Several people have asked about the chat system in The Lacuna Expanse and whether it is something they could use in their own sites. Indeed it is, though until today it was anonymous only. Read on for the details.

There have been a number of blog entries, tweets, reddits, diggs, and everything else in the Perl community over the past couple of days about The Lacuna Expanse. It's super cool to see the excitement level; it wasn't something I expected.

I figured it was about time that I made a bit of a post about it. So here I am, hoping to answer some of the questions I've seen posted, and talk a little bit about how the project came together and what that means for the Perl community. Whew! Seems like a lot for one post. =)