In the spirit of previous Rails-based product announcements that I’ve
seen here, I’m pleased to announce Rails’ newest progeny, at http://www.lingr.com.
Lingr is a community site where you can chat about your current
interests, in realtime, right in your browser. You can find related
topics, meet new people, and just have fun in general. Membership is
free- in fact you don’t even have to join to chat. By joining, you gain
the ability to create your own rooms, have a Favorite Rooms list, and
some other goodies, but anonymous users are welcome to chat.
For the technically-inclined amongst you (99% of the people reading this
post, I assume :-)), you might be interested in some of the technical
details, which are covered in a blog post I made at http://blog.lingr.com/2006/08/lingr_under_the.html.
For the technically-inclined amongst you (99% of the people reading
this post, I assume :-)), you might be interested in some of the
technical details, which are covered in a blog post I made at http://blog.lingr.com/2006/08/lingr_under_the.html.
I may not have looked hard enough, but I can’t see where the push part
of Comet happens in Lingr. To me it appears like it is polling the
server for new messages.
