World: r3wp

Looks like Altme is not usable today ...

Do you think it would make sense to implement few AltME enhancements, 
which would not alter its messaging layer, but could help to make 
our lifes easier? Some few months ago I contacted Carl, and he was 
willing to post particular code sections for related areas. I read 
also some 2005 list, and picking from (apparently easy to fix) bugs/enhancements:

- DeRED - mark everything read
- fix URL display bug
- fix proxy
- fix msg loss during reconnect .... (might be more complex)


I just don't know, if it is good to bother Carl with those issues 
right now, when R3 is heading towards beta and we need to concentrate 
on it ...

But - at least above 3 suggestions, might make better usability impression 
for many ...

it would be a good idea if he gets time to publish that part of the 
code.

fix msg loss ... just put the msg into clipboard before posting

For moderartion purposes is it possible/safe to delete messages from 
a group in an Altme World?

Moderators currently have no ability to do that.
 

REBOL.org can blank posts on its archive, if requested with a good 
reason:
http://www.rebol.org/aga-groups-index.r?world=r3wp

Google Wave - is Altme in the browser.

These guys have been working on this for two years! WIth google resources? 
I guess ity takes a long time to make these thypes of apps when you 
are wedging technology not really ment to do it.

I'm not that impressed...(18 min. in to preseentation anyway...

lots of bugs...makes me feel better about the bugs I find in my app

Altissimo is Altme2. G Wave is just vapor as anything else, unless 
released. Google just knows, how to hype the stuff ...

Google Wave has been released

http://lifehacker.com/5371491/give-out-and-receive-your-google-wave-invitations-here

So - another hype from overhyped company happens :-)

= if you don't use iPone and Chrome as your browser, you are not 
modern and trendy :-)

We need to create VID3 equivalent, call it SideWave, and we have 
killer app for REBOL :-)

by equivalent I mean - wrap Google Wave, not to create competing 
system ...

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/

I basically want access to spelly :)

I'm using Google Wave at the moment (in Safari not Chrome) and it 
offers a *bit* more than AltME in a browser.

It should offer much more ....

At least according to 1h+ video I saw :-)

*bit* as in "The moon is a *bit* further away from us than the local 
supermarket".

The interesting thing is, that it has to come from overhyped Google. 
Their marketing is done by their name, not by how good their ideas 
are :-)

So - do we move to Wave now, as apparently the rest of the world 
sucks? :-)

Moving to chat ...

or to advocacy :-)

I just tried security essentials on one pc and it claimed to find 
a Trojan in one of the AltMe chats.
Anyone with the same experience?

Altme.com once again lost my world registrations :-( Our worlds are 
running locally without outage, and also our router has 234d uptime. 
I really wonder, when/how it can happen, but as it already happened 
in the past, this really start to be depressing ...

nng, I'm pretty sure the whole Internet is not busy...

I can't go two minutes today without having to force a refresh...

Pekr, welcome to my world.  I eventually gave up complaing about 
it and found the occurences to be far less frequent when I went down 
to a single world being hosted on my home PC.

Me too...How do I get it back up?

This is the first time I lost my world and one has been running no 
problem for over a year...

I re-started/registered and its back up again...I was afraid the 
old files might get overwritten or some other screw-up but no probs

It seems even the port used has remained the same...

Yes, the port used is reused when you start up again.  Whic is why 
if you run more than one world you restart them in the sequence they 
were created.  So you would have the world on 5400 started first, 
then while that world is running, restart the world running on 5401, 
and while that is also running, restart the world running on 5402. 
 (I'm hoping I got the port numbers correct, too lazy to look it 
up)

It was not enough in my case. Even if I have my first world running 
= 5400 port occupied, when I started another one on 5401, altme.com 
registered the second one on 5400 too. The trick is to prevent altme.com 
to get access to your 5400 port (first world) for a while, by disabling 
DST NAT on your router for a while. At least it was my case.

well I restarted two worlds and I do not think I started them in 
the same order but all seems fine...might have just got lucky..

this world back up again now ... everyone happy with these continued 
outages?

I don't understand why it keeps falling...

in any case the server its hosted on, should just scan the process 
list and restart it automatically when it falls...  maybe its a network 
issue... which makes the service unreachable.

It's a server issue ...

the other hosted altme worlds were done as well ( r3-alpha )

http://www.rebol.com/article/0433.html

how can someone get an account here if they aren't on the mailing 
list?

ask ... on rebol.org

Or post a request on their behalf into the
   Accounts
group.

We need their name, and email address (to send the join message to 
them)

is there a non member form which people can use on rebol.org to get 
access here?

its not for a specific person... but if I add support information 
for remark and provide altme as a resource... I want them to be able 
to get a user without being a reboler.