focus 4x4

i think we need a chat room - what do you think?

fuzzy

what difference would it make compared to general discussion and muppet rooms?

**caz**

you mean like a shout box?

if so i think that would be a good idea!

maybe a poll see what people think?

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fuzzy

how does that work?

RONNIE AMIS

iTrader: (17)

like an MSN style thing?

good idea

focus 4x4

Yeah thats the one.. ;o)

BM08

it has been discussed before and it didnt go anywhere

As above what difference is that between a chat thingy and general/muppet room?

RONNIE AMIS

iTrader: (17)

you can chat to just one person in a seperate window, not in an actual post.

think it's a good idea mate

fuzzy

i still dont get it. if you want to chat to 1 certain person cant you just pm them? i dont use msm .

Thrush

iTrader: (1)

Real-time chat (as per MSN), multi person convo's (as per MSN), but without the hassle of MSN

Entirely different than a post based bulletin board system.

We used to have one back in the XROC BB days, and it was pretty good; so long as you're a registered board member, you just clicked the "Chat Room" link at the top of the page (up where New Posts etc is) and a new window opened with the chat room and whoever was also signed in. Simples. None of this adding people to MSN, etc etc, and good for those that don't use MSN (I don't, cos it's shite, and no-one I speak with regularly uses it either - Google Talk FTW!)

BM08

yeah but its been talked about before, i bet half the time it would be empty............

I think everyone would use a shout box if it was at the top of general though.

Thrush

iTrader: (1)

So what if it's been talked about before? Your post had no questions about whether it had been talked about before or not, but rather why it is different than a thread in the muppet room

BM08

Just saying it was talked about before, and i dont see any chat room feature do you?

I dont think it will take off thats all.

focus 4x4

Just a thought, doesnt matter.

J1mbo

iTrader: (1)

good idea imo

fuzzy

i still dont get why real time chat with multi person is any different to what were doing now? and what hassle do you get with msm?
i type here someone responds etc etc .

**caz**

i think the shout box is a great idea, its at the top of the page and gets everyone involved together in "real" time, if that makes sense, no need to refresh the page all the time just to see if someone has sent an off topic reply etc cos off topics can go in the shout box, means the forum will be a lot cleaner and tidier.....

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Thrush

iTrader: (1)

Thats the kind of logic I like to see! Because it's been talked about before, and not yet implemented, it's not worth talking about again or trying?

Imagine if thats what happened to the wheel! "well someone mentioned it once, but no ones tried it, so lets not bother"



Just because you don't think it will take off, does that mean thats the final say? I think what you mean is you wouldn't be interested in using it - well here's a shock for you - you don't HAVE to use something cos it's there!

Are you interested in bird watching? No? Strange, that seems to have taken off! Are you interested in train spotting? No? Strange, that seems to have taken off aswel! How about Collecting moths? Not your cup of tea - well hundreds of thousands of other people seem to like it!

The world doesn't revolve around you or what you think is a good idea or not

Thrush

iTrader: (1)

http://tinychat.com/Passionford

Dangerous Malcolm..

There used to be a 'shout box' many moons ago, went with Petrucci I think?

G950KDT

iTrader: (2)

we have one on c2oc.net for us, the site admin fired one into it, be lucky if anyone uses it theyre too busy browsing forums and we're still a small site as well so probably wont work tbh.