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The Mercury System is an Instant Messaging service written completely in PERL. It is meant as a low-maintainance system that will not require an executable server program to send messages between the users. It uses a minimal number of PERL/CGI scripts which will allow nearly anyone with a Web site to offer a full-featured IM system to it's members.

Why this weblog? This is a techlog that will announce the latest advancements in the system. What has been added and what has been changed to the system. It will also inform those interested when testing begins and when the system can be expected to go live.

Why on NuTang? I wanted a site that already had a solid user base to test the system which will ensure the largest number of testers possible. NuTang is also growing and I imagine that it will continue to for a long time which makes it a perfect place to test it.

How does this affect you? When it is ready and has been tested to satisfaction, you will be able to register with the IM system and have a full-featured IM system with which you can message all of your friends on NuTang. You also get to be some of the first people anywhere to try it and hopefully it will take off from there.

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"AWAY"
Saturday. 7.24.04 1:18 am
I have added a feature that I had forgotten to add to the poll for voting. I have now given (eventual) users the ability to set their status to "away" and create away messages. There had always been an icon for online and another for offline status but I added a third icon which is for members that are away. You click on the away icon by their name to view their away message in a small window.

As it stands now there is a default message or you can customize. But you will have to enter an away message every time you change your status to away. This is done to save room on the server that is hosting the system. It will be changed so that paying members will be able save multiple messages from which they can select at any time in the future.

Please note that most sites that will make use of the Mercury System will probably already have a membership system and the special 'paid' features would just be added incentives to what they already offer. But the system could potentially take up a good deal of space if there weren't atleast two types of accounts.

I also added the user's current status to their friends list as well as each IM window will tell you that friend's current status. You will be able to send messages to friends when they are away so now the IM window will tell you that they are still 'away'.

This one feature required A LOT of work but it's another step towards making the Mercury System fully-featured.
2 Comments.


that's cool
» Aji on 2004-07-25 08:11:25


...hurry? :-D
» AshleyEverhart on 2004-07-26 09:34:13

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