WyldRyde Active Channels
If you are using any IRC client which supports the irc:// protocol, then clicking on the irc:// will make your client join the chosen channel on WyldRyde. Otherwise, click on the channel name to load a Java-based chat window.
About Active Public Channels:
Freshness factor:
"Freshness" was developed because giving information like "I last saw this channel at 21:32 Zulu Mountain time" isn't very useful. Unused channels are automatically expired after not being seen for a week. Using a complex algorithm, we are weed out temporarily created channels. The result is less fluff, and better results. But that still doesn't explain freshness... Since normal channels take up to a week to expire, freshness rating is a calculation of how far the listing is from being expired. Listings with a freshness of 99% or 100% are very recent. A channel with a freshness of 50% means it's not been seen for 3 1/2 days. Thus, at a glance, you can quickly tell if a channel will be something you'd like to check out or not. A low freshness rating doesn't necessarily indicate an outdated channel however.
Users:
Numbers are nice, but a visual representation of a channel's user count allows one to quickly scan over the results and locate a desired channel. The point is to allow you to just LOOK and see what you want. No thinking required. Other important information usually overlooked is storing Max user counts and Average user counts on each channel. Is this channel usually this large, or did 100 clones just join and get glined?
New and Established channels:
To better help you decide which channels to join, newly added channels are marked with "New!", and channels that have existed for many weeks, are marked as "Established". Channels that are not marked with either, just mean they aren't new, but haven't existed long enough yet to be marked as Established.
Results are delayed:
Topics and the Current, Avg, and Max statistics are not fetched or calculated in real time and maybe delayed by several hours.
If you are using any IRC client which supports the irc:// protocol, then clicking on the irc:// will make your client join the chosen channel on WyldRyde. Otherwise, click on the channel name to load a Java-based chat window.
About Active Public Channels:
Freshness factor:
"Freshness" was developed because giving information like "I last saw this channel at 21:32 Zulu Mountain time" isn't very useful. Unused channels are automatically expired after not being seen for a week. Using a complex algorithm, we are weed out temporarily created channels. The result is less fluff, and better results. But that still doesn't explain freshness... Since normal channels take up to a week to expire, freshness rating is a calculation of how far the listing is from being expired. Listings with a freshness of 99% or 100% are very recent. A channel with a freshness of 50% means it's not been seen for 3 1/2 days. Thus, at a glance, you can quickly tell if a channel will be something you'd like to check out or not. A low freshness rating doesn't necessarily indicate an outdated channel however.
Users:
Numbers are nice, but a visual representation of a channel's user count allows one to quickly scan over the results and locate a desired channel. The point is to allow you to just LOOK and see what you want. No thinking required. Other important information usually overlooked is storing Max user counts and Average user counts on each channel. Is this channel usually this large, or did 100 clones just join and get glined?
New and Established channels:
To better help you decide which channels to join, newly added channels are marked with "New!", and channels that have existed for many weeks, are marked as "Established". Channels that are not marked with either, just mean they aren't new, but haven't existed long enough yet to be marked as Established.
Results are delayed:
Topics and the Current, Avg, and Max statistics are not fetched or calculated in real time and maybe delayed by several hours.
