forced_anon chat

Imagine this: you load up a 4chan chat page, and you're connected to another user to chat one on one. Completely at random, with no traces of identity whatsoever. That's it. There could be a button to get a new person if you really don't like who you're talking to or you've seen them before, or you could just hit F5. In the true spirit of Anonymous, you could talk about anything in complete freedom.

I think that could be pretty awesome (and also pretty fail, but such is the way of all things chan), and it's an idea that I've had in the back of my mind for a while. I don't have the wherewithal to make it happen, however, so by /img/'s recommendation I'm here pitching it to /prog/ in the hope that someone will get inspired and make this happen. I'd really like to see it made real. I have to imagine that it would be very simple to make, although finding a good host and getting people to use it is another matter.

Anyone's interest piqued?

>>80
i saw that movie

>>80
This isn't speed dating. I'd want to be able to have a long, involved conversation if I so desired.

>>81
me too, it sucked

Also, the server should scan the chat for keywords and then forward the log along with the IP addresses to the FBI or Encyclopedia Dramatica.

>>76
Wrong, see the Linksys / Chacha threads on /b/

>>85
Hah. Yeah, but that's for the explicit purpose of trolling. You already know you're not going to have any other kind of conversation with a Linksys tech support rep or a Chacha search volunteer. That option just isn't there. I'm not saying people wouldn't troll on this either, probably even get some good Bel-Airs, but I don't think it would happen as much when it's "our own" and there's actually something else interesting to do.

I think humor would be less on an environment like this. Humor and creativity blossom in an forum where there is potential for many people to be influenced by this. In an anonymous tete-a-tete, people will be unwilling to really put to much effort into being funny or original

>>87
I wasn't shooting for funny or original so much as just plain honest. I think that's ultimately the goal of an anonymous community, but I don't see it happening on /b/.

If somebody would host the server, I could write an ENTERPRISE GRADE solution for this in Java after next week.

e-mail address in the e-mail field.

>>89
Yeah, about that... hmm... I was hopping to hitch it onto 4chan, maybe get a dev's interest or something, cause I have no idea what to do about hosting.

>>89
If it's just a simple text-based chat, you should be able to easily host it from your home machine. If it ends up being successful and gets too big, then (and only then) should you bother looking for bigger pipes.

Product first, infrastructure later (unless you have the capital to blow on infrastructure, which we don't).

>>91
Speak for yourself. I have a 6 figure salary, and living frugally means I have money to burn.

Just go find some free hosting. Many of them support PHP and/or Perl, and of course it won't take much bandwidth -- it's text only anyway.

>>92
Cents don't count in N figure salaries.

>>93
Free web hosting doesn't let you run a persistent process, which is what you're going to need to run an effective chat server. While you could write some nasty ass shit that uses PHP/Perl/Python as a backend, it's going to be some nasty ass shit.

Nothing wrong with hosting it on your own connection. That's why the Sussman invented dynamic DNS.

>>91
>>95
I actually have a pretty decent ADSL connection, with around 60 kB/s upload, but I could see that getting eaten up quickly-- at least enough to cut into gaming and other things going on. I also don't have a dedicated box, such that even if I left my computer on 24/7, any time I needed to restart I'd be killing the thing for a minute or two.

>>96
Well, I've got a similar pipe, but loads of spare machines sitting around. If you're concerned about availability, I don't have a problem dedicating one of my machines to run a /prog/ chat application. I'd be running it on FreeBSD 6.2 in a jail on a system that's been on for 28 days (some idiot did something stupid last month during a party, I don't want to talk about it).

HAY GUYS IVE GOT A LINUX SHELL HOSTING ACCOUNT WITH WEBSPACE. If this is implemented in php or cgi or java or something then I may be willing to host something. But I imagine it needs to have something running as a back ground process daemon kinda thing to manage it all??  Then I think I'll need to get permission from them first, but might be doable.

>>98
I'd like to murder you whilst may still throbbing erection continues to pump semen into your ragged red anus.

>>99
There, that's the spirit

HURRY UP AND MAKE THIS IT SOUNDS LIKE FUN.

>>99
This is why I love /prog/. Technical discussion interspersed with random psychotic ramblings of aggression. You don't get that on comp.*

>>97
meet
>>89

>>102

_{* Disclaimer: I suck cocks.}

>>104
That's it, thread over. Let's all go home.

I am home

I am home too.

I am home, /prog/ is banned in my school.

>>108
Complain to the school and say they are hindering your progress on the path to becoming an EXPERT PROGRAMMER

>>109
Been there, did that, got punched in the face by the headmaster for my ridikulus ideas. Guess he didn't read SICP.

>>108
You're fuq'd.

p=q

>>112
P≡NP

>>113
Proof or GTFO

>>114
Forget it, it's NP-complete.

>>112
How did you get that backwards p??

>>116
Forget it, it's NP-complete.

>>101
Here you go fuckers, I wrote you a real shitty ass chat server in Erlang. Whatever you do, don't fucking press the backspace key.

telnet://rawwr.kicks-ass.net:7000

If someone else writes a better one, I have no problem hosting it on my home machine, the only constraint is that it has to run on FreeBSD. Because BSD is love.

>>118
/prog/'d.

>>118
I think it died :(