Can We Get A Chat Room?

[Korwyn]

Chat rooms can be a pain. I used to run one. It was fine for a while, then the kids found it. I didn't have the time to babysit it all the time.

As I see it there are two options. Make it for registered users only or have moderators around the clock.

Also free chat rooms seem to be hard to come by these days. But you never know. Maybe it could happen.

You know, if enough people really want a live, real-time chat room that would be available 24/7 - for those who deal with insomnia too and want to get on IRC, I could certainly put a bot in a password protected chat room that you could only get the password from others on this forum or that choose to share the password. That can help keep the l33t IRC kiddies away. Have to change the PW every few months, but it's workable.

[GFinDC]

You know, if enough people really want a live, real-time chat room that would be available 24/7 - for those who deal with insomnia too and want to get on IRC, I could certainly put a bot in a password protected chat room that you could only get the password from others on this forum or that choose to share the password. That can help keep the l33t IRC kiddies away. Have to change the PW every few months, but it's workable.

Facebook also has a chat feature of sorts. If you set up a group in Facebook you can IM all the users of that group, and they can reply back etc. If you use Facebook a lot, it can be anoying though. The dang chat window has a habit of popping up in the middle of the screen whenever someone posts a new message. Wether you want it to or not. It isn't supposed to do that but it is kind of buggy. Other times when it is working correctly it just makes a beep but doesn't pop up and black the screen by itself. It has problems about 50% of the time. OF course you need a FB account to use that feature.