Keep Chat Function?

[20withascooby]

what you think should it stay or should it go

[swifty1981]

stay

[dazzlers82]

definately stay once a few more people use as well it should get a bit better

[luke_clifton]

Keep

[dazzlers82]

here is the link http://forums.sidc.co.uk/chat/index.php?ac...Kent%20Scoobies

[craigy]

definatly stay

i used it quite offen but now dont really get time to for some reason

but having the chat thread is great to keep social and limits the amount of other threads getting rammend with chat if you no what i mean?

craigy

[dazzlers82]

definatly stay

i used it quite offen but now dont really get time to for some reason

but having the chat thread is great to keep social and limits the amount of other threads getting rammend with chat if you no what i mean?

craigy

we do craigy how is that little baby of yours mate

[Scooby Hoo?]

If it is going to help keeping chit chat off threads then it might be for the general good.

But for goodness sake enough with the text talk, it takes me ages to work out what your all saying. Be kind to an old man. 20withascooby the ABC icon at the top of the page is a spell check, I use it all the time as I'm dislexit myself, give it a go.

[20withascooby]

lol i will try jst 4 u haha

[dazzlers82]

that was not very tryin nath

[craigy]

we do craigy how is that little baby of yours mate

spot on mate he is a little gem

cheers

[dazzlers82]

nice one mate

have you injected him with subaru syrum yet lol

[20withascooby]

i am tyin 2 cut dwn on da text spk cz i knw people av trble readin it

[granby]

i am tyin 2 cut dwn on da text spk cz i knw people av trble readin it

WTF

[20withascooby]

cnt u undastnd tht granby lol

[granby]

i am tyin 2 cut dwn on da text spk cz i knw people av trble readin it

I am trying to cut down on the text speak because i know people have trouble reading it see it isn't that difficult to wright correctly

Edited February 6, 2008 by Granby

[spikey]

never knew there was even a chat room. lol

[andy]

Tell you what guys - you can keep the chatroom if 20withascooby uses English on these forums Text talk is against Forum guidelines and is bloody annoying

I'll be watching

[20withascooby]

thats not fair tho its just the way i tlk/type.lol

[andy]

thats not fair tho its just the way i tlk/type.lol

TBH, I was going to PM you about it, but couldn't be bothered. lol.

It IS against the Forum rules and there's really no excuse for it. You have a full keyboard in front of you and no message length restrictions like you have on a phone. Please TRY and use English on here. You'll find you get better responses if you do as a lot of folk just skip anything written in text-talk bollocks as they can't be bothered trying to decipher it

[ROAR]

TBH, I was going to PM you about it, but couldn't be bothered. lol.

It IS against the Forum rules and there's really no excuse for it. You have a full keyboard in front of you and no message length restrictions like you have on a phone. Please TRY and use English on here. You'll find you get better responses if you do as a lot of folk just skip anything written in text-talk bollocks as they can't be bothered trying to decipher it

too bloody right!!!!!

[wedmonds1]

I have had a few websites with forums. We always found that the chat site is great if you have alot of people on all the time but it does impact the amount of posts people make.

The great thing about the forum is that you can post and walk away. Check back 5 minutes later and you may have the answer. Check 30 minutes later and you might have 15 answers.

The chat function is great for people who are able to find the time to use it but it will impact the amount of posts and will only really be used by people that have the time.

I find that i never turn Microsoft Messenger on because I get loads of people trying to contact me on it and I am only wizzing on to check e-mails etc and then off.

If you use Microsoft Messenger the chances are you will have time to use a chat function. I dont think I could find the time and would prefer to post and check back.

The other bonus about the forum is that anything you post can be referenced by other members months and months after you originally asked a question or for advice. So I suppose the chat function would also dent the amount of knowledge and input that members give.

My 2p worth

[granby]

Some very good points Wayne, i'd rather post on the forum for the very reasons you pointed out but will use the chat room from time to time

[scoobytibs]

i never looked at it like that wedmonds well said i will be first to admit i may be wrong lol

[andy]

wedmonds does make some interesting points, but I'd like to repsond from a technical perspective.

Forum software was never designed as a "real-time" chat facility. It was designed so users could exchange views, advice, opinions etc, but not in real-time. Of course the internet has evolved and things have changed since the concept of Forums came about, but they still aren't really great for "real-time" chat. For starters they don't update automatically. You're constantly sat there pressing F5 to see if anyone has replied. This does place additional load on the web server. We're lucky here in that the SIDC web server is way more powerful than we need so we can handle folk doing that, but on other sites it may not be acceptable.

It's also not about the number of posts. Forums should be about quality, not quantity. That's why the live chat experiment was introduced - so folk could have their chat and banter in real time, but keep the forums for the more serious stuff. It also limits the size of the Forum database which is critical should we ever have to go through a site recovery if the server failed.

We've no intention of changing anything so you can feel free to carry on using Forums, chat or whatever. I'm just explaining things from my boring Admin side