Chat

Well sure, if your going to hold every chat server to the same light as MSN, none of them compare to what MSN did. Why do that? Some of these servers were around before MSN decided to close, and were working long and hard before they made the decision to close. Chat isn't a place for you to constantly sit and idle to keep your room active. It's a place for you to come whenever you want and talk to whoevers there, and meet new people. MSN chat just reached people .... EVERYWHERE, so, they always looked busy because if it was night time in America, it was daytime in Australia. I wouldn't say chat is dead. Is it dying? Sure. It's not dead yet, and some people don't/can't constantly sit in a room to have a room number.

lol was gonna type that myself

Great minds think alike

was you gonna say flowering bleep bleep flowering to? Lol

lol

biased maybe?

biased...

Biased about what?

Well thats part of the thing with pyrc, it is not MSN or based on what MSN did with "webchat." We're going back beyond webchat to the old irc.msn.com days. Pyrc is closer to a hybrid server with features common to both unreal ircd and msn exchange, and many of the features of the anope services built in. I could probably write many paragraphs explaining how grand our hopes are for pyrc 3.0, but the new version is so early in development theres no telling if the updates will even be an improvement over the current 2.5 version. As long as you're looking for msn though, you wont find it.

As for a link, I can provide you with the address of our irc server running on pyrcx 2.5, but thats about all. We have a very small userbase at the moment(some kiddies would love for us to fail) but theres plenty there who can provide anyone interested with a copy of the 2.5 source to scan & study. As far as 3.0, I am keeping that to myself until I have made some significant progress to alleviate the current problems with the services datamanagement and linking.

I just didnt want to spam my server if it is unwanted, I wasnt exactly the most loved user on MSN, nor am I now.

You can post your link if you'd like. Thanks.

what python version are you basing your code off? 2.3.x? 2.4.x? 2.5.x?

I'm not too sure if you need any additional help with coding stuff, or even if you wanna run the paces through me on some old stuff just to see if i would be of any help, but aye, i would love to give assistance on pyRCx to expand my python knowledge, and to give a few ideas of what i have as well.

/server -m irc.electrickz.com -j #somewhere

were pretty small at the moment primarily due to constant ddos attacks but we avg around 20-25 regs currently.

all the code is based on python 2.51 and will not run on python 3.0, I am continuing develpment on python 2.51 for pyrc 3.0 as well. I have no intent on relearning what little I currently know for python 3.0.

Some of the big features are being python its completely portable, weve run this specific server on fbsd, win2k3 and are about to move to CentOS. Pyrc has its own internal nickserv so services will never go down, it features &access tying identified nicknames into channel access so you can safely access a nickname w/out security risk, and were currently adapting mode # +X to represent ircd style rooms w/in the ircx enviroment.

In the future I am adding some extra depth to the nickserv in the way of a personalized profile and stat tracking, and adopting SQL to manage the data, which also makes it easier to integrate with the web AND the Chatcore web applet. Also building a custom Chanserv function to adapt /access to a more familiar command structure for ircd users. And it will feature built in irc games such as mode # +T for trivia, mode # +W for irc wars, and mode # +I for idle games.

So as you can see, we have come a great way since the start, but also have a long long way to go, which is why i added my 2 cents, its much too far away to get really excited about, or to even consider using outside of the current development enviroment.

All I can say is good luck, and don't let the DDOS stuff get you down. Who/whatever is doing it will eventually get bored.

he hasnt after 16 months of it lol, anyway i keep the server up because i believe in the server a lot, we can build a really nice community with the tools it has to offer present and future, and for a change, actually make chat FUN again. Even when msn died, it wasnt fun anymore.

Just to let anyone whos going to post replies know, if this turns into a MSN OCX thread, it WILL be closed, or your posts will be deleted. There are different alternatives then using the MSN OCX.

 

IRCd

OfficeIRC

Of course there is. Rent a coder and creat your own OCX. its not hard if you have money.