Anyone has the idea of adding a new features. Have a live 24 hours chat room, so members of daniweb can chat with other members around the world anytime.
royng -3 Posting Pro
royng -3 Posting Pro
Do you vote for a yes or no jonsca. Please vote in the poll, then i will know who are interested in having a chat room set up of course, i have to ask dani first.
Ok thanks, i have an it. But the IRC does not have a lot of people and when i type a message no one reply
jonsca 1,059 Quantitative Phrenologist Team Colleague Featured Poster
That's what I'm saying, there already is an IRC channel for the site. See what they say, I don't speak for anybody, but it would probably be redundant to have two (since the IRC is unfortunately underused anyway).
royng -3 Posting Pro
But what i want is the chat room to be fun. You can talk to another person anywhere, anytime any topic. It can be games or homeworks or music. You get it, The IRC you post is only for support forums and technical difficulties
crunchie 990 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Already a chat room available and has been for a long time.
royng -3 Posting Pro
Where? I did not know that
~s.o.s~ 2,560 Failure as a human Team Colleague Featured Poster
You get it, The IRC you post is only for support forums and technical difficulties
You've got it wrong; IRC is not a place to ask support questions, it's a chillout zone/place. Click on the link jonsca has posted in this thread and just hang out there. You don't need to answer / ask questions. Just *relaaax*. :-)
jonsca 1,059 Quantitative Phrenologist Team Colleague Featured Poster
Already a chat room available and has been for a long time.
He's talking about the IRC. You can chat about anything there, it's not just for tech support.
If you're asking about something that you can talk head to head with someone, you could put your Yahoo/MSN/yada in your profile (with the control panel) so people can see it. I would speculate that something like that on any site would take up a lot of server overhead.
royng -3 Posting Pro
But there are hardly anyone there
Narue 5,707 Bad Cop Team Colleague
But there are hardly anyone there
If nobody hangs out there because nobody is there, nobody will continue to be there. :icon_rolleyes: Why don't you add yourself to the number of people on IRC and then the count goes up by one. Get others to do the same and the number of people will grow. I'd like to think this is obvious, but apparently only a handful really understand (the ones who already visit #daniweb).
royng -3 Posting Pro
That is what i have been trying to do. Either some are too lazy to do or they don't bother.Maybe for each thread, at the bottom it will say how many current active users are viewing this thread. if there are more than two. We can add a function that allow both the users who are viewing the same thread to chat with each other
jonsca 1,059 Quantitative Phrenologist Team Colleague Featured Poster
They can already "chat" via PM. I think your ideas have some merit, but it takes a lot of programming effort to add in that kind of functionality. The increased server load that would occur would probably be significant.
royng -3 Posting Pro
Ok, thanks. But how do you chat in PM. Please enlighten me on that. Thanks jonsca
jonsca 1,059 Quantitative Phrenologist Team Colleague Featured Poster
To get your message, go to the upper right hand corner of the screen, next to where it says your name, and click on "Private Messages". To send one, go into someone's profile (clicking on their username in a post), at the lower right hand of that screen it says "Send a private message to <username>" It's not like AIM, but you can get going back and forth pretty quickly.
royng -3 Posting Pro
Thanks Josca. Do you think i should mark this thread as solved or get more response from other posters to see whether they want a chat room
crunchie 990 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Thanks Josca. Do you think i should mark this thread as solved or get more response from other posters to see whether they want a chat room
Hello.....there IS a chat room as already stated several times :icon_rolleyes:
royng -3 Posting Pro
Ok, thabks crunchie. i explorering th chat room now.
jonsca 1,059 Quantitative Phrenologist Team Colleague Featured Poster
Thanks Josca. Do you think i should mark this thread as solved or get more response from other posters to see whether they want a chat room
That's totally up to you. If the matter is resolved, mark it as such, but there's no penalty to leaving it open a bit longer.
royng -3 Posting Pro
Ok, since you say it. i will leave the thread open for another two more days, hoping to get more response from other posters. Want to go to another thread call loch ness in geek lounge. It is also by me
crunchie 990 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
I see no point in leaving a poll open when the outcome does not matter.
royng -3 Posting Pro
Ok, so i will close the thread tomorrow on 21 march 2011
pseudorandom21 166 Practically a Posting Shark
IRC, (AKA "Multiplayer Notepad") isn't really "cool" or "hip" these days. I am kind of fond of the idea, but unless I have a browser-based IRC client, I will be reluctant to visit often. Just because I won't ever open the IRC client, not because I don't like the chat.
Would a browser-based IRC client take up too much resources? It may very well become the hippest thing sliced bread if implemented so it's easy to use, and integrated with the 'site.
Would a chatbox be too much to ask for? I hear Chatango has some good ones... They may provide it for free, but I don't know.
jonsca 1,059 Quantitative Phrenologist Team Colleague Featured Poster
Would a browser-based IRC client take up too much resources?
If you click the link I posted, it is a browser based client.
royng -3 Posting Pro
Cbox is a good chatbox and it is free
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