I wish this place had a Chatroom

bootyfofree · Post by **bootyfofree** » October 12th, 2011, 12:58 pm

Dude, if this place had a chatroom. I could just get on and talk to whoever is online at the time. Cause work sucks. And I have some sweet free time on days like today.

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell · October 12th, 2011, 1:22 pm

i wish this place had a hot tub. cuz, y'know...hot tub!

acrouch · Post by **acrouch** » October 12th, 2011, 2:31 pm

Holy shit that is an amazing (and probably productivity-killing) idea. How hard would it be to actually pull that off?

Tech people, what say you?

Tim Traini · Post by **Tim Traini** » October 12th, 2011, 3:14 pm

Oh it's easy as hell to make an IRC room, I hang out in one at work all day as it is (on SynIRC if you need a stable server). I'd have to remember the commands to set ops for other people as I probably wouldn't be in it outside of work.

Wishful thinking someone who's online all the time makes their computer the main bot/host for the channel, since IRC requires ridiculously little energy and power to run, it was created in the dialup era after all.

Pdyx · Post by **Pdyx** » October 12th, 2011, 3:40 pm

Yeah we just agree on an IRC name #AIC and a host and off we go.

acrouch · Post by **acrouch** » October 12th, 2011, 3:53 pm

Is there any way to actually make it part of this forum site though? A Wordpress chat add on or something like that? Where you can see who's on the forums and invite them to private chat or join a larger chat room with anyone who opts in, and every time you're on this forum site you can see who's in the chat room?

sara farr · Post by **sara farr** » October 12th, 2011, 4:11 pm

It's called Facebook.

Marc Majcher · Post by **Marc Majcher** » October 12th, 2011, 4:33 pm

sara farr wrote:It's called Facebook.

Yeah, I was gonna say. Make an AIC Forum group or whatever, everyone joins, and boom, group chat. Easy.

bootyfofree · Post by **bootyfofree** » October 12th, 2011, 4:43 pm

Haha, Corporate is all over blocking facebook. But whats sweet is the AIC forum is all up for grabs!

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell · October 12th, 2011, 4:49 pm

bootyfofree wrote:Haha, Corporate is all over blocking facebook. But whats sweet is the AIC forum is all up for grabs!

amen.

hujhax · Post by **hujhax** » October 12th, 2011, 4:54 pm

I guess the "Chat" link at the top of the page doesn't go to anything functional any more....

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Post by **bradisntclever** » October 12th, 2011, 7:33 pm

There are definite phpBB add-ons that give some chat room functionality. If Roy has backend access, maybe he can play around with a few?