There's some serious discussion about making LiveChan into an IRC-like nodular network right now, with a central server for each network which has trusted nodes to handle users on.
Essentially this would allow people to start their own LiveChan networks, which as people have said about LiveChan "is almost exactly like IRC".
Except LiveChan supports direct http&websockets communication (no websockets->IRC proxy needed, which means actual users can be banned instead of web proxies being banned), and also allows for posting images with a chan-like interface
Eventually this could be expanded to allow people to download the LiveChan code and node.js+mongodb to connect to a network, which means people could customize the frontend/client however they wanted
This could be pretty cool guys, it'd be nice to have /prog/ help us since we heard you guys were looking into a distributed chan before too, and this could easily be used to make one.
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Anonymous2014-01-24 2:32
If anyone here wants to help join /g and click on Networking General in the convo list on the right
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Anonymous2014-01-24 2:38
Also some preliminary written-at-5AM documentation on the kind of architecture we're aiming for (example network here is NetChan.org): http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=VScG8GqL
The code we've already written for LiveChan would let us use this architecture in a matter of days (maybe even hours), it's just a matter of changing endpoints and adding synchronization/node authentication
We're looking for more input first though so we can avoid having to change things later, if you guys want to help out feel free to drop in.
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Anonymous2014-01-24 8:20
Sounds good, /g/retheren, but how about you check my dubs first?
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Anonymous2014-01-24 21:47
Cool. I've been working on the design for something kind of like this.
I think web is kind of a shitty tool for channels, ideally people will be able to use regex, hotkeys and macros, but browsers make it difficult.
>Eventually this could be expanded to allow people to download the LiveChan code and node.js+mongodb to connect to a network, which means people could customize the frontend/client however they wanted
This is essentially what we should be aiming for. Anonymous discussion boards are only going to keep getting bigger, and it's going to keep getting harder to sort out all the crap while we're stuck with web browsers and the old-style board scripts.
I love shit like this. Makes the world feel more real, like I'm actually living it, not just seeing the world through the lens of a textbook. OP confirmed for not fag.
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Anonymous2014-01-25 4:20
See [1] for anonymous chat implemented as an IRCd.