So basically, this is IRC, but the initial authors were removed, and the whole thing is less efficient because it runs over HTTP. At some point you have to go

So basically, this is IRC, but the initial authors were removed, and the whole thing is less efficient because it runs over HTTP. At some point you have to go outside of the HTTP world and look for what already exists rather than reinventing the wheel. Does it solve news delivery ? RSS do that already. Does it solve instant notification and presence notification? Lower protocols already do that with lower overhead.