Chat Room

[RcHeliwidow]

Simple question really, does anyone ever actually go in there and chat? Other than the 3 very nice gentlemen I have spoken to in there. I just see people coming in and directly out without so much as a hello. I may be a [COLOR=magenta][I][B]'WOMAN'[/B][/I] [/COLOR][COLOR=black]but I can assure you I can compete with the best of them. :p [/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]I have always found that chat rooms can be quite fun and helpful when looking for answers. So maybe see a few more in there soon?[/COLOR]

[Ashley Davis]

the problem is the implementation (sorry about this Stuart).....

Chat rooms tend to work when you can see who's in there when you are still using the forum, flash chat forces you to leave the forum. So people don't get to see easily that someone they want to talk to is in there and just join in. Instead they pop in and out without even saying hello.

[fatmantom]

i have both running at the same time....

using the tabs on IE, im normally in there on my lonesome! :(

cheers,

[Boggy]

bang on ton two tabs and listen for the pings!!:)

[Steve]

But you still have to switch tabs in order to flick between the forum and the chat room. In other words, as Ash says, you have to leave the forum to go into chat. I agree with Ash. I want to see who's currently in the chat room and what's being talked about on the home page, so I can browse and post in the forum and see what's going on in chat all at the same time. Thereby I can make a choice at any time as to whether or not I want to join in with the chat.

[Boggy]

but then you'll see what young tom is saying about you!!!:D

[fatmantom]

thats a bit lazy manager! all you have to do is switch tabs when u here a PING! (as boggie said!) and u can decide if u want to engage in the convo!

if not.... just check it every so often....as you would if it was embedded into the homepage!

c'mon pleople! get involved! :p

[RcHeliwidow]

Once the chat room is opened you should still have a forum window open to allow you to flick back & forth. I do. :)

[Ashley Davis]

Prefer it done where the chat is a window in the forum font page, makes for a much busier chat room.
Just my experience of having run a forum with integrated chat, the chat was ballistic. Then I separated them.....no more chat.

[Stuart]

Ok I'll run both. But I prefer a seperate tab.....is cleaner in my view. If you want a box on the front to say who's using flashchat then that too can be done. I think see peoples chat on the front screen could take away from the main site. But I'm open to ideas....

[Stuart]

Also Flash chat cannot be ported into a window hence its not done this way.

[fatmantom]

no harm in trying i guess!

better than no one being in there...

[Ashley Davis]

Sorry Stuart, I did apologise upfront and appreciate what it's like to manage a forum However, I know from experience that chat needs a little 'help' to get going.

[Stuart]

[quote=Ashley Davis;84847]Sorry Stuart, I did apologise upfront and appreciate what it's like to manage a forum However, I know from experience that chat needs a little 'help' to get going.[/quote]


Ash,

No apology needed.....:)

[RcHeliwidow]

Since posting this thread we've actually had 6, count em 6 people in chatting. I think people just really need to give it a go. Front page or no front page, but by keeping it off the front page it gives people all the more reason to 'come see what's going on'
But thats just my opinion. Dont you just luurve women?? :p