| Author | Comment |
Jayhawk
Dragoon
Posted: 17 May 2004
19:35 GMT
Total Posts: 80 | I've read on other boards here that people are frustrated with the tangents the discussions get off into. My opinion on that is it isn't necessarily a terrible thing because it gives me an opportunity to get to know the people who hang around here, or at least the ones that choose to post.
As someone who's been around for quite a few years, I remember when the staff of ticalc.org and Ti-Files had a consistent presence on IRC. That's not the case anymore with any of the major sites. I see a couple of ticalc.org members on IRC from time to time, and I can't think of the last time I saw a calc.org member on IRC. The reason I'm talking about IRC is it's one of the oldest and most universal ways to chat in real time. It predates AIM, ICQ, and just about any other kind of online chat. There are programs to go on IRC from just about any operating system.
What I'm interested in knowing is if people here would have an interest in building a community on IRC for discussing calculators. There are IRC channels that already exist for such discussion, but they're viewed mostly as help channels. That defeats the idea of a channel for the community of calculator enthusiasts. The IRC channels I frequented when I first coming to IRC for calculator discussion were #ti and #ti-files on EFnet. While they offered calculator help, it was also a place for general calculator discussion, for nerds to talk about life and anything of interest, and a bit of discussion that's not exactly appropriate for these forums. :) Would you have an interest in such a place, if it existed again? The #ti and #ti-files channels on EFnet are long dead, unfortunately, and much of the calculator community on IRC died with them. |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 17 May 2004
19:52 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | I'd visit it often... |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 18 May 2004
16:29 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | I'm not sure if this would work out. Most of us here just have free bits of time here and there, so live chat wouldn't work out for the most part. Besides, AIM if far more user friendly and faster to connect to than IRC and since most people have AIM rather than IRC I'd guess it would be more favorable chat program. Either way, I wouldn't hurt if we run an IRC channel and looking at the many people who come here at least some will find use for it. Worth a try I guess...
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Jayhawk
Dragoon
Posted: 19 May 2004
12:03 GMT
Total Posts: 80 | I don't really believe there'll be sites with just their own IRC channels anymore. Back in the day, every large TI site had an IRC channel and they were all on EFnet. Ti-Files had #ti-files, Dim-TI had #dim-ti, and ticalc.org had #ti. A lot of other calculator-related IRC channels existed as well such as #tcpa, #zapo, #ccia, #z80asm, #ti-news, and many others. If the community supported no less than 10 IRC channels back then, some of which got a lot of traffic, I have no doubt the community (which is probably a lot larger now) can support two channels now. |
Ray Kremer
Ultralisk
Posted: 19 May 2004
22:32 GMT
Total Posts: 310 | Forums are so much easier to deal with. I hung around #ti for a few weeks, the only time calculators came up was once when a n00b wandered in with a calculator question. |
Jayhawk
Dragoon
Posted: 20 May 2004
14:26 GMT
Total Posts: 80 | I've got to say I disagree on some of the channels. For example, #tcpa (which I'm currently not on good terms with) frequently discusses calculators even if there's nobody there asking questions. Also, I'm not convinced that calculators need to be discussed the majority of the time for it to be a calculator channel. Remember that there's an offtopic section of this forum which gets quite a lot of posts. I suspect you remember #ti when people who asked questions about calculators were banned for their efforts and your views are a bit inaccurate. Not all the channels had the same attitude toward calculator users that #ti had. |
