Public Channels to Web

[Totec]

Use comet/long-poll or HTML5 websockets to post messages from public channels (auction, gossip, etc.) and quest broadcasts to a web client in real-time. Could be fun!

There are some super-easy-to-implement packages for the web part (a potentially stand-alone PSGI comet server that accepts local JSON posts and broadcasts them to listeners, and a nifty jQuery library for the client). The real development would be the hooks in the public channels/quest broadcasts to post the JSON object literals.

[Tynian]

Interesting idea. I've been thinking about ways to integrate the game into the web, so this idea fits nicely.

On the other hand, it lends more permanency to channel conversations that should best be left dead.

Overall, I like the idea.

[Matthias]

so would you be able to log in without logging on TFC. like.. just for the public channels?

[Totec]

so would you be able to log in without logging on TFC. like.. just for the public channels?

Kind of - the idea as proposed would be to let you browse to a given web page, and as an observer only, you would be able to read gossips/auctions/notices as they were happening. So you wouldn't have any presence in the game, but you could keep an eye on things happening in game that might interest you to log in.

I imagine a sick and twisted world where we monitor TFC events from our smartphones while we are out to dinner or supposed to be paying attention to family and friends. "Hold that thought! I *must* buy this item that just went up for auction, one sec..." And with telnet/mud clients now available for most phone OS's, what better way to know when its worth dealing with their kludgy interfaces to log in at a moment's notice to say hi to a long lost mudder now chatting away on gossip?

But yeah, that's the basic idea.

[Tenko]

*blink* I can telnet in from my phone???? You've GOT to tell me how! NOW!

[Tokugawa]

*blink* I can telnet in from my phone???? You've GOT to tell me how! NOW!

If you have an Android phone download and install the application called "AndroMud". Not a great way to play, but you can check notes and such.

[Cordir]

If you have an I-Phone, you can download Telnet. Also not a great way to play, but you CAN function using it. Sorta.

[Tenko]

I have neither a Droid nor the iPhone, I only have a Nokia stupid smartphone. It's just as well, I log in too much as it is....*sigh*

[Tynian]

Telnet on phone cannot be a pleasant way to go...

[Lycron]

Telnet on anything isn't pleasant :P

[Tynian]

Telnet on anything isn't pleasant :P

Telnet on toast isn't too bad...