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Offline silver mchowl

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Chat? IRC?
« on: 2010, May 29, 12:58:54 pm »
Does the AK community have an irc channel on furnet or anthrochat or somewhere?
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #1 on: 2010, May 29, 05:42:29 pm »
Nope, we've never had a chat anything, Cat thinks that having people in a chatroom would cause people to post less on the forum, since discussions would be had there instead of in threads.

Plus AKC isn't actually a furry community, there's just a lot of furries in it, lol.
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #2 on: 2010, May 29, 06:18:12 pm »
meowmix,
We don't have one, for the reason Fox pointed out.

And we are a community for everyone and anyone that wants to use it. Currently we have been taken over by the Alaska furries. hehe.
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #3 on: 2010, May 30, 09:53:18 am »
You know, I think that an IRC chat/etc would actually make MORE people post on the forums, because they'd have discussions and then they would post about them on the forums for posterity. At least that's what -I- think would happen.
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« Reply #4 on: 2010, May 30, 10:30:46 am »
That's possible, but I also see the problem of there not being anyone -in- the chat very often, lol.  It's not like AKC is very active...
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #5 on: 2010, May 30, 10:34:51 am »
That's because many of us are parents.  It's difficult enough to get 2 minutes to post a forum message, trying to get two hours to babble inanely in IRC is impossible.
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« Reply #6 on: 2010, May 30, 01:00:15 pm »
Quote from: Taylor-MadeAK on 2010, May 30,  10:34:51 am
That's because many of us are parents.  It's difficult enough to get 2 minutes to post a forum message, trying to get two hours to babble inanely in IRC is impossible.

I bet Cat could do it, he spends 24 hours a day babbling inanely on his own, doing a few hours in a chatroom wouldn't be too difficult for him, lol.
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #7 on: 2010, May 30, 04:08:34 pm »
Yes, but that's because his son isn't there every day.  That's not true for most of the rest of us.
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #8 on: 2010, May 30, 04:30:14 pm »
If only my live was so non busy.
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #9 on: 2011, March 20, 05:13:31 pm »
I want to revive this old topic to say my little bit.

I think that having an IRC channel of sorts would not actually be a bad idea.

Would people post on here less? I think so, but what is one thing this forum lacks that would be solved with a chat room?

Social Interaction in the form of conversations. Starting a thread then having 8 people comment over the week is nice, but it is not the same thing. I have to disagree with Oni's statement and I say that having an IRC channel of sorts would actually help increase user interaction of those using the forum.
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #10 on: 2011, March 23, 09:50:28 pm »
So, I started playing around with hosting my own IRC server tonight. Alpha tests have yielded promising results.

P.S. Linux is the sh**.
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #11 on: 2011, March 26, 06:14:01 am »
I just wanted to share how promising my alpha tests were.



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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #12 on: 2011, March 26, 05:02:43 pm »
Ekim. Would you like to stark the AKCommunity IRC?
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #13 on: 2011, March 27, 12:55:45 pm »
Would I like to start it? The idea is stark mad, but it would not be to hard (knock on ... wood) to do it. Perhaps I should give you a jingle.
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Re: Chat? IRC?
« Reply #14 on: 2011, March 30, 05:03:43 pm »
Can you build a beta release?
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