Hmm, I read, but there isn't much to comment on, except a 'Thanks'. You're doing a great job at making the infrastructure more scalable and useful.

I don't like IRC for serious discussion because with multiple persons it gets chaotic (there is no sub-threading or quoting) while you cannot use the normal gestures like in real life conversation either. Because its real-time there is also problem with different timezones, and I like how you're trying to solve that.