Was I Right or Was I Right?!

I missed this post — Getting Real: Help us put out the Campfire - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) — by Jason Fried last week, for a short test of the upcoming Campfire service:

We’re getting really close to launching Campfire, our simple web-based group chat tool for business. We’ve been using it internally for the past month and have been putting it through its paces.

We’ve been load testing it, throwing thousands of requests at it, trying to find out where it breaks under heavy loads. Simulation is one thing, but real world loads are another. So we figured we’d enlist the SvN army to help put out the campfire.

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Transcripts are not visible to guests (everyone testing Campfire right now will be a guest). Members will have access to full chat and file transcripts (filterable by room, date, and person).

I start to be able to sense what Campfire is like. I want it. Presumably, like Writeboards, Campfire chat will be accessible to Basecamp projects, which would fill a real need in my life.