Should We Have A Chat Area for TWF?
by demonhale, Sat, 2008-02-02 17:49
Web App like Chat Yes...
13% (1 vote)
Ajax Chat Yes...
0% (0 votes)
IRC Channel Yes...
38% (3 votes)
YM Room Yes...
13% (1 vote)
Bad Idea...
38% (3 votes)
Total votes: 8
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demonhale posted this at 17:52 — 2nd February 2008.
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I remember the old days when TWF had an IRC Channel... So shall we revive the nostalgia of those days for the all new TWF?
kazimmerman posted this at 18:13 — 2nd February 2008.
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Could be fun and helpful at some times. Might detract from forum postings for some things but on a whole could be good for fast support and general chat.
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JeevesBond posted this at 18:45 — 2nd February 2008.
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I'm going to vote no for now. Being perfectly candid I don't think we've got enough members to pull something like a chatroom off at the moment.
It's a good idea (and if enough people ask for it we'll implement it), but it would look really bad if we setup a chat room and there weren't constantly people in there.
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kazimmerman posted this at 19:14 — 2nd February 2008.
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That's kind of how I feel. I think you need a pretty active forum for a chat room to be effective. Therefore I chose the verb "could."
Scuba Steve posted this at 21:27 — 4th February 2008.
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It would be nice, and i would use it, But I couldn't be on it all the time, the forum is nice but slow paced, so I can't imagine the chat room would be that much more effiecient
demonhale posted this at 07:51 — 5th February 2008.
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Well settle for a chatbox instead then?
JeevesBond posted this at 09:16 — 5th February 2008.
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I'm generally biased against chatboxes. What value do they add? Generally they're just full of people saying things like:
Sorry, not trying to put you down Demonhale, but chatboxes just don't really serve any purpose IMO.
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Megan posted this at 14:44 — 5th February 2008.
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What about scheduling chats once a week or so? Obviously it's going to be hard to find a time that suits everyone but we could even have two sessions at different times for people in different parts of the world (and Jeevesbond, who's up at all hours anyway).
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demonhale posted this at 19:40 — 7th February 2008.
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No offense taken, it's just with the new things in TWF, it would be pretty nice if there is a time where regular members can chat away... Hmmmm perhaps the time for this is not now, but I'm still hopeful...
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JeevesBond posted this at 02:12 — 8th February 2008.
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That's what I think too. Am looking forward to a time when it is busy enough to do this. Glad you're not downhearted about it.
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Michelle posted this at 21:22 — 9th February 2008.
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I abandoned the chat room on my own site because it was always empty. I think if you had scheduled chats and turned it on just for those it might be nice. But having an empty chat room all the time looks bad, I think.
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Renegade posted this at 18:01 — 10th February 2008.
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Yes, an IRC room would be good if it was scheduled for discussions after an article at APC was posted or if a direction for TWF is to be decided upon or something. Other than that, it will mostly be empty
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