Andrew (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2002 10:56 am Also, can you program in some sort of protection so that the name of "Andrew" can be used only by me, and not some imposter trying to stir things up? Thank you.

I believe that they will eventually have the feature put in down the road. I believe the plans are to hook the ID up with the Message Board ID & Password. I have the same concerns especially after dealing with some of the Losers that come on the old system.

Andrew (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2002 10:56 am Also, do we really need five chat rooms? I think the scheduled chat room is redundent, I've never seen any trafic in penectomy or master/slave rooms, and wonder if it would be simpler to have just two rooms, a general public chat room and a room for those who want private chats.

Well I do think the Different rooms will end up being used more, now that everyone has to be in a room. The 5 rooms are just suggested one to make it easier to discuss the different topics that people have.

With the old system everyone did private chats. Now private chats are still possible, but you are also in a room. If there are lots of people on different rooms help as multiple conversations are hard to follow.

Andrew (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2002 10:56 am Oh, when do you plan to shut down the old chat room?

I don't think there is any date set yet for stopping the old chat, as Talula is still working on

luvpain (imported) wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2002 12:24 am making improvements to the new chat.

Also as Bboy has mentioned the new chat is in the testing phase. It is possible that it might not be used either.

I hope this helps.

Mac (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2002 11:40 am The private chat procedure sounds just complicated enough to properly limit the use of private chats. However, there has not been enough people to try it when I have been in the room. I too prefer open chats.

Yes the new chat is a little more complicated than the old chat. However, Talula is busy trying to enhance the interface to make it more friendly so people can easily use. It does take time to make changes, and figure how to implement changes and improvements. Just be patient and see what new features are added in the coming weeks. Try it out and get used to the new design, and add feedback here. Make suggestions on how things could be improved, and what features you like.

Mac (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2002 11:40 am I have also noticed the time delay between posting a message and seeing it. Sometimes think that I have been disconnected.

Well I think part of the trouble is with AOL. The other part is due to Bandwidth limitations on the TEST Server. I have noticed a slight delay sometimes, but not all the time. I think the longest delay was maybe 2 seconds, but usually it pops up within a second for me.

Mac (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2002 11:40 am I agree with Andrew's suggestion of limiting the chat forum to two rooms as more people will lead to better conversations.

I disagree. When there are only a few people on 1 or 2 rooms are good, but once you get over 10 people in a room things do tend to get a little crazy at times. Also NOT everyone is interested in "Master/Slave", "Penectomies", etc. so a room dedicated to those interest are good.

Talula

What happened to the new chat room? Please update us on the status.

You are entirely correct Mac. I'm sorry that I have kept people out of the loop. Here is what is going on.

We are loading up a new chat server to test.

The old test chat server, the one with the pictures started acting very erratic. For some reason it started pinging a site on the internet about 5 times a second and I couldn't get it to stop. Thus it was causing some terribly lag times. Also there were several features that people wanted that were going to take time to program in.

Bboy and I decided to give a full-blown IRC server a try which took about 2 days to configure before it would run. We got the various services and a webbot up at the same time. Unfortunatly the webbot was shaky at best so we dropped that idea.

Now we have dropped the idea of a windows based server and have gone to linux. I loaded in a "dalnet" based IRC server and it is running. Next I need to get the services (nickserv and stuff) going. Then it is testing time once more.

It shouldn't be much more that another couple of days.

Thanks for the patience.

talula

Talula,

Thank you for the update. I will be waiting for further information.

Things are progressing very well on the new test chat room. Almost too well. I hope to have it accessable to everyone by tonight.

talula

I tried the new chat server and all I got was "Furcadia Radio"

Is this what I should get??

Actually the new link is http://www.eunuch.org/chat or you can use an IRC program like mIRC and set the server to darkstar1.tzo.com

I am unable to get anything. I clicked on the link http://darkstar1.tzo.com and all I got was a listing of some music downloads.

I was unable to get into the previous chat room either..

Krysta

This is a 4 yr old thread which I will now close.