[zeromq-dev] An interesting use-case for EdgeNet : Asynchronous IRC?

[Lindley French]

On Android at least, if you have any trouble with UDP broadcast or
multicast, you should trying using the IPv6 all-hosts address. Android's
built-in filtering doesn't seem to affect IPv6 the same way as IPv4.


On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Sean Robertson <sprobertson at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have something like this in the works, in the form of an iOS application
> that I hope to soon port to Android. It doesn't properly use Zyre but
> rather my own haphazard  reimplementation, due to some silliness with
> Apple's UDP broadcast (https://github.com/zeromq/czmq/issues/297). The UI
> works decently though. I'll send the code to this list later this week.
> On Dec 31, 2013 6:38 PM, "Lindley French" <lindleyf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Asych twitter is a good idea and will work well. I've seen it done.
>> Another fun application is async push to talk.
>>
>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 9:32 PM, crocket <crockabiscuit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> May asynchronous twitter be more appropriate for my idea?
>> Asynchronous twitter, asynchronous IRC, whatever.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:19 AM, crocket <crockabiscuit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> With asynchronous IRC software, you can choose your nickname and a topic.
>>> You send messages that belong to a topic.
>>> People who subscribed to that topic receive your message.
>>> Or they might choose to receive messages from every topic.
>>>
>>> This becomes very interesting when population density goes up very high
>>> in a small area.
>>> Imagine that you went to comiket. Wikipedia says "Comiket (コミケット
>>> Komiketto?), otherwise known as the Comic Market (コミックマーケット Komikku
>>> Māketto?), is the world's largest dōjinshi fair, held twice a year in
>>> Tokyo, Japan."
>>>
>>> ~590,000 people attended comiket last summer. It basically looks like
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comiket77.jpg
>>>
>>> With hundreds of thousands of people in a small area, asynchronous IRC
>>> becomes fun.
>>> Not as fun as the near-synchronous one we have now, but still.
>>>
>>> I think asynchronous IRC may entice people to adopt EdgeNet starting
>>> from big meetups.
>>>
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