Chat room

[bibblebub]

How about including a chat room in CB separate from the usual forum? You could also include side rooms within it to enable pairs of users to have a private chat. The only ones I've used are in ICQ and I was thinking of something along those lines.

BUT rather than let it be open to everybody including trolls have users request permission from the Ed to access to it (just a one-off request so that it is available to a user thereafter); that way Ed could have a check to see whether the user is a bona fide contributor to AB before granting access to the feature. Think of it as a bonus for regular site visitors.

[sara3]

your avatar scares me.

[EvianBaby]

That would sort of defeat the main objective of the site. I think it's considered an treat that we have chatterbank considering it's supposed to be a Q&A site.

[fliptheswitch]

Isn't that was the AB Facebook group is for?

P.S your avatar scares me, too.

[bibblebub]

not everyone uses Facebook and since CB is mostly used in a conversational way a chat room would speed that up for people

[bibblebub]

and I don't see how it would defeat the objective of the site being Q&A because surely CB has already done that

[AB Editor]

In the long run we'd like to have answers appear in pseudo-real time - so as you're typing yours you can see new answers appear (maybe every few seconds it would reload in-page with more answers.

[B00]

Did you post that reply on the wrong thread Ed? Ooooo that rhymed!

[albaqwerty]

I like that plan Ed.

[EvianBaby]

That's why I said that it was like a treat to have CB, because it's not really a chat site.

Also, if you were planning on keeping the chat function private it would just start a petty 'who's saying what behind who's backs' sort of thing and if were to be for public viewing then it's not really any different from CB.

Plus, I want my mobile site before Ed makes anything else! ;)

[China Doll]

It would be used mainly to b!tch about other users...no point. It's a chat site and if you want to contact someone individually then you can probably bung up a fake email account before it gets removed.

[AB Editor]

"Plus, I want my mobile site before Ed makes anything else! ;)"

We've got some other "bits" to take care of before all that, sorry!

[B00]

Bits? I want bits!

[EvianBaby]

*throws self on floor and has strop*

[annadomino]

I love the idea of a chat room, but not the little 'rooms for two', it's so easy to miss bits as they roll over so quickly.

[joko]

this is a Q&A site first and foremost...the net is brimming over with chat rooms - why try to add yet another by changing the primary function of this one?

CB was added under duress... it was a "necessary evil" in order to control the chatter taking over other topics... it was never what the site was about.

[sunny-dave]

I like cake :)

[daffy654]

I like turtles. :)

[boxtops]

I don't want a separate facility, thank you.

[Ankou]

bed room

how about a little room where the older abers can go and take a nap?