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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 12 2014, @02:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 12 2014, @02:29AM (#14992)

    Are there any costs to run this? I mean resources people etc.? If it's just up front and we've already done that cool but it takes someone's time for not much benefit then maybe we should drop it. Personally i love the logs etc but i could see how it would be an unnecessary burden although it is great for admins.

  • (Score: 2) by xlefay on Wednesday March 12 2014, @02:45AM

    by xlefay (65) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @02:45AM (#14996) Journal

    As a member of the IRC staff, yeah there are resources and costs (I know, because currently I'm running both servers - which will be moved to SN _IF_ the vote goes through) but it's not that much really.

    There's quite a bit of work to be done but that's not an issue at all. We're volunteers, we do what we like. ;)

    • (Score: 2) by weeds on Wednesday March 12 2014, @12:55PM

      by weeds (611) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @12:55PM (#15226) Journal

      "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity"

      Ockam (attributed to him, but maybe he never said that version)

      We already use phpbb for our forum. There is a mod for that forum that is an excellent chat/shoutbox. mchat could easily be added to the forum and now you have an equivalent of IRC with very little extra effort.

      • (Score: 2) by xlefay on Wednesday March 12 2014, @06:05PM

        by xlefay (65) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @06:05PM (#15420) Journal

        I'm actually fairly certain the forums are being discontinued... maybe we should have a community vote about this as well ;)