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IRC Revival of #macrumors

Do you think a MacRumors IRC "help desk" & "Social" channel would be success

  • Yes to both

    Votes: 90 62.1%

  • Yes to "help desk" (no to "social")

    Votes: 11 7.6%

  • Yes to "social" (no to "help desk")

    Votes: 17 11.7%

  • No to both

    Votes: 27 18.6%
  • Total voters
    145
DoFoT9 said:
well, a whoping 80% of users would like some sort of IRC revival so far - i think thats a pretty positive result for the channel!
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Remember, that's 80% (now 64%) of the votes, not 80% of the users (only 28 votes out of so many thousand users). 😉
 
belvdr said:
Remember, that's 80% (now 64%) of the votes, not 80% of the users (only 28 votes out of so many thousand users). 😉
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I was going to mention the same thing. That "80%" is more like 0.00605% Now we know how politicians use statistics! 😀
 
RedTomato said:
Sarcasm aside, that's looking good. I might drop in myself tonight.
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please do 🙂 im always asleep for the 5 or so hrs prior to this comment, but i try to come on when i can. might see you there 🙂

belvdr said:
Remember, that's 80% (now 64%) of the votes, not 80% of the users (only 28 votes out of so many thousand users). 😉
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lol you think im that stupid? my writing might imitate that i guess.. haha

GGJstudios said:
I was going to mention the same thing. That "80%" is more like 0.00605% Now we know how politicians use statistics! 😀
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its 80% of all current voting users that want some form of IRC. i added them up using spotlight haha.
 
MacNut said:
I popped in about 15 min ago. Only 1 person in there.
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only one person replying you mean. im currently at work so my replies are a little delayed. dont judge so hardly - you dont like this idea do you?
 
DoFoT9 said:
only one person replying you mean. im currently at work so my replies are a little delayed. dont judge so hardly - you dont like this idea do you?
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Unless I am in the wrong room there was only 1 person in there. I went back in a few minutes ago.

I love IRC I always hang out in the twit irc all the time.
 
MacNut said:
Unless I am in the wrong room there was only 1 person in there. I went back in a few minutes ago.

I love IRC I always hang out in the twit irc all the time.
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#macrumors??

there are now myself (dofot9), knox, yoyo, webers and ben in there. we are all active.

niuniu said:
Maybe wrong room - there's always at least 5 or 6 people in.. I'm always in but have a lot on atm so not being very vocal past couple days.
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baha get in more! 😛
 
just another update for this thread - we have an ever increasing user base, it used to be just around night time in the US when people were on - but now its sort of whenever!

if you have any questions or just want a chat, feel free to come on and ask!
 
wow cant believe its been a month already. im still there and so are a bunch of other users.

if you need any live mac help - give us a look! 😀
 
You should set up a web page that connects to the chat. IRC is too complicated for most normal people to get their head around.
 
aurichie said:
You should set up a web page that connects to the chat. IRC is too complicated for most normal people to get their head around.
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macrumors currently already has one located at macrumors.com/irc - unfortunately it is no longer registered and leaves annoying messages each time you type. i am in the process of getting an online (and easy) to use website hosted from elsewhere.

in the mean time, you can use Adium to join, or the macrumors.com/irc implementation. there is also the original app which is preconfigured (in first post).
 
What would be nice is a little bit of php at the top of the forums listing the server name, chatroom name and number of current users - I am sure there is a php geek to do this on here (maybe an admin can chirp in with the possibility of allowing/.adding this site feature) - ?
 
costabunny said:
blast from the past - I forgot how I used to enjoy rambling on in irc channels 🙂
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haha its like that isnt it! helps with my exam study. (not)

costabunny said:
What would be nice is a little bit of php at the top of the forums listing the server name, chatroom name and number of current users - I am sure there is a php geek to do this on here (maybe an admin can chirp in with the possibility of allowing/.adding this site feature) - ?
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now that would be cool. and im sure its possible! i have no clue how it would be done though. i wonder if this would be helpful? it can make statistics to php/html based on a Java Bot. im not sure what the MR Bot is (its on the channel there).
 
I don't think there should be IRc for anything remotely useful. It's better to have that stuff in a forum, for later searching and reference.

I wouldn't mind an IRC channel devoted to bitching and whining, 'I'm tracking my iPhone online' and other random fanboi trollism.
 
firestarter said:
I don't think there should be IRc for anything remotely useful. It's better to have that stuff in a forum, for later searching and reference.

I wouldn't mind an IRC channel devoted to bitching and whining, 'I'm tracking my iPhone online' and other random fanboi trollism.
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maybe move all the iPhone forums and dump them in IRC 😉

but seriously though - the amount of detail that can be exchanged over IRC compared to the forums is probably about 10x more "in depth". you see conversations where a bunch of people help a user that you just would not see on the forums. its also done in a matter of minutes instead of a matter of hours. when somebody has lost their data, or needs help installing something - that really makes a difference to their experience and improves their view on both IRC and MacRumors.
 
DoFoT9 said:
maybe move all the iPhone forums and dump them in IRC 😉

but seriously though - the amount of detail that can be exchanged over IRC compared to the forums is probably about 10x more "in depth". you see conversations where a bunch of people help a user that you just would not see on the forums. its also done in a matter of minutes instead of a matter of hours. when somebody has lost their data, or needs help installing something - that really makes a difference to their experience and improves their view on both IRC and MacRumors.
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Not to mention a bot can be setup to capture those transcripts and upload it to MR site, something like bash.org.
 
MikhailT said:
Not to mention a bot can be setup to capture those transcripts and upload it to MR site, something like bash.org.
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there already is a bot that probably already captures everything - but transcripting the conversations that go on would be a ridiculous idea IMO. as most things would be OT. it would mean somebody would have to trawl through it and find the useful stuff to post or whatever.
 
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