Suggestion: Group Chat

[The Beatles]

Hello. I think a group chat would be a great addition to this site.

Im not sure if you can do this or not, but it would be cool to consider it!

 

[LG]

If you mean a "Chat Box" then I don't think we will add it. Our experience elsewhere proved that people spent more time chatting than posting about music and it became a social site more than a music site. We want to keep music the focus of our forum, if that is what you mean by "Group Chat".

 

[ladyislingering]

Maybe a weekly scheduled chat?

Or biweekly? That could incorporate the idea without it becoming a huge fixture.

 

[LG]

TB or you Lady can make a Usergroup and invite whoever you want to chat about whatever you want without us adding anything to the main board. I will say right now there is a snowball in hell we will add a chat box anytime soon. It literally destroyed the old place Magic and I used to moderate, people don't even talk about music at all, it's all about gossip and other personal stuff. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that, but we have PM's, Profile pages, there is Facebook, the possibilities/opportunities for social networking are already there, you just have to invite the people you want to talk to and take it from there.

 

[ladyislingering]

Oh, no. TB, you're on your own.

 

[Soot and Stars]

I agree with LG! Coming from the same forum as Magic and him I agree that the chatbox took away from the place. I generally don't come here for small talk. I enjoy conversation that is focused on something I want to either learn about or try to share something about. The last forum had way to many people hanging in the chat room while the music threads threads were dwindling!

 

[Magic]

I, personally, love chat. With that said, I also have to think about what is good/bad for the forum. I have added chat boxes to a forum and the end result wasn't positive for the forum. People would log in and just chat and the forum itself suffered.

I also belong to other forums with chat groups and chat boxes, and the same thing happens in those forums.......at one time we had 50 people online, and all but 2 were in the chat box.


What I can do is check with the Vbulletin program add-ons and look for an instant message add-on. Currently, our Private Messages will give you a pop up notice when you have a Private Message which doesn't actually allow you to communicate in realtime. An instant message add-on would allow a realtime conversation, very similar to yahoo, msn, etc. instant messengers. I wont promise this as an addition to the forum, but I will sure check it out and see if it is possible to add.

The visitor's messages is the closest thing we have to realtime communication, and to make that work you have to have two windows open. It is slower than instant messengers.

 

[Groovy Man]

OK...no group chat....

any chance of a group hug?

Magic....make it happen!!

 

[Magic]

group hug!!




Give me your address, Groovy and I will be sure to send some diva's over to hug you!

 

[Harkat]

you could just have a thread were people talk about random things ... =\