chat room

Post by **Uncle Jesse** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:29 am

I've been thinking about reviving it lately, any thoughts?

I could set up ircd on the unix side or try something else, it's been a few years since I checked out what's available.

Jetzon · Post by **Jetzon** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:37 am

Put me down for a Yes vote for a chat room uncle Jesse

mikeac · Post by **mikeac** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:44 pm

Yeah I think I'd be into that, it's be kinda neat.

As-Ol-Joe · Post by **As-Ol-Joe** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:56 pm

Post by **theholymackerel** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:09 pm

I think so too UJ.

We tried it before, but there wern't enough folks. The site is alot bigger now. On weekdays at lunch in North America we often have WAY more than a hundred folks lookin' at the site. I think there are enough folks now to have a chat room.

My only worry is folks won't be tight-lipped enough. A chat room could lead to folks findin' out who and where folks are and causin' trouble.

goose eye · Post by **goose eye** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:38 pm

no
you gota look after some of these folks cause they caint look after themselfs. loose lips

Jetzon · Post by **Jetzon** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:44 pm

theholymackerel

That is a Very good point Mac. Ive also read thats how people crash sites?
Might be A Lot more work for all the Mods also.

Post by **HookLine** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:50 pm

Could work. But Goose has a good point. Chat rooms tend to be a lot less restrained and considered than a forum format like this.

new_moonshiner · Post by **new_moonshiner** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:55 pm

maybe it could be set up only to be active when a mod was logged in ?

gs_moonshine · Post by **gs_moonshine** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:58 pm

you could always just do a test chat room on yahoo or something like that. I think I would be interested if something was set up.

Gimp · Post by **Gimp** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:58 pm

A chat room would be a great idea.

I'm not a fan of IRC, but I have seen some forums chat modules that you can use.

just not sure on the specific ones.

19Kilo · Post by **19Kilo** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:10 pm

there is a PHBB chat module on the PHBB site. I use it it on a board I have...works well. Users must be registered and logged into the site. Anyone with Admin or Mod status on the boards has same staus in the chat module.

Post by **Uncle Jesse** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:04 pm

I'll look into it. The fun part of ircd was having the Shaney bot in there

new_moonshiner · Post by **new_moonshiner** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:07 pm

Uncle Jesse wrote:I'll look into it. The fun part of ircd was having the Shaney bot in there

LOL I think Tater told me the bot story once ...lol

Post by **Uncle Jesse** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:10 pm

It was the Mark V. Shaney program put into a bot. It would remember what people said and then try to formulate sentences based on what it had learned.

new_moonshiner · Post by **new_moonshiner** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:13 pm

Yeah they are fun..

Gimp · Post by **Gimp** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:22 pm

sounds like it was quite fun

Post by **Tater** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:18 pm

I was new to forums back then and at first didn't know it was a bot.I cussed that damn thing thinking it was somebody.

new_moonshiner · Post by **new_moonshiner** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:16 am

lol that was what i was thinking ya was telling me Tater... I have done the same once upon a time...

LeftLaneCruiser · Post by **LeftLaneCruiser** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:28 pm

tater wrote:I was new to forums back then and at first didn't know it was a bot.I cussed that damn thing thinking it was somebody.

Yup, I too had that experience with that bot..

In retrospect it is funnier now than it was at that moment. LOL

But a chatroom, behind a login-procedure, looks nice to me.

KJH

Post by **blanikdog** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:33 pm

Good idea, but what goose said.

blanik

zymos · Post by **zymos** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:47 pm

Please do Jesse- I think a chat would be great!

Just my opinion, but there are chat rooms for WAY more illegal things than what we talk about here, and they don't lead to a bunch of people getting arrested.

SK · Post by SK » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:51 am

Just putting in my vote for a chat, they are great for getting instantaneous answers while mashing or running the still.

pintoshine · Post by **pintoshine** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:11 am

The only thing I have against chat room and especially IRD is that there is usually no record of conversations unless you have local login turned on. The artifacts, that can be retrieved through "SEARCH" are what make the forum useful. I wish phpBB had as good a search feature as google's algorithm.

Post by **Uncle Jesse** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:18 pm

version 3 of phpbb has a newly revamped search feature. I'm not saying it's better, but I'm saying it's different. I haven't given it a try yet.

Post by **Uncle Jesse** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:00 am

I'm working on this. I have installed the chat as instructed but I think I need to set up the Java Development Kit server side, so I'll do that soon.

MountedGoat · Post by **MountedGoat** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:58 am

My two cents. I like instant, I don't like loose lips. I think that if you want instant then just find out who is online at the moment and send them a PM. Chat would be awesome fun though when you can't find an answer in the forum. Just two cents from a new fella

punkin · Post by **punkin** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:25 pm

I like forums.
I read pretty much every post on here (cept the argument on glycerine and liquers

) and don't like the idea of the things being typed being lost.
I like the idea of being able to consider (even though i don't do it enough) what you're saying before hitting reply, and i like being able to modify or edit my comments.

I doubt i'd use it.

CoopsOz · Post by **CoopsOz** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:26 pm

On the same note, if you post after a few too many sherberts.....it's always there. There are few things that I have said that I would like to take back

punkin · Post by **punkin** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:31 pm

The edit buttons always there for that mate. I prefer to add another post with retraction/apology and leave the one i've fucked up in, but sometimes you just gotta take things down

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