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Re: Little thought...
Posted by Leperous on Sun Feb 1st at 12:21am 2004


I was just thinking, instant messaging is great and all, but what say ye to an instant messaging system on this site- like private messages, but more instant (you request to talk to someone, next time they load a page it informs you of this, and you can chat inside a popup window...). With the advent of the 'online' notifiers, I think it could come in handy! So many of you goons who I wouldn't talk to usually on MSN/ICQ but would if it was basically just fast PMing



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sun Feb 1st at 12:28am 2004


Sounds like it'd tie in nicely with the online/offline info under the avatars. hopefully it'd let people bitch to each other privately too! [addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Sun Feb 1st at 12:49am 2004


This'll be good, since the people from here that have tried to IM usually end up doing it during inopportune times. I actually had one guy (out of like the 4 that have IM'd me) IM me while my parents were at my dorm for my birthday.



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sun Feb 1st at 1:15am 2004


That would be nice. [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sun Feb 1st at 1:26am 2004


Sounds cool to me [addsig]



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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Feb 1st at 3:46am 2004


i think its a hella good idea there chief....go get em...

Doc Brass...

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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Feb 1st at 4:08am 2004


gets my vote, especially since me and A_S, or me and gollum use the PM system as an icq message service at times..

there have been days where we have sent 10 or 20 PM's a day

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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Feb 1st at 4:59am 2004


Now I know where all the PM traffic comes from.. [addsig]



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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Feb 1st at 5:19am 2004


whatr you thinking Lep...like a Mirc applet or something similar?....

Doc B...

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Posted by wil5on on Sun Feb 1st at 10:10am 2004


Sounds great Lep! [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Sun Feb 1st at 11:25am 2004


Well I do have jIRC working, but a while ago I wrote a simple thing like this that let me talk to my brother over our LAN; was basically an IRC-like window which refreshed itself every few seconds I'll have a play around with it and see.





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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Feb 1st at 11:50am 2004


Wouldn't one that refreshes every couple of seconds eat bandwidth?



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Posted by Leperous on Sun Feb 1st at 12:00pm 2004


Well, if the refreshing page is kept pretty simple, it shouldn't do... be nice if I knew something about Java and could make an applet that loads of websites could install and have the direct person-to-person thing going...





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Posted by Forceflow on Sun Feb 1st at 12:31pm 2004


Something like a tagboard, then ?

There's tons of free PHP tagboards around, autorefresh every second without the hideous click-sound, and you have a good system.





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Posted by Vash on Sun Feb 1st at 12:37pm 2004


Yes, then I can bother people on Snarkpit.

Everyone = Not safe. Lock your PM boxes, here comes vash!

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Posted by Mr.Ben on Sun Feb 1st at 1:25pm 2004


Not vash, for the love of jebus! [addsig]



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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Sun Feb 1st at 2:40pm 2004


Quick, Lep, corner the internet market and monopolize EVERYTHING! IMs, PMs, DMs, EVERYTHING! AHAHAHA! [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Sun Feb 1st at 2:44pm 2004


*patents the concept of sending PMs and IMs via a website*



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Feb 1st at 2:45pm 2004


? posted by Leperous
*patents the concept of sending PMs and IMs via a website*

why? so you too can be one of the cry babies who say their product was stolen..

/runs

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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Sun Feb 1st at 2:45pm 2004


Phew, good thing nobody thought of that first... [addsig]




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