When Discourse was submitted to HN, this immediately came to mind, though I couldn't remember its name. It was a breath of fresh air in terms of approach and design style. It would be awesome to see chat-forum hybrids like this become popular, because I've wondered what could be done with a more evolved IRC. I only regret it's not in a language I operate in, and I'm not sure how easy it'd be to customise to add features.<p>A little tip - hit Ctrl+Enter to post your message.<p>Here's the relevant discussion thread (thanks davidcollantes), which got lots of comments and upvotes:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499845" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499845</a><p>There's also an open-source release of it, but it seems not to have been updated in months:<p><a href="https://github.com/cheshirecats/CuriousWall" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cheshirecats/CuriousWall</a><p>(Also, is there a bug with scrolling on Chrome? No matter whether I scroll up or down, my mousewheel sends me down the page.)
Boy is this new title lame. Formerly it was something like: "Pivory: the forum software that had a chance" , which told us that we weren’t supposed to be looking at the thread, but rather the software used to implement it.<p>Which is pretty cool.<p>But - as was mentioned in at least one of the other cheshirecat/Pivory threads a homepage for this project would be really handy for these purposes :)