I used to think that the way, how Paltalk works, was the future of chatting, but when I experienced it myself, I changed my opinion. Permanently having a mic open is just too distracting and people abuse it by being too self-indulgent. They talk for overly long times, are very redundant in what they say etc. It would be better just to post one or several voice and/or video messages to the channel, for everybody to listen to or watch it, only if and when they want to. These can then spark a discussion about them. For that, however, one needs a pin board to every channel, with larger space than the current „topic“ feature of IRC, and with easier functionality. It should be possible to drag and drop links and objects onto the pin board.
Does there already exist a possibility to implement this indirectly? Like a pin board web service, which could be linked to at the topic. IRC-Galleria maybe? A bot could automatically send the IPs of all channel visitors to the web service, which could then restrict access to the pin board to these IPs. Unfortunately dragging and dropping objects into certain areas of web pages hasnt caught on yet.
Anyway it’s a shame that Chat and Instant Messenging haven’t yet been fully integrated. With IM it isn’t possible to operate channels, with more than two visitors and these should have a pin board, too.
