User Chat Room for Project Avalon?

[herbivore]

a chat room would be a good solution for posting, but i personally find a lot of valuable information on forums, that would not be possible with a chat room since it is all real time and doesn't record.

[Shellie]

Chat room... bad idea.

People literally chit-chat in chat rooms and tend to say absolutely nothing. You can't search them well, and people get so hung up in the moment they don't stop to think what they are writing. On a forum you can change everything a million times before you post it, and then edit it if it sounds wrong.

Seriously, as sensitive as a lot of people are on this forum I can't imagine what would happen when people start to make their argument but have to keep hitting the Return button... all the while they're trying to state their knowledge or case and people are jumping down their necks because the Poster hadn't finished putting everything up yet.

[Mikill]

Good chat room location= http://www.toolband.com/chat/enhanced.html
There are 6 rooms total.Most of the idiots go into the first room.The rest are empty.It does go down on occasion though.

[TranceAm]

Originally Posted by herbivore

a chat room would be a good solution for posting, but i personally find a lot of valuable information on forums, that would not be possible with a chat room since it is all real time and doesn't record.

The Average Chat Client does record. You could post the log file's interesting part after some editing.

On a side note. I have been on irc.2012info.ca # Avalon for a day or so, and no one logged in beside [10:31] <cy_kotic> hey
So this might not be very useful.

[GaiaLove]

Originally Posted by TranceAm

On a side note. I have been on irc.2012info.ca # Avalon for a day or so, and no one logged in beside [10:31] <cy_kotic> hey
So this might not be very useful.

The network is new and is not populated as of yet, which would explain why it's so quite there at the moment. It would provide the Camelot/Avalon population with pretty much exclusivity. All channels would be related to the topics relevant to people here.

Originally Posted by John aka#404

Colin, please confirm my thoughts on this.

Everyone... as far as I know adding a new member chat area to the forum would cause a major slowdown of the forum.
This has been discussed since the onset of Avalon's creation and it is known that opening something like this up will do nothing but cause hosting server issues. If anybody has suggestions/experiences please provide to myself, Colin or Gareth.

As for the servers and bandwidth, i would pick up the tab for that. I own the ones running now

Originally Posted by Heretic

I have been wanting this since the day Avalon opened, and there was a thread started then too

I would like one that you can create your own private rooms etc so there can be one on one conversation or small groups discussing something without public interference or judgment

these things exist all over but the good ones cost money for hosting

IRC does have a learning curve to use and software is needed but if that is all there is...

Any user can register their nickname as well as there own channel (room) if so desired. channels can be hidden or public. IRC software is recommended for admin but the existing java based interface is easily used and accessed on the web.