chat room?

[n2nsanity]

can we get one?

[Alan92RTTT]

Not right now. Things like shoutbox that properly integrate with the forums take a lot of resources.

We don't have resources to spare at the moment. I plan to upgrade soon maybe after that.

[blindmist]

could use tinychat and do an embed. All traffic stays on their servers.

[Alan92RTTT]

which means all login and access is controlled there.


That has some issues. Its better to have an integrated solution.

[colt45 gto]

problem with chat rooms is....

1, the novilty will wear off quickly, so its wasted effort setting it up.
2, people will tend to post more questions in there than in the main forum. so the actual post count in the forum will die out until the novilty wears off.
3, folk will get fedup with sitting in there waiting for someone els to login and log out.

there is more things against it than there are for it.
a shout box is probably better but then again who logs in via main page? i have my details set to always logged in.

[n2nsanity]

with over 1000 active members, i think someone would always be in there. on 3sforums there was always someone on when just 50 members were active there. most of them are spending more time here now. either way is fine, just a suggestion. would be nice to see how it worked out

[Austin@STM]

I like the idea, i was on 3sforums for a little while and used chat quite often.

[Gene]

chat is a GREAT idea, alan, pm me how much we'd need to get more bandwidth to allow it. i'd be willing to pay for that depending on cost.

[Austin@STM]

chat is a GREAT idea, alan, pm me how much we'd need to get more bandwidth to allow it. i'd be willing to pay for that depending on cost.

I agree, if all it will take is a little money to setup, then I would be happy to donate to this as well. If it an issue of time, and personel, then I guess we will just have to wait for the more important things with the forum to finish being straigtened out.

[Blue91SL]

Meebo offers a pretty well-designed chat room for sites like this. I use their online messenger to log in to everything (Facebook, AIM, etc.) and I never have a problem with it. They even support video chats. It'd be worthwhile to hit them up and see what this kind of thing would cost. It would still run on their servers instead of ours (which I know some are opposed to), but in the several years that I've been using Meebo, either via another site or their own, I've never had a breach of privacy or any negative encounters.

[enigma9o7]

Chat can't take much bandwidth can it? I mean plain text is nothing....

[Gene]

i remember on BAWC it used a good amount from what jeff/vira said.

[Atrosity]

I am glad that I added a function that people liked. :)


There was always a lot of people in the chat system. Granted my site never had a lot of traffic and it was used often...At the time my site was doing decent for a forum there were 7-15 people in it at night while having 5+ in other rooms.

It is really great because a lot of member will be working on there car and something happens...they pop up chat, ask away and get an instantaneous response and allowing them get back to working on there car instead of posting a thread about it and waiting 20 mins for a response....although the bad part about the chat was that it took a lot of thread discussions away which sets it back...it would work very well on a site like 3si where the wealth of knowledge is already there but I don't know about a site with not enough content built yet to over power 3si....

Just my thoughts.

Chat never took much bandwidth on myside...

[Mike-92RT]

Eric, i wanna be "VERIFIED" also lol

and wtf is that INDEPENDENT shit?