If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do?
ntoshev: I've thought about making a real-time forum: basically the same thing as an ordinary forum software, but with presence capability and posts happening in real time without reloading. Or, if you look at it in another way, it would be a chat room with persistence, result is searchable, possibly threaded.The hope is that conversations in such a medium would be something in between regular chat and regular forums, and they could be compelling enough.The technology is not a big issue for building this, the Tornado framework has a chat example from which you can start. Text messages are short, they can be kept in memory and saved to disk once in a while either DIY or using something like Redis.