Stella Day wrote:Steve/Andy! Can you see the need for a chatroom here?
You are pretty much the only person who asks for it Stella.
In this day and age of Facebook, Skype, ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSN and GTALK there are many ways that you guys can chat to each other in real time.
Whatever we can offer would just be a pale imitation.
I've yet to find a software solution that we could use on this site that is stable enough so that I am not bombarded 24 hours a day with messages from disgruntled chatters complaining that the chat room has crashed.
The last time we had a live chat event with Steve I was monitoring the system every second and re-launching it every few minutes. That's just not sustainable for a permanent chat room.
I do need sleep every now and then.
We have no issue with the idea of a chat room, we just don't want to do it unless it actually works.
Don't forget that as a registered user you have a Forum Profile (see the 'My Profle' button above?) in which you can share your chatting credentials.
Andy