New Live Chat

[Valthrax]

I am in the process of setting up a new 'Live Chat' feature and it might need a bit of debuggin.
If someone has the time and desire to help refine it, let me know.

[Bo]

Hello Ben! How's everything going? It's been a while. I'm really glad you got the forum going again. I tried to reply a few months back and then the forum went down.


I'm interested in helping you get the live chat going again.  Is it through mirc or something different?

[Ben Dragon]

Hey, Bo. Things are going alright here given all of the madness being rained down upon us.
I hope that things are going well for you.

Yeah, permanently bringing down all of my servers seemed certain for many reasons, not the least of which being that all of my equipment is ancient and that stuff ain't cheap to replace. However, after some major thoughts on the matter, (and an obvious --and in some cases-- desperate need for sane people to have contact with other sane people), I decided to not only revamp everything, but to go in deep with a serious upgrade... one last time.

I now have the ability to do much more, (with the new equipment/setup), than I could ever do before. Hell! I could probably do voice connections without having to go through any corporate servers... but one thing at a time.

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The SFWN live chat is setup and running, but I can only test it on the LAN myself, requiring someone outside to finish it off. Undoubtedly, some tweaking will have to be done to connect others across the Internet.
I need someone to work with me on the other end to debug it and to make it work smoothly. It will most likely, take some time working together to pull it off, but it is 100% doable, (I've had that up and running in the past).

If this software does is not workable, I'll try something else. In fact, my long term goal is to set up several different ways to do a live chat including running my old SFWN IRCd again.

Right now I'm using an XMPP server for which there are many clients. It's open source and not under any obvious corporate control.

I'm using Gajim for testing purposes, to connect to my server. Jabber should work and essentially any ICQ knockoff will as well and probably ten other clients or more.

I will put some basic instructions on how to connect on the main web page when I get a chance and post the link here.