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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:29PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:29PM (#14992)
Are there any costs to run this? I mean resources people etc.? If it's just up front and we've already done that cool but it takes someone's time for not much benefit then maybe we should drop it. Personally i love the logs etc but i could see how it would be an unnecessary burden although it is great for admins.
(Score: 2) by xlefay on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:45PM
As a member of the IRC staff, yeah there are resources and costs (I know, because currently I'm running both servers - which will be moved to SN _IF_ the vote goes through) but it's not that much really.
There's quite a bit of work to be done but that's not an issue at all. We're volunteers, we do what we like.;)
"entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity"
Ockam (attributed to him, but maybe he never said that version)
We already use phpbb for our forum. There is a mod for that forum that is an excellent chat/shoutbox. mchat could easily be added to the forum and now you have an equivalent of IRC with very little extra effort.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:29PM
Are there any costs to run this? I mean resources people etc.? If it's just up front and we've already done that cool but it takes someone's time for not much benefit then maybe we should drop it. Personally i love the logs etc but i could see how it would be an unnecessary burden although it is great for admins.
(Score: 2) by xlefay on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:45PM
As a member of the IRC staff, yeah there are resources and costs (I know, because currently I'm running both servers - which will be moved to SN _IF_ the vote goes through) but it's not that much really.
There's quite a bit of work to be done but that's not an issue at all. We're volunteers, we do what we like. ;)
(Score: 2) by weeds on Wednesday March 12 2014, @08:55AM
Ockam (attributed to him, but maybe he never said that version)
We already use phpbb for our forum. There is a mod for that forum that is an excellent chat/shoutbox. mchat could easily be added to the forum and now you have an equivalent of IRC with very little extra effort.
Get the strategic plan going! [dev.soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by xlefay on Wednesday March 12 2014, @02:05PM
I'm actually fairly certain the forums are being discontinued... maybe we should have a community vote about this as well ;)