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Add a chatroom to the site. It would cut down on the number of useless posts, be a way to communicate instantly, save you bandwidth... just makes sense.

I totally agree with this Idea...I think that too much time, effort, and space is wasted on slamming eachother and other off topic banter...with a chat room or a seperate sub category for just talking in general would be a great idea. Also, that room or category could be used for those who have a hatred for the cars, or don't even own one anymore to hang out in...

Drivesthebeast,Aug 30 2005, 10:38 PM Wrote:I totally agree with this Idea...I think that too much time, effort, and space is wasted on slamming eachother and other off topic banter...with a chat room or a seperate sub category for just talking in general would be a great idea.  Also, that room or category could be used for those who have a hatred for the cars, or don't even own one anymore to hang out in...
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Hmm..

Telling people to fuk off and calling people jerkass in real time....

I like it

I think the principle benefit would be to reduce the post whoring. I mean granted, Darkpuppet is more accepting of it being quite the whore himself at times, however guys like Scoob, Bunny and myself DO get a little out of control... would make sense to have even a java chat room intergrated into or linked from the site...

If there was a chat room i wouldnt use it. This has nothing to do with post counts. I just think it would look bad that i'm in a chat room at work vs. on a message forum.

not to mention that a chat room require that all the whores are online all at the sametime.

I'm looking at the chatroom that [FJ]'s running, and even with their membership, it's pretty freakin' dead... I'll investigate something.... just not sure how useful a chatroom is going to be.

USE A FAST CHAT ROOM - BASED LIKE MSN - ITS AN AWSOME IDEA BECAUSE MY MSN DOSENT WORK - AND I WOULD LOVE TO CHAT WITH PEOPLE - REAL TIME!!

Web based chat rooms usually suck.. either they're so slow that it's a pain in the ass to use, or else there's nobody ever online (or it's just full of idlers).

This is a really good flash based chat that's easy to use... I'm sure we could intergrate something very similar into the site:

Flash Chat

and most of the time we're all on at the same time...

chatroom is the last thing on my list... there's a lot of work to do before chat.

darkpuppet,Aug 31 2005, 08:38 PM Wrote:chatroom is the last thing on my list... there's a lot of work to do before chat.
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If you can find out how to source that SWF, I'll host it and you can just to a link for now.

chat is typically underutilised on forums
A lot of people have MSN...
SWF chat is more than just downloading a flash file
there are so many other things that need to be done before chat
and, no, I'm not going to link to an external half-assed implemented chat device.. which the flash chat is.

didn't we try an IIRC channel before as well?

anyways, regardless, it's a good suggestion, but the time isn't right, so it's on hold.

next suggestion please

chatroom failed on one of the largest Focus forums, I dont think it would last here ?