Chat?

[mogul_pro]

We seem to have a good portion of members online at any given time...

What about having a chat section. Not a forum but some kind of chat room that we could have on the website for registered members?

What do you guys think? Would it be hard to setup?

[cwp_sedan]

We had a chat on my last forum. Basically it was Java based but then we movid it to an IRC setup. It was fun for a while and people were interested but it died off and only was busy once in a while. It might be busy all the time on this board though...

There is also a lot more opportunity for misuse and stuff like that.

[mogul_pro]

I just always notice two.. three,... sometimes 4 LINEs of usernames online at one time on the forum.. consistantly.. so thought it would be a cool feature to have.. maybe worth giving a shot.

[mit-gee-mui]

http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=12855&highlight=chat

We used to have that, but it was quickly misused.



More threads on this topic
http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=14431&highlight=chat

http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=17920&highlight=chat

http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=15673&highlight=chat

http://www.torontomazda3.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=15671&highlight=chat



See how they all went downhill?

Maybe the idea can be brought up again, but I don't know whether it will be implemented, especially based on past experiences.:whoa

[FONZ]

I like the chatroom idea, But it should automatically sign you in as your username registered under the board.

[Broli]

i saw it on a board with smf

it was cool, if someone knows how to add it to a vb board i would be intersted in piolting it to see it it would be worth it

[1flycdnM3]

had this on the TorontoAccords website too and it died off pretty quickly (within days actually) and this forum is of similar size. Hard to say if it actually works. I would be down if we had one though.

[yearoftherat]

You can add a shoutbox that needs the registered user to login and such. Latest version is vbShout 2.1

http://www.vbhackers.com/f76/ajax-flatfile-vbshout-2-1-a-4536/

Take a look at the demo here

http://forums.gzevolution.net/