The great Assembler chatting petition!

Have you Ever wanted to chat in real time with fellow geeks, sellers, collectors or general gaming nerds on an Irc chatroom? Ofcourse! All we need to do Is post here and vouch for your support for an assembler game chat room!
All we need to do to achieve this are a few supportive words and posts from the community!
So lets hear it! We need our own IRC / Chat service!

 

I believe this was already suggested in a thread ASSEMbler started on what changes we want to see to the site.

I vote HELL YEAH!

 

I'm all for it, though essentially the chatbox on the front kind of takes care of this already, so if it doesn't happen(and I don't think kevin cares for it to), no big deal.

 

What's the point, when we already have a chatbox built into the forum?

 

Well, IRC is way cooler for once.

 

I'd have thought this to already exist?
It's only useful if something's gone seriously wrong with the forum though...(as a means to be kept up to date.)

 

Personally I'd be all for this, BUT I think we need to talk to Assembler and either get his blessing, set down rules in stone, or make it an UNOFFICIAL channel to prevent even more legal hassles resulting from activities such a proposed channel could present if not moderated un extremely strict guidelines in accordance with the forums.

As it is, the forums are heavily moderated, and all access is logged.
An official channel would most likely need to be run on a private server where logs of chat and connection could be made available if requested in a legal case (as has I believe happened in the past due to members on the forums NOT following rules, and bringing the wrath of some of the larger gaming companies on this site).
An unofficial channel would not, but would not enjoy any direct benefits of association to the server, but in general, a strict set of rules still should be drafted to prevent devolution into a poorly managed piracy channel.

I'd use it either way as I idle on ~6 networks all day for work (and some hobby), but if the desire is to create an unofficial hangout space, what is the best way to work with Assembler to get the word out?

Just my thoughts, and by no means any final word.
Perhaps a mod can chime in here.

 

Unofficial ones have been started several times - no one bothers joining, except maybe 3-5 people.

 

We had an official one... even back then, there were only about 10 people in it. And then nobody bothered to use it.

Really... who uses IRC nowadays? Why would I want to pay for mIRC, when there's a chat box built into the forum? Or, of course, if I have something worthy of discussion past idle banter, I'd create a topic. As for those built-in website IRC things, they really suck!

Kev doesn't want an IRC room because of the security hassle. Understandable, although using a network with services it shouldn't be an issue. I don't see it happening, to be honest.

 

^ This. Hardly anyone will use the damn thing.

Time to set one up, monitor it etc just. not. worth. it. The chat box at the top of the forum is good enough for me, and just take a look at how many users are on this forum. Not all of them even use the chat box.

 

No need for it. It segments the audience. Stuff gets lost in the Chat Box now, but luckily that is saved pretty easily. The current setup is fine, there really isn't anything that IRC adds to the discussion.

 

I said yeah, why not? Would be cool to talk with you guys

 

I'm on efnet all the time, I use to talk to people from assemblergames on there but have lost touch. I don't think there has to be any "official" channel. I'd join one and idle, chat when I feel like it. There's someone named "mas" in #assemblergames on efnet, not sure if it's a bot or human.

 

It would be handy to have an irc channel available, however the chat box serves this purpose does it not? I have to agree with others on this one that it would be setup then 5 - 10 people would use it for a short period and it would probably get neglected and die a death as have similar assembler channels in the past.

Just my two pennies worth.

My Ubuntu box is pretty much permanently in some sort of irc channel, so I would definitely log in myself.

 

I've put my vote in as I see that assembler mentioned making a poll was the way to go.

 

It's obvious, that there's not much demand for an assemblergames irc channel.
Installing an irc client just for the assemblergames chat, which hardly anyone uses,... pretty useless.

I would have expected, that a lot of members are already on irc. Well, it seems, that's not the case.

But I hope, everyone agrees, that you can't compare this lousy chatbox with a fully featured, customizable, convenient irc client and the advantages of irc itself (eggdrop, bnc, services, etc.).

 

we tried this dude.

10 people idle'd in the irc for about a week straight waiting for somebody to call them. Eventually activity dropped off and I think the channel is still on efnet somwhere

 

Haha, just logged into irc.efnet.org #assembler - there's 3 people idling in there, not sure it's assembler games left over irc though...

There is also #assemblergames - and I can see Kl0wn on there.

 

Oh we have one now? good news! We just need a handy Irc link that will help us login, like some forums have them in the top link, that would be kickass!
And it may even make people less shy about it.!