The FSM Chat experiment was a success – over 200 registered users in the first 24 hours. But, it was too slow and it was killing the server. So I’m going to install a faster, better chat service. I’m hoping that it will be up by tomorrow.
FSM Chat update
Thanks for doing that, Bobby. I know that lots of Pastafarians are really enjoying it! I wish I had the time to participate in the chat — anyone got an extra 24 hours a day they could loan me??
yay. I like it a lot, don’t have enough time for it really, but chatter away anyway. So far I’ve had a talk on languages, movies, books, the weather and some nonsense. But all enjoyable.
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So thanks, Bobby.
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Beth, sorry, I’m a bit short on time myself. Maybe one of the pirates?
@RDPK
Sorry, all the pirates are extremely busy chasing giraffes.
DPG, do be carefull, they can give a mean kick and bash your head in!
http://www.pastafarianizm.blog.onet.pl – come and see
Don’t speak or read Polish, but I like the picture at the top of the page ami. Yours? If so, great piece of work.
Will we be able to keep our avatar? I’ve already grown accustomed to it… Off-topic: the neighbours complain about the giraffes peeking into their kitchen!
What about using IRC? It’s a scalable, open chat protocol that has ruled the Free Real Time Text-Based Messaging department of the interwebs since the end of the cold war. With large already existing server networks such as FreeNode that can handle hundreds of thousands of users it is really awesome compared to what you tried before. In adddition to easy to use web clients such as the one FreeNode provides (http://java.freenode.net//index.php?channel=enterthenameofyourchannelhere) there are lots of free (as in speech) irc clients out there for almost any hardware platform you could imagine, whoch means that anyone can chat from anywhere.. without a browser capable to run a special bloated chat system. Networks such as FreeNode do offer free, acccount based moderation/admin tools for large channels.
These free X-Chat for Windos builds are nice, http://www.silverex.org/download/ (*nix versions available in your distribution repository or http://www.xchat.org); and so is the Chatzilla extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/16/ . Lunix geeks often prefer (almost) perpetually running instances of Irssi in combination with GNU Screen. http://www.irssi.org/
/May the sauce be with you