Yes, an IRC room would be

Renegade — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:01:53 +0000

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

I abandoned the chat room on

Michelle — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:22:19 +0000

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.

Michelle

Hmmmm perhaps the time for

JeevesBond — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:12:15 +0000

Hmmmm perhaps the time for this is not now, but I'm still hopeful...

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.

No offense taken, it's just

demonhale — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:40:46 +0000

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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Megan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:44:26 +0000

visit my l33t site and that (spam url)

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).

I'm generally biased against

JeevesBond — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:16:19 +0000

I'm generally biased against chatboxes. What value do they add? Generally they're just full of people saying things like:

Hello!
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w00t! A chatbox!
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This site suxX0rs!!!1
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This s1te roXxorrz!!!11!!
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Sorry, not trying to put you down Demonhale, but chatboxes just don't really serve any purpose IMO.

Well settle for a chatbox

demonhale — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:51:21 +0000

Well settle for a chatbox instead then?

It would be nice, and i

Scuba Steve — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:27:02 +0000

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

That's kind of how I feel.

mscreashuns — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:14:13 +0000

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."

I'm going to vote no for

JeevesBond — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:45:05 +0000

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.