Re: [OpenVerse] [Fwd: Fwd: Communities.com Announcement]

[Andy Goth <unununium@openverse.org>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:33:10AM -0400, Sketch wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Andy Goth wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 06:02:06PM -0700, Steve Baker wrote:
> > > 
> > > Secure Identities – Rest assured the person you’re talking to is who you
> > > think it is!
> > 
> > Like anyone would want to pose as one of us losers...
> > This is only good for chess. :^)
> 
> I can see it having potential uses.  I think it would be a good _optional_
> feature for OV servers.

Alright, then.  I know I'll be making a login system for chess.  I'll
try to separate it out from the rest of the code so that other servers
can pinch it.

> > I've had an idea for this, but it would only work as a server plugin,
> > and those won't exist until I get my life back together long enough to
> > finish my server modifications.  Sketch??  Did you play with what I
> > sent you?  What do you think?
> 
> I looked at the code.  Did you mean I was actually supposed to run it?  ;) 

No, I can run it right here.  Tell me, was there anything that needed
fixing?  Explaining?  Removing?  Embellishing?

> > > Instant Messaging – Send messages to your friends across worlds!
> > 
> > This goes along with the "Buddy List" idea I had, like, a century ago.
> 
> We've talked about this in the past.  OV is designed so that if you want
> to "hide", you can.  If someone wanted to write some sort of plugin that
> gave you buddy-list type features, they could.  It might be better to base
> it off of an existing IM standard, like OpenICU or whatever that new IM
> standard is called... either way, it should be entirely client-based.
> Putting it into an OV server doesn't make much sense, or you wouldn't be
> able to find people across servers.  The client plugin can just tell a
> central IM server of some sort what OV server it is located at.

No, it can be done without client plugins (for the guys on the list)
or server plugins (for the rooms they frequent).  One guy can use a
client plugin that sends out a search spider through all rooms.  If
the dude he's looking for is in the same interconnected network of
rooms as the searcher, he'll be found (assuming he's using the expected
nickname).

It would be much faster for a server plugin to maintain a list of where
people are on some central database, but this would be require all
servers to be upgraded.

Then, it would be best overall for users to register their whereabouts
in a central location.  That way they can hide if they want.  Also if
they change nicks they won't "disappear" even if they want to be found.
Or they can lie.  Hehehe.

I say that someday we write a client plugin that registers the user's
location with a central come-find-me! server.  It could act as an OV
room so that people can come to it and request to find people.  Or they
could use client plugins to query the database to locate folks.

> > > Discussion Boards – Easy to use, integrated discussion boards with
> > > secure identities!
> > 
> > Mmm... I'll think about it.
> 
> They have discussion boards, we have mailing lists.  :)

Oh, heh.

> If someone was ambitious they could write a discussion board server
> object.  With the user notes feature, the client probably already has
> everything necessary to support something like that.

Yeah, and with some client plugins and a special server, it can be made
global.

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