There is a chat, you know...

With the loss of profile posts and the inconvenience of PMs, many people say it's too hard to just talk to multiple people quickly without starting a thread. There is a chat, though. It's between "wiki" and "What's new?" If you have a question or something you would have put as a status update, just post it there. It may seem slow now, but that's because not many people use it. Go use it.

 

Do you want to borrow my finger?

 

If chat link would look like this, it might help, but it probably is kinda hard to make happen if software does not support it.

 

Didn't know it still worked tbh, it's hardly been mentioned anywhere on the site. Kind of like the homepage.

 

Well it would have been fun to try it out you know!

 

just did

 

Also I remember we had chat module on forum I moderated really long time ago, must be 10 years ago, not sure if such still exist? It floated next to forum on right and you could enlarge it, it was addon for forum software if I remember correctly, but I have trouble remembering yesterday, things 10 years ago are hit and miss most of the time:

 

Is there anyway to avoid having your IP/network information displayed to everyone when you join?

 

No. Because IRC.

 

This forum hasn't been around for 10 years, if you're talking about RoR then maybe.

 

No, what I meant by we was we admins who did run forum that had nothing to do with beams of any kind, not even games. Probably none here has anything to do with that board and it has been now dead for a long time.

It was JS based chat thing and quite handy though, also there was no IP addresses visible as it was just applet on forum page, you just chose name and that was it, of course these days security must be much tighter.

 

This is why I don’t use the chat. Heck, copy and paste that into google and you know where I live within two mile accuracy. I’ve tried. Too creepy for me.

 

(Okay, I know this is offtopic, but you just rickrolled me. stupidity.mp3)

 

It’s what I do.

 

This is something like chat we had, shoutbox rings the bell, not sure if such would be more welcomed as I don't think this broadcasts user's ip:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/taigachat-ajax-shoutbox.115/

 

I know there is a chat, but barely anyone uses it.

 

It would be nice if it was actually used instead of sitting idle.

 

Its used quite a lot actually, more than I thought it was