On Oct 25, 2006, at 03:09, Magnus Henoch wrote:
Sometimes the idea to move a discussion channel from IRC to XMPP MUC
is brought up, but fails for social and technical reasons: there are
more people who know how to use an IRC client than an XMPP client, and
IRC clients (and servers) are (allegedly) much better at handling
heavy use of such channels. The Jabberites thus start using an IRC
transport, and everything is calm again.
Hi,
This is something I've always thought about. Using an IRC gateway for
interconnecting between IRC and XMPP (which is the common way to do
it right now) is pretty lame, since you need one connection per user
on the XMPP side, which doesn't scale at all.
IRC supports server clusters, for example, freenode consists of 18
servers (plus/minus a few), which are all interconnected, and you
don't notice what server you're using (unless it crashes of course).
What if you would just write an IRC server that connects to this
cluster, and instead of offering IRC to the user, offers an MUC
service? You would only need a single connection to the IRC servers,
and the XMPP protocol users wouldn't be second class.
Your server is the first step into this direction, which is great!
andy
