We have chat. Its wonderful :')

EDIT: And I'm the only one online but it doesn't matter, had chat.

Sceptic frob is sceptic :D

So many folks online - every one of them AFK

I wonder when browsers became capable enough to work with embedded chat windows in web pages...

I wonder when browsers became capable enough to work with embedded chat windows in web pages...

Since before 2006. The ChatZilla firefox plugin that let you do IRC in a window was released in March of that year.

In 2009, Firefox chose Mibbit to be their built-in chat handler, and that was first released in 2007.

I'm pretty sure it was long before that if we're including things that made use of Java applets or other common (at the time) plugins.

There has been an unofficial chat channel in IRC for over a decade. It is #gamedev on AfterNet. The site even has a little web client that connects to it at http://www.gamedev.net/page/community/chat/index.html

I guess we'll see how the new one turns out. I doubt it will replace the IRC room any time soon.

My project for the day was to lurk in that chat channel all day under various pseudonyms for evaluation purposes. The conclusion I have come to is that it is really not about game development at all.

It's about whatever the participants want it to be about. Anybody is welcome to ask game development questions at any point in time.