monkdiscuss bronto <p>Hello</p> <p><i><b>Preface:</b> this post could be a repetition of old ones, I tried a search but I didn't found any. In case it is an old and already closed argument of discussion, I apologize.</i></p> <p>Days ago I read a post where they said that the heavy load on perlmonks.org is due in a somewhat large part by a lot of people reloading the page to refresh the chatterbox.</p> <p>Searching around the monastery I also read about the #perlmonks channel on irc.slashnet.org and of a couple of efforts to interface the chatterbox to an IRC server</p> <p>And I asked myself: why have a webchat that generates high load and efforts in interfacing it to IRC when we could do the opposite?</p> <p>I mean: why not having all the chat where it is supposed to be, on IRC, and having it replicated on the web but <b>without</b> the possibility of posting via web?</p> <p>Ciao!<br><tt>--bronto</tt></p> <p><small><pre> # Another Perl edition of a song: # The End, by The Beatles END { $you->take($love) eq $you->make($love) ; }</small></pre></p>