QUOTE (nekronos @ Jul 10 2006, 01:58 PM) you seem to be missing he purpose of the whole dd of this site vs irc /bt...
and irc isn't difficult, bots would be difficult... way too many releases and as mentioned above... this was made partly for those who arn't able to use irc/bt thus throwing out the idea of having a bunch of super bots.
a donor channel would be pointless, this can be achieved on the site and fansub groups shouldn't be seeing such a thing as stolen revenue... any who does shouldn't be fansubbing, period.
I am having diffuculties seeing how the demerits outweigh the advantages. I hate having to idle in about 40 chans across 3 servers. Rizon and ImmortalAnime being the two biggest. Fansub groups would not have a problem idling a bot in the fansub.tv channel, as it would give them acess to an unparreleled amount of potential donors. Additionaly IRC labeling tequniques will draw IRC users to the HTTP side.
As for why am i pushing it so hard? Being deployed overseas gives sildiers such as myself limited options fro internet. Right now i am usinf a VSAT Terminal shared between 25 other people, and the service is based out of the UK with the uplink in Italy. This causes HTTP downloads to time out and fail due to the massive distances, latency, and general crappy routing. You can script IRC to re-queue the file you were downloading after it times out. As well as those benafits it is not diffucult to set up an IRC channel, and it is free. A massive bot is unessasary, Fansub groups can just idle their new release bot, whereas you would have to join their chan for the archive bot. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
However, other than that, an IRC channel i do not se as being nessasary for fansub.tv to continue to serve its purpose, and is an answer in search of a problem.
As for a donor channel, it is indeed very far from pointless. Take for example any of the big DVD ripping groups. People donate to gain acess to larger queues, faster speeds, and other benifits. Doing that on the HTTP side would be diffucult, and unsecure, and would be akin to those pay to enter pornography sites.
Fansubing may not be easy, but distubuting you hard work is both diffucult and expensive. Not to mention that many fansub groups are composed of colledge students, and that is not the richest demographic, i can assure you of that. This is why revenue becomes so inportant, to make it easier for the consumer to, well, consume.