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Post by FireAngel73 on Aug 6, 2006 13:26:17 GMT -5
on another RPG proboards site I'm on they have a chat box for the people to talk to each other OOC while they're posting, it's at the top of the site and shows up at the top of every thread.
I was wondering if we could have it on here?
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Post by Rotiart on Aug 6, 2006 13:37:16 GMT -5
isnt that just like PMing?
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Post by Protégé (Gone) on Aug 6, 2006 13:40:30 GMT -5
A chatbox is public though, not private. Also, its automatically refreshing, so when a new message is posted, the message appears automatically. This, however, means a constant connection, which could cause lag on slower computers.
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Post by Mira Nightingale on Aug 6, 2006 15:45:49 GMT -5
I think chat boxes take away from a good site. They just look ugly and cause slow connections to be evern slower. I just got rid of my dial up a few weeks ago, and oh boy do big images and chats slow things down. Anyways, if you want to talk OOC, post in the OOC thread and talk with someone, or use PMs. That's my opinion.
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Post by Delia Ellatar on Aug 6, 2006 15:48:09 GMT -5
Yeah, as someone with a dial-up connection, I definitely don't like the idea of a chat box. My computer is soooo slow as it is, and it's hard enough when I have to load a page with a lot of pictures, let alone some uber chat box thinger.
Boy am I eloquent. Ha!
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Post by Ariadne on Aug 6, 2006 17:01:21 GMT -5
Im suggesting to have a chatroom..in other websites they have a chatroom where everyone can go to..its not like a chat box its a chat room
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Post by FireAngel73 on Aug 6, 2006 17:14:41 GMT -5
oh, where you can click a button and it brings up a chat room?
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Post by Ariadne on Aug 6, 2006 17:42:09 GMT -5
yeah!
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Post by Protégé (Gone) on Aug 6, 2006 18:04:37 GMT -5
At a different site, I remember there was a MSN chatroom made, but it never really caught on. Every time I checked it there was pretty much no one on it, and everyone just kept in the OOC board and PMs.
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Post by Ariadne on Aug 6, 2006 18:12:02 GMT -5
weird..In another site im in we message ourselves to get on when many members are on so we know that were all gonne be on at the same time.
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Post by Paine Edelias on Aug 6, 2006 18:13:56 GMT -5
well all the sites i been on have a cbox to talk in and i have it on my harry potter site as well
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Post by Protégé (Gone) on Aug 6, 2006 18:15:31 GMT -5
Well, aside from my worry that people won't be on it, I also worry that people may spend too much time on it. At many sites I go to, the OOC board has more posts than any other board, so what would happen with a chatroom? I'd be worried about people being more concerned with talking OOC than posting, and then things get inactive and ect.
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Post by Paine Edelias on Aug 6, 2006 18:16:29 GMT -5
yeha i know i think the ooc posting board probrably be used more but we don't know cboxs are used alot if people know how to use them
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Post by Ariadne on Aug 6, 2006 18:33:09 GMT -5
It quite simple to use a chatbox. Usually chat boxes are used to inform on new-updates and such.
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Post by Protégé (Gone) on Aug 6, 2006 18:34:11 GMT -5
We can post an announcement on the forum also. The only difference between a forum and a chatroom is that things on a forum are divided up into organized sections, and a forum isn't self updating.
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