MsLedd on 7/3/2015 at 22:18

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Hi all,

It's been forever since I posted here, but I've recently been contacted by several FM authors who asked me to do voice recording and since I was here I thought I just thought I'd drop in and say "hi" and "how the hell is everybody?".

I'm still alive and stirring up shit (as always). When I do turn on my PC (which isn't nearly as often as I used to, since I now work sitting at a computer all day... for some reason I'm not as inclined to log in when I get home - surprise!) I usually post whatever deranged, sarcastic or profane thing that pops int my head on (https://www.facebook.com/msledd) facebook.

For those of you who don't know, we've even got a (https://www.facebook.com/groups/nuthaus/) TTLG Nuthaus alumni group there. If you're on facebook, come and join us!

Toodles!
~M

MsLedd on 8/3/2015 at 00:50

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Check out the (https://www.facebook.com/notes/ttlg-nuthaus/members-list/431176810226950) Members List, though the group page gets varying levels of activity, the individual members are VERY active. :)

demagogue on 8/3/2015 at 05:09

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Is there a go-to place for TTLG live chat these days? Not that I have time for it, but curious. Does IRC even exist anymore?

I think we could do with a shoutout box on our page or somewhere for throw away live chats, unless people with more experience know why that's a bad idea. Be good to have a place I go to that's accessible but not in-your-face. (E.g., I couldn't deal with the FB chat alerts. It was better when I just had the msg window open. But FB PM system isn't very accessible sans the alerts either.)

Kolya on 9/3/2015 at 21:45

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If only we had a place that we could control ourselves, that didn't sell our private interactions to the highest bidder! How cool would that be?
(http://www.kenrockwell.com/katie/images/2012/2012-10/600_2388-ooooh.jpg)

@dema: Building a chat on a webpage used to be a very bad idea™ until recently nodejs came along and (http://socket.io/get-started/chat/) allowed for permanent client connections through websockets, instead of constantly polling the server, which would bring any server down.

Daxim on 11/3/2015 at 12:52

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I take exception to that. Around a decade ago I have implemented Web applications whose use model is equivalent to chats with mixed-replace and a variant of delayed responses on persistent connections that was standardised as BOSH, no constant polling. It's astonishing how well the Node propaganda works.