Rejected A chatroom on the forums page.

[Patches]

I feel like it would be a nice touch. I think there was one on cdr, but I didn't have an account on that service. The best old anime and flash game sites had chatroom on page and was nice to mingle with the community.

 

[Ume]

Yes!

 

[Yousef]

Guys remember to upvote suggestions you agree with, liking or commenting isn’t enough. :)

 

[JustLooking123]

I'm not exactly a fan of it...
Nevertheless, i think there are many ways to implement such a feature.
Maybe the easiest way is to have a Chat Thread, which is just an ordinary thread, but visible on every page like a panel?
But i hope there would be an option to disable it.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I'm not exactly a fan of it...

Yeah. I'm generally against things that would get in the way of posting.

That said, I won't be against its implementation, should it get approved.

 

[Yousef]

Yeah. I'm generally against things that would get in the way of posting.

That said, I won't be against its implementation, should it get approved.

It’s possible what Patches meant was something more akin to the status feature but anyone can comment on and it functions vaguely similar to a twitch chat

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

I'm not exactly a fan of it...

Same here but it's a nice idea.

 

[Patches]

It’s possible what Patches meant was something more akin to the status feature but anyone can comment on and it functions vaguely similar to a twitch chat

I do mean an actual chatroom. I don't feel alone in saying that a BBS forum and chatroom is much more preferrable to a discord server I cannot undo what is done, but options are nice. No skin off my back either way just a thought. I know it can be done with XenForo because I have seen it in practice.

 

[JustLooking123]

Is it different from the Direct Message feature?
It would be great if you could mention an example site.

 

[Patches]

Is it different from the Direct Message feature?
It would be great if you could mention an example site.

Gr8 b8, but sure I'll bite I have doctored this image to not detract from what we have here, besides my blocking of usernames, links, names, display pics, etc I ripped this from another active XenForo forum. It nicely includes that it can require a number of posts to be made before users can use it which would help weed out any trouble that could come from having it.

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

It would kill the forums. Plain and simple.
People just stops browsing and making threads they just ask everything there, and those logs get eventually wiped, everything becomes ephemeral which is everything the forum is not meant to be.
I've seen it before. it's much harder to moderate cos you have to be there 24/7, and it's also very heavy on server resources when you have many users, tons of ajax calls hitting the database can't be cached if it's real time. I know this has likes but I wouldn't do it.
I know some people don't like it but a https://retrogametalk.com/discord is the only thing I can offer for chatting purposes.

/sorry