Show HN: An experiment - IRC channel from just a URL (lalo-g7stltno.dotcloud.com)

OP here, this is related with a story I've seen today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330020

I've been working on a similar concept but based on IRC.

Once authenticated with your Twitter account you can join a room using the URL, the path represents a channel. Being IRC based means that you can join the same channel using an IRC client.

The code is here: https://github.com/malditogeek/lalo

I don't get what it is and don't want to make a twitter account to find out.

Could someone explain what is and why it needs a twitter account.

was kinda interested - but first step being a twitter authorised killed curiosity right then and there..

suggest maybe linking to something of an explanation before jumping straight into auth-step

The instant Twitter auth kills it for me, sorry.

Please please please if you are going to require a Facebook or twitter or google or MySpace or whatever new service-of-the-month login, please put a video or screenshots so we can see the offering first. It's like asking for a social security number without telling what you plan to do with it.

No idea what this is, I get a Twitter login page.

This is an IRC channel from just a URL: irc://irc.efnet.org/HN

What's the difference?

Oh interesting...back button.

tl;dr: ircd with integrated web client.

I'm not sure what advantage you get from the integration here, compared to a conventional ircd and a web gateway?

Not sure how this is better than http://qwebirc.org/ which is actually a fully featured IRC client.