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This community really needs a live chat program. I have no idea how to do it…but sometimes I see a dozen of us down there and I think to myself…wouldn’t it be fun to talk live with these fun people.
What do others think…am I crazy?I know it was discussed before, but it never came to be. I just think it would be really difficult to keep track. We would turn into two seperate communities.
skigod377 wrote:I know it was discussed before, but it never came to be. I just think it would be really difficult to keep track. We would turn into two seperate communities.
Can you explain what you mean? I am a member of several communities that have a board like this with a chat added…and its not seperate at all. And to my knowledge no one keeps track. What do you mean by that part?
The chat room idea was discussed in this thread, and Snapdragon said that it would be feasible to add a chat room feature to the forum if it was wanted. Vantid and Chessie were in favor of the idea, but I don’t think they ever decided whether they were going to do it or not.
I think having a chat room attached to the forum would be fun!
whippetluv wrote:Can you explain what you mean? I am a member of several communities that have a board like this with a chat added…and its not seperate at all. And to my knowledge no one keeps track. What do you mean by that part?
Sorry. Keep track of conversations. Folks would be discussing things that were discussed in live chat and others who were not in the loop would be lost. The two seperate communities being those who are live chat and those who post on the forums. Kinda like the LJ community and this community. Separate. How would it work? I have never done anything except a chat room.
I think Whippet meant having something similar to what we had discussed in the previous thread.
mimitrek wrote:I think Whippet meant having something similar to what we had discussed in the previous thread.
I remember discussing it but i kinda like our forum family… Would it just be forum members who can chat? I would hate to see a chat room like others I have seen.
I would think that only forum members could chat, just like only forum members can make posts.
I’ve never used a chat room before. What kind of problems have you seen in the past?
mimitrek wrote:I would think that only forum members could chat, just like only forum members can make posts.
I’ve never used a chat room before. What kind of problems have you seen in the past?Its like a bunch of kids!! Poor grammar, endless words that people cant seem to spell out… like PPL, cursing. I just felt like I was in teeny-bopper land and no one could form an intelligent sentence. Not saying my spelling and grammar are perfect, but it was like reading text messages all the time. Mostly it was just the cursing or stupid questions that were repeated OVER AND OVER…. A/S/L??
skigod377 wrote:mimitrek wrote:I would think that only forum members could chat, just like only forum members can make posts.
I’ve never used a chat room before. What kind of problems have you seen in the past?Its like a bunch of kids!! Poor grammar, endless words that people cant seem to spell out… like PPL, cursing. I just felt like I was in teeny-bopper land and no one could form an intelligent sentence. Not saying my spelling and grammar are perfect, but it was like reading text messages all the time. Mostly it was just the cursing or stupid questions that were repeated OVER AND OVER…. A/S/L??
Oh no…I was talking about one that only members could use. Gosh I would not want a random open chat either! Members here only.Ski – I’m in about six chat rooms right now, I hang out on IRC a lot (which I could easily set up a chat room just for Windstone members on, if anybody really wants me to do it, and walk you all through getting into it,) and nobody talks like that in any of the rooms I’m at. You just have to have the right kind of group. Big huge public chats are terrible, because they’re mostly full of idiots, but private chats are a totally different matter.
In fact it takes less than a minute to set up one, so what the heck, I just did! I’ll maintain it, doesn’t cost me anything, and it’s not too hard to use. The program is very simple, it’ll run on any computer, and isn’t too hard to use, I don’t think. You just have to learn about three commands.
Here’s how you get in:
1. Go to http://www.mirc.com (there are other irc clients, but that’s the one I use, so that’s the one I can walk you through.)
2. On the left hand side of the page, click the “download mIRC” link.
3. Choose one of the download servers, and get a copy.
4. Install it. This should be quite easy, let me know if you have any troubles.
5. Start it up.
6. The first thing you’ll see is a pop up asking you to pay for it. IRC is freeware, but they do ask for donations. You do not need to pay, and nothing happens if you don’t. Just wait about ten seconds, and you can close that window.
7. The second thing you’ll see is another pop up asking for your email and other information. Go ahead and fill that out. You don’t need to enter real info if you don’t want to. Choose a chat nickname and enter that. Make sure that “invisible” is NOT checked. We’d like to see you! “New server window” should be checked, however. Once your chat nickname is entered, click “ok”
8. Now you should see a big white box, with a small box below it. The small box is where you can type. Right now you’re not connected to anything though, so that’s the next step. Type “/server irc.nightstar.net 6666” into that box and hit enter. It should start connecting you. This may take just a minute or so, but once you’re connected, it’s going to load a TON of text into the window above. You can ignore most of it, it’s not important really. If it says “Welcome to the nightstart network, yourname” you’re in!
9. Join the channel. You can enter “#Windstone” in the channel pop up it gives you, or you can type “/join #Windstone” into the bar. You should get a new window popping up, that’s the chat room. I’ll be there, just look for my nick on the righthand side.
I know that’s a lot of steps, but once you’ve done it once, it saves everything, and you don’t have to do it all again. For example, next time you open the program, you can click the “connect” icon, rather than having to type in “/server irc.nightstar.net” and it will connect you to the server you last used. You can even save #Windstone in your favorites, and automatically join it as soon as you connect.
I’m going to host this as an unofficial chat room. If an official one turns up, I’ll shut mine down so I don’t compete, but until then, I figured there might as well be somewhere, for those of us who really want to chat!
P.S. It’s a private channel, so nobody who hasn’t got these instructions with the chan name can see it to join it. Also, when you join, say something in the chan! Otherwise I might not notice you’ve come in, I’m not always actually watching empty chanenls.
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