the traffic doesn't unnecessarily have to be offloaded onto wikizine, it can be any server but i can see your point. however i also cannot see the foundation allowing you to host an IRC server on any of their servers, so why not just donate to wikizine or IRC@work or somebody??
as for the useability, yes i agree that CGI:IRC isnt exactly the best but im hoping to (try at least) to get the same kinda stuff set up to use the java client here -> http://java.freenode.net
thanks
mark
On Dec 9, 2007 11:07 PM, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
one of the things you say you want it an IRC function. you may like to
know
that we have a page on wikinews which allows users to easily access
CGI:IRC
from the wiki page.
But this method still requires using the IRC function on wikizine.org. I wouldn't be interested in off-loading our IRC traffic (small as it may be) onto another website without contributing in some way to it's operation. This does, however, solve the problem of creating an IRC client that is more accessible.
--Andrew Whitworth
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