• The site migration is complete! Hopefully everything transferred properly from the multiple decades old software we were using before. If you notice any issues please let me know, thanks! Also, I'm still working on things like chatbox, etc so hopefully those will be working in the next week or two.

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I remember a forum that I used to be on had an online chat room for the users. It would just provide another way of conversing between people. Sometimes I want to talk with someone right there, not wait for posts.

Just an idea.


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i think that would be a great idea. especially since it could give people a better way to get info and help faster......we would just have to have some kind of mod in there to keep the idiots away
 
I talked to Chance about this and here is the only concern...

A chat module is a bandwidth hog, and while the forum can support it right now, in the future when we have alot more users, the chat module would have to be dropped.

Now the question is do we add it for a little bit, and tick some people off when we take it off, or do we just leave it the way it is and that way no one knows what they are missing.

Its a tough call. I would love to have a chat module, but I also know that its going to cost some $$$ in the future as the site grows, and I for one would like to Mod my car...hehe...instead of bankroll bandwidth for a forum.

webracin
 
LOL. I personally would rather be without it. Id rather see some online gatherings using AIM, Yahoo! or any other instant messenger. They are more equipped and built for it than a site chat is.

Id rather conserve the bandwidth for forum use specifically than a chat personally.
 


Well, there's no doubt it would be used. But in my personal view and opinion you would have to weigh its use vs. the cost to the site in light of tools already available such as AIM, Yahoo! and the like. I have never used a forum chat before, but I use the instant messengers hundreds of times a day
 
on another forum i frequent, the users asked for a chat, and got it, but it hardly ever gets used.

the other thing to think about is that if problems/issues are solved in chat, and not on the forum (yes i know they could be on aim too) then there isnt a good way to catalog that for others to see later, whereas if it's posts on the forum, others can come back to see that later.
 
Toasty to the rescue! new nick name. Super Toasty!

Scotty, did you give Flynn his jar of pickles yet?
 


Oh yeah, I guess for someone who has not followed along it would appear to be a strange thing. Flynn has a thing about confusing pickles with currency and I like to give him a hard time about it.
 
well hey, they're usually green.... but i was just hoping that the word 'pickles' wasnt a code word for something 'else' hehe. --but what do you expect, goofy things are my bread & butter!
 


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