Chat?

Wind · Post by **Wind** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:16 pm

Maybe you should consider a chat mr. admin sir....

Post by **gannon** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:17 pm

We've had multiple chat rooms in the past, all have tended to fail. I stopped lurking in one after 4 months of no one else talking

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:23 pm

yeah, you probably need a board a little bit more active for a chatroom feature to work out.

ghosstt · Post by **ghosstt** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:45 pm

grossaffe wrote:yeah, you probably need a board a little bit more active for a chatroom feature to work out.

Your kidding right?

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:57 pm

ghosstt wrote:
grossaffe wrote:yeah, you probably need a board a little bit more active for a chatroom feature to work out.
Your kidding right?

don't get me wrong, this is a nice and active forum, but if you want to get a chatroom for each thread and ensure its an active chatroom, you'll probably need more. I've seen a chatroom flop on a forum before (granted, it wasn't as active as this one, but I think it was starting on its way). I've also seen another board where it has worked, and that board just happens to have tens of thousands of members.

ghosstt · Post by **ghosstt** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:18 pm

Why would you get a chatroom for each thread?

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:21 pm

ghosstt wrote:Why would you get a chatroom for each thread?

so if people wish to discuss a particular topic more thoroughly, they may.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:30 pm

grossaffe wrote:
ghosstt wrote:Why would you get a chatroom for each thread?
so if people wish to discuss a particular topic more thoroughly, they may.

You know that little button that says "Post Reply"? Well, thats what you use to discuss the topic more thoroughly.

If there is a chat system, it would have to be the same for each page in a javascript window that follows as you scroll up and down. Anything other than that doesn't seem like it would be worth it.

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:36 pm

vskid wrote:
grossaffe wrote:
ghosstt wrote:Why would you get a chatroom for each thread?
so if people wish to discuss a particular topic more thoroughly, they may.
You know that little button that says "Post Reply"? Well, thats what you use to discuss the topic more thoroughly.

If there is a chat system, it would have to be the same for each page in a javascript window that follows as you scroll up and down. Anything other than that doesn't seem like it would be worth it.

I guess you'd have to see it to get what i'm talking about. I think one of the main uses of it is for real-time conversation instead of hitting refresh so many times, especially if everyone's watching a sports game or something. you get all the comments as the game happens.

Post by **Triton** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:56 pm

i for one thing we should bring back the IRC chatroom, irc clients are free and easy to use (i use chatzilla for firefox personally) and there are a lot of cool things you can do with them, i have an idea that i may impliment as well

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:59 pm

We've had chat rooms in the past, and I think there's still an IRC thing around somewhere. The problem is they're used for a little while then abandoned.

The most recent incarnation is this:
http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?t=23640

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:18 pm

I think the problem we ran into was that really only a handful of members ever used the chat. I don't think we ever had more then 10 people in a chat at one time... I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure.

As for channels, I will agree that the IRC chatrooms were nice, although they weren't able to log any of the conversations. Ben might still have the good-old PHP chatroom, which was slow and ram hungry, but also kept a 96 hour record of conversations. The PHP was nice, but the IRC I still think won me over.

If we are to get a chat going again, it's be best to have some sort of topic or point of focus. I'm not saying the short weekly chats we once had were bad, but lacking any sort of focus and structure.

typamc95 · Post by **typamc95** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:39 pm

I am in shockSlayers Grease monkey chatroom right now

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:22 pm

Nah, ER made it. I'm in his chatroom now, all join in nowz!

SS

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:10 pm

typamc95 wrote:I am in shockSlayers Grease monkey chatroom right now

Yeah, I tried the chatroom thing... didn't work... I think what I should have done with the script is made it to where it automatically logged people in when they signed into the forums... I had some trouble with it though; I'm not the greatest in PHP, so the chat room is a little incomplete at the moment, but it technically works, shows you who's logged in, and has emoticon support.