Using IRC channels as the facebook wall ? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sinaphysics · 2013-03-29 07:27 What's your thoughts about using IRC channels as personal wall and asking friends to give their opinions ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eax · 2013-03-29 08:43 Eh, how'd you handle what happens when a new user joins the channel? He/she wouldn't see all the old posts. So either people would have to be connected all the time, or only see new posts. Besides that, how'd you handle comments on specific posts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Techno_Shaman · 2013-03-29 09:13 Facebook wall allows a user to post a topic and get comments relating to that topic only. IRC doesnt have that function unless you discuss one topic at a time. Unless you had your own channel that people "subscribed" to that you would post your "status" and get a thread going that way. What made you think of this idea? Personally i dont see the use: irc is good for chatting but not very good for organized discussion, imo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sinaphysics · 2013-03-29 09:18 This is just an idea. Honestly, I don't know much of IRC. I think that would be great for geeks to have a facebook version in geeky areas as IRC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sinaphysics · 2013-03-29 09:43 The events made me thinking about this is, first, the blockade in Iran which include most social websites, other, annoying environment in Facebook, Twitter, and etc, and finally, I think Reddit could be great suggestion instead of mentioned SN, but I suffer lacking of a personal wall for sharing my ideas in Reddit. Then, I think IRC by a development would be attractive place for this idea. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Techno_Shaman · 2013-03-29 10:20 Interesting idea. You can encrypt IRC communication with SSL and banning all IRC traffic seems hard to do with my limited knowledge of the system. If i were you and looking to continue I'd set up an IRC network where every user gets their own chan and a bot that posts people's updates into certain rooms that are tagged in their post. For example, Bob posts in the ##bob (Two ##'s to distinguish users and one # to destinguish topics in order to keep with the Twitter trend system) room: "I love #tacos". People who 'subscribe' (or keep ##bob on auto-join) will be able to see his post, and the robot will post "Bob: I love #tacos" in the #taco chan. Going a step further, you could then have a bot post certain posts onto a twitter feed to indirectly post to twitter and perhaps recieve responses. Im not a software guy so idk how to set this up but these are my ideas for you. I wish you good luck in your endeavor! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Techno_Shaman · 2013-03-29 10:22 Also the instant communication benefit of IRC is very valuable for the types of situations i imagine are happening in places like Iran, as im sure you are aware. I like this idea, do you have IRC admin experience? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- prawnsalad · 2013-03-29 16:25 IRC would be the wrong thing to use for this. You will hit issues of people loosing connection, unable to search efficiently, scalability issues and then some. IRC is great for real-time group or 1-to-1 conversations but when it comes to sitting back and thinking about a reply or replying in your own time, there are far better and less- frustrating things to use. What you're describing in my opinion is twitter but with reddits or facbeooks comment system. As a webpage this would be far easier to manage, proxy around to banned places, develop, use, get working on multiple platforms (phones, tablets, PCs), etc, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Raerth · 2013-03-29 17:08 There's a thing called [bitlbee](http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html) which can connect most IM clients (including facebook chat and twitter) to IRC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2013-03-29 17:51 You use a [bouncer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_%28software%29).