I would love to see more live streams. I have only ever participated in one, but it was great. The changes to archiving are a bit annoying though…
There is something about communicating with devs directly and informally in twitch or some other venue which is very appealing to me. It was very common for back when I was in the Hawken Alpha and Beta that players and devs would gather on IRC… they would just idle during work hours and pop on every now and then to say hi and talk about what they were working on. Also over at Grim Dawn we interact with the devs this way, although it is much more infrequent. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to include an official irc channel to Stonehearth.
@moe_noobinus I think google hangouts would probably be the opposite of cool however I do think the alternatives are probably equally uncool but facebook (sigh) may be the best rout and most accessible. I do still feel the old fashioned way is best
Facebook could work, for some. I have heard bad stuff about the Facebook chat client, and some of us here don’t have a Facebook account, like me.
I like Google Hangouts, but it would be awesome if one of us could set up a Chatroom on an Trillian client for all of us. It would be simple, very accessible, and effective.
I believe we’re talking less instant messaging and more chatroom orientation. There are a lot of IRC addons for browsers like xchat. Personally I am old school and use mIRC. The big question is what server to use… Quakenet and GameSurge seem to be the big two…
Yeah xchat and I think icechat browser addons are probably the more current renditions of mIRC but the beauty of servers is you can use multiple addons, clients, or pages like mibbit all to connect to the same location. With mibbit you can actually set it up so it is on the main stonehearth website and we can all connect from there.
I’m thinking a chat integrated directly into the main website may be the most accessible. I know there are a number of these sites but I am not particularly sure which one is the best and most secure. We would want something that would be Mac available as well.
You know, we don’t really need an off-site, third party server to host our proposed chat, someone on the discourse like a Mod, Local-Admin, or trusted member could host the server on their computer.
Well, I think that an open-source and web-integrated chat-client like AJAX Chat would fit our needs best. It’s not the worst option, you see. It’s actually pretty good.
Still in favor of the chat here. I know I’d pretty much be chatty or idle most of the time I’m not at work or actually playing games. I am a product of a chatty era!