Re: decentralized chat

2012-12-02 Thread Thanos Vassilakis
I've used couchdb for a private but audited chat system for traders. It's worked very well. Thanos On Dec 2, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > If it looks like Couch has 80% of what you need, perhaps you would be > interested in contributing the remaining 20%? That would be a win for > e

Re: decentralized chat

2012-12-02 Thread Noah Slater
If it looks like Couch has 80% of what you need, perhaps you would be interested in contributing the remaining 20%? That would be a win for everone! Some of the stuff you mention sounds quite exiting... On 24 November 2012 03:14, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote: > Hi. I'm new to CouchDB, but I was

Re: decentralized chat

2012-11-25 Thread svilen
g'day i am working on something like this for 2+months already, and the chat is just the message carrier, with semantical-interpretation on top for various application fields - people talk for different reasons, and putting some structure into messages allows the apps to do "themed" specialized r

Re: decentralized chat

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Black
On 11/24/2012 11:52 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Kragen Javier Sitaker > wrote: > > > * How about if I want to have a single Comet connection from my browser > to all of them at once? (Browsers won't let you have 30 Comet > connections to localhost.) > > That isn’t goin

Re: decentralized chat

2012-11-24 Thread Jens Alfke
On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote: > Hi. I'm new to CouchDB, but I was just chatting with Noah on IRC about > how IRC sucks and we need to replace it and whether we could do that > using CouchDB. This is a topic near & dear to my heart, and in fact this sort of thinking

Re: decentralized chat

2012-11-23 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Nov 24, 2012 4:14 AM, "Kragen Javier Sitaker" wrote: > > Hi. I'm new to CouchDB, but I was just chatting with Noah on IRC about > how IRC sucks and we need to replace it and whether we could do that > using CouchDB. He mentioned this thing Chris did four years ago called > Toast: > > < http:/

Re: decentralized chat

2012-11-23 Thread Keith Gable
NB: I was an IRC server/client developer in a past life. I don't think you're going to be able to reliably solve the dual NAT issue for everyone. A mesh-type database like CouchDB would work well for decentralized chat, but one thing I would do would be to digitally sign every message.

decentralized chat

2012-11-23 Thread Kragen Javier Sitaker
Hi. I'm new to CouchDB, but I was just chatting with Noah on IRC about how IRC sucks and we need to replace it and whether we could do that using CouchDB. He mentioned this thing Chris did four years ago called Toast: