Brian+Palasz

So far I haven't seen to much going on in irc, though people do seem quick to reply when someone does talk. Over the last two days I've seen two conversations, and both times the response came in under a minute which is surprising considering the lack of activity before the conversation. I assume this is either because the conversations are between people who are also communicating some other way, or people have irc on in the background and alerts set up so that as long as they are at their computer, they know instantly whenever there is activity. This does seem like a really efficient form of communication for this type of project.
 * a11y** (9/15/2010)

I'd like to say that I've been using XChat as my irc client (I use google chrome mostly, and haven't even installed firefox since my last reformat), and I'm still not comfortable with it. I haven't spent a ton of time dealing with it but from what I've done so far, the ui really doesn't feel very intuitive. I would have liked a server connect window where you gave the network, and optionally the channel, and it would connect. This is pretty much what you get with the network list in xchat, if you add a new entry and hit the edit button. Having a separate menu item or window for favorites would be nice too, but that's also embedded in the network list. I guess I just feel like most people know the network/channel before they get to the list, so I don't see a lot of people browsing through networks, but I could be wrong. Also, after reading that gigantic irc log, I'd like an option to put a gray background behind anything directed at me, and anything I say, to help keep conversations a bit easier to read. This option may be in there, and I just haven't worked hard enough to find it, but I don't think it should be that hard to find.
 * irc clients** (9/15/2010)