hum.

**PuppetMaster** · 3rd June 2004, 07:26

IRC is a good tool. Its free And its not hard to use at all, type-submit.
But people at work most likely wont be able to use it as most firewalls (if there smart) will block IRC traffic.
Also registering a IRC channel costs, who's gonna pay for it ?

**erik** · 3rd June 2004, 11:15

Originally Posted by PuppetMaster

...
Also registering a IRC channel costs, who's gonna pay for it ?

I thought it was free? I had a look on the Afternet website www.afternet.org, and it didn't mention anything about charging for registering a channel. Maybe other networks charge though?

**danb** · 5th June 2004, 22:58

Originally Posted by erik

IRC is great, once you get used to using it. If all you want to do is chat with it, it isn't that complicated, and there are user guides on the net or in the help files. And it's not just for chatting! You can use it to get mp3's, videos, etc. too. I use mirc (www.mirc.com).

Well, let me see now... There's paco27zim, and there's me, and... umm...
*goes and checks the kiwibiker chat window in which he's been idling since 8:38am*

2 people.

But paco27zim hasn't actually been in there today, so today it's just been me. I'm not that sad that I hang around in an empty irc room in hope that someone will come and talk to me though, it's just that I set up mirc to open the room automatically, so when I use mirc to chat in other rooms, or download stuff, kiwibiker opens too. Honest...

AHH stuff it I cant be fu*ked RTFM

And 2 people in there LMAO.....