Little thought...

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 :smile:

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

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.

That would be nice.

Sounds cool to me :smile:

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

Doc Brass... :dodgy:

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 :biggrin:

Now I know where all the PM traffic comes from..

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

Doc B... :dodgy:

Sounds great Lep!

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 :wink: I'll have a play around with it and see.

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

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...

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.

Yes, then I can bother people on Snarkpit.

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

Not vash, for the love of jebus!

Quick, Lep, corner the internet market and monopolize EVERYTHING! IMs, PMs, DMs, EVERYTHING! AHAHAHA! :biggrin:

patents the concept of sending PMs and IMs via a website

Leperous said:
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

Phew, good thing nobody thought of that first...

It sounds like a great idea Lep... :smile:

Eat or be eaten, Orph :biggrin: Even if you could patent a computer program- which you can't here in the UK because we're sensible- I'd make it freely available to the masses of course, just to stop someone else for charging. Plus it would be cool to have a patent to your name :smile:

Leperous said:
I'd make it freely available to the masses of course, just to stop someone else for charging.

now thats a cool frame of mind :smile:

? posted by [color=#800080]Leperous[/color]

Plus it would be cool to have a patent to your name :smile:

yeah, and i could retain bragging rights to the effect of, "I Know This Guy" :biggrin:

And I know the guy, who knows the guy who made it.

And I know you, so we've come full circle. Crazy.

Cosmic.

Vash said:
Yes, then I can bother people on Snarkpit.

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

Isn't it < Nobody = safe > ? :razz:

How about a Java based chat-room? Not an IRC client, but a local chat-room. We'll just have to put up with the occasional n00b screaming "A/S/L????"

There seem to be millions on Teh Inter-web. And they should be simple to install and run... Just a thought.

@ 2dmin:

Your first!

@Fraggard:

That would work, but think about it. Lep wants to install a web-based IM client to kind of replace PM's, and PM's are what? Private Messages. So, im guessing people are going to be talking PRIVATLY with others, instead of getting into a chat room, and having a bunch of others around, and blabbing out news items they dont want others to hear :biggrin: .

They're actually the same thing, its just with a chat room anyone can enter, with a PM or IM just make it so you can invite people . . . otherwise the functionality is the same, bet it'll take less then an hour and a half to write it in Java :biggrin:

Vash said:
@Fraggard:

That would work, but think about it. Lep wants to install a web-based IM client to kind of replace PM's, and PM's are what? Private Messages. So, im guessing people are going to be talking PRIVATLY with others, instead of getting into a chat room, and having a bunch of others around, and blabbing out news items they dont want others to hear :biggrin: .

pats Vash Slow down there young padawan... Most of these chat applets I see have an automatic IM system in them. i.e., click on a username and send them a message if they are online.