Comments on: Rethinking the IRC Experience /2011/11/rethinking-the-irc-experience/ The Adventures of Dan Schultz Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Flam /2011/11/rethinking-the-irc-experience/#comment-173 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:09:00 +0000 /?p=668#comment-173 I lol’d at the heavy breathing part.  Well said man, you pretty much got IRC described perfectly.  I didn’t know those things about Linkinus, but I guess I’ll take my friend’s advice who has been trying to get me to buy it for months now.
Your description of the two “issues” are dead on also.  I quote issues because sometimes, at least personally, you can enjoy the quiet or the chaotic flow of conversations.  For my channels I solve the quiet problem by having a bot post relevant news articles from feeds online at most once an hour just to spark up some discussions.

The noise problem is much more complicated.  All I can think of from the top of my head is to disable join/part/quit notifications for that channel, highlight different users in different colors, or tell them to get a room 🙂

Perhaps you can do some clustering by figuring out who is talking to whom and color all their chat a certain color, rather than each person.  Or go a step further and color based on current discussed subject.

I’d be interested to hear what you had in mind or if you’ve gotten any thing developed.

Cool blog btw, bookmarked.

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