Re: [Staffslug] IRC channel
My point was mainly that we have an overlap of users who connect to
z.je
There is likely to be an overwhelmingly greater number of people who share
#staffslug and some other Freenode channel in common, than #staffslug and
a channel on irc.z.je which to my limited knowledge is essentially Home
Automation, A&A ISP and mzje's cooking channel.
Freenode does indeed have a London server, however the dns pool has
never (that I've noticed) connected me to it!
If you lookup irc.freenode.net you'll see one of the results is
213.232.93.3 which is the Holmes London server which I've been connected
to many times. However we can always have irc.staffslug.org.uk as a CNAME
to holmes.freenode.org which solves the issue.
I understand your point, from my experience the issue has been
latency
and refreshing with GCI:IRC, this may have changed... I couldn't
possibly say.
The latency issues can be fixed by altering refresh rates in the
configuration, however the trade off between CGI:IRC vs anything else is
bandwidth - if you use CGI:IRC then it's the web server connected to IRC
for you... not your own machine. Great when you can't use a Java or Flash
applet, and great for times you may be on an internet connection that
doesn't allow IRC.
Steven