Live Chat

[Northern Giant UK]

Seeing as theres a new website, has anyone given any thought to a live chat room?

Now I'm not suggesting actual speech (as with the number of members here would make that a chaotic experience but instead maybe a live text chat mite be in order.

Just a thought.

Kev

 

[Jodie]

Sounds interesting - probably chaotic though! I understand a few people chat via some
MSN type messenger thingy. Not me though I've only ever used Pirch or mIRC for real-
time chats in my geekier past ;-)

 

[Bushcraft4life]

MSN messenger is wicked . I am on it right now . I reckon it would be kinda cool if we had an msn type chat thing set up. That way its instant and people could have proper chats. Then again it could become chaos with the number of people on the website. Good idea though. Mods got any ideas :thinkerg:

 

[bent-stick]

I'm dai_sin@hotmail.com on msn. It's sort of banned at work but we actually use it quite a lot when doing projects that are split with out Antrim Office. Fun and Useful...

 

[Northern Giant UK]

Well if theres enough interest and its ok with BCUK's moderators then I'd look into it, in fact i already have one idea but i'd have to check it out first.

Kev

 

[Bushcraft4life]

Well if theres enough interest and its ok with BCUK's moderators then I'd look into it, in fact i already have one idea but i'd have to check it out first.

Kev

Care to elaborate on this little idea of yours

 

[Northern Giant UK]

Care to elaborate on this little idea of yours

Well I used to use a program called Filetopia a couple of years ago and I think it mite just fit the bill.

It was big on security, didn't cost anything and you can have permenent private rooms (password protected) for BCUK members.

It would have to be ok with the mods etc tho.

Kev

 

[Bushcraft4life]

Well I used to use a program called Filetopia a couple of years ago and I think it mite just fit the bill.

It was big on security, didn't cost anything and you can have permenent private rooms (password protected) for BCUK members.

It would have to be ok with the mods etc tho.

Kev

I just looked it up. Looks like it could fit right in here on BCUK. But with the upsides their could be a lot of downsides. I would really like to here the mods or Tony's thoughts on this. You certainly done your homework Kev :You_Rock_

 

[British Red]

There was a chat room in the distant past guys. It was closed due to some inappropriate discussions I believe

Red

 

[Tadpole]

I love the idea of online chat, I do it all the time, sadly I work nights, so most of you’s lot will be warm and toasty in your bags when I’m at work. My suggestion is a site called. Meebo
It is based on-line so no pesky programmes to install, it is free, always a big plus. But best of all it allows you to see all of your buddies from AOL Yahoo MSN googlemail all in the same screen, there are also things called rooms that allow more than one person to chat. I’ve been using it for months and months, and it’s stable, and intuitive. It is possible to get AOL accounts without signing up to AOL.
Have a look see
http://wwwm.meebo.com/
Check out their meebo widgets put them in your websites and blogs

Not part of meebo other than a satisfied customer

 

[oldsoldier]

Why not simplt set up a room in mIRC?

 

[Tadpole]

Why not simplt set up a room in mIRC?

you have to download software to run it, and not all of us can or are willing to do it at our place of work

 

[Northern Giant UK]

you have to download software to run it, and not all of us can or are willing to do it at our place of work

Good point, this puts Filetopia and the IRC out of the question.
Pity.

Kev

 

[oldsoldier]

Ah yes, forgbot about that. Been a while since I've used it.

 

[pag_3833]

you have to download software to run it, and not all of us can or are willing to do it at our place of work

you dont have to download software if you dont want too, the mods and admins would probably have to run the application so they could have control of the rooms but these days you can setup java chatrooms for websites and it just connects to irc as a guest for each member and you change your name when you're in. Its quite good that way as I dont have IRC anymore but i still pop into some old chatrooms i used to use and say hello from time to time. i think that would work well.

(not easy to setup though, as ive set many of these up on various networks)

 

[giancarlo]

We did used to have a IRC room setup on Quakenet a few years ago.
It was good, but it was hard to moderate and got taken over a few times so we phased it out.

We did try again when we changed some of the server software (adding the games etc), but that got a bit out of hand too.

It may make a come back one day i guess though.

 

[Lodian]

I own a site wtih a chat room u up for using that?