[sldev] Question: Replacing current group chat with XMPP?

[Ambrosia]

I don't see an issue there. There are zero problems with being logged
into 25 IRC channels at one time. Even moreso, IRC channels have
successfully held thousands of users at once without delay in comms,
just as they have held 5 users.

IRC servers are easily clustered into IRCnets, the technology is
proven, stable, and with modern IRC servers and good settings, safe as
well. I'm personally all in favor of trying the IRC protocol and
server technology for SL group chats and conference IMs.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:15, Celierra Darling <Celierra at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, David M Chess <chess at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> If I'm understanding what Zero said correctly, the problem with IRC scaling
>> to SL levels wasn't the number of people concurrently logged into a group so
>> much as it was the number of groups that each person was concurrently logged
>> into.  And I think that's a rather fundamental difference between the
>> use-cases: I believe the average IRC user is only in a few channels at a
>> time (heavy IRC users are invited to comment on that!), whereas in the SL
>> model one is currently in like 25 at a time, and even when we fix things so
>> that groups that don't need chat channels don't have them, we'll also be
>> raising the 25-group limit, so I expect that 25-at-once will continue to be
>> pretty typical.