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JayC previously said:
Yea and I have been a huge fan of integrating IRC portals with forums but recently, I've had a change of heart. Mainly because the IRC java based portals suck and there are too many people who dont know what IRC is and how it works, let alone how to set up a client. Then you get into problems with people's firewalls blocking port 113 and it just goes on and on.
Not to mention network issues with splits, etc.. EFnet or any of the larger networks are suicide for a channel like this with all the splits, desyncs, etc and the smaller networks generally have their good and bad days as well.
The flash based chat has been well received on some other forums so I thought I might try it out here instead of a true IRC portal.
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I've used Dalnet for years (and efnet). You are very correct in that IRC can be problematic with the ident issues you raised earlier as well as the k-lines for certain (sometimes major) domains. The splits were a problem a while back, but I haven't seen them so much recently.
I do think mIrc as a client on PC's is pretty simple. But it sounds like the flash based might be the best way to go.
