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EventStreams? #144

Closed steko closed 7 years ago

steko commented 7 years ago

The new official EventStreams service seems interesting. I have no idea about the benefits it could bring to anon but perhaps the pros and cons of IRC based wikichanges vs EventStreams could be discussed here?

That being said I thin anon is working ok, and Wikipedia has so much infrastructure built up around the IRC stream that they aren't going to be turning it off anytime soon. So a general discussion of the pros/cons of EventStreams vis-a-vis IRC probably belongs in some Wikipedia space.

edsu commented 7 years ago

I think one of the benefits is that it should be easier to connect via HTTP than the IRC protocol. It would be useful to run a stability test to see how it fares for weeks at a time. Another benefit is that HTTP (port 80/443) is less likely to be blocked on a network than IRC (port 6667).

lokal-profil commented 7 years ago

I just got a warning that the RCStream is being shut down in about 1.5 months. Ping @ottomata

edsu commented 7 years ago

Ok, thanks.

ottomata commented 7 years ago

It is true! But RCStream != IRC RecentChanges. IRC RecentChanges (which it seems anon runs on?) will be around for a while.

ottomata commented 7 years ago

But, yeah, switch to EventStreams!

lokal-profil commented 7 years ago

Ah. my apologies for panicking =)

edsu commented 7 years ago

Everything is still working for now, so I'm closing this.