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Considered an instant chat box for the forums?

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A site I use called Syndicate Gaming Network...basically a gaming forum.....has a box that stays at the top of all pages that is a instant chat box..sorta like a twitter box. You post a line or two and it says who and when it was posted. Like I posted to say hi then went to the forum to make a post on soemthing. I then see someone 2 min later post a howdy. Others are from 50 min ago and such and it scrolls up as it gets older.

Thought it would be something to consider.
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Re: Considered an instant chat box for the forums?

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See the "shoutbox" at http://thesgn.com/board/index.php.


Just my opinion, but it's not my cup of tea really. Takes up a lot of real estate at the top of every page and can lead to a lot of "hey, me too" spam. They're also under a year old with under ~6,000 posts in well under a thousand topics. I think to if we put such a thing up here, peoples' worlds would turn upside down.
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Re: Considered an instant chat box for the forums?

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I think mchat does a shoutbox kinda thing for phpbb3.. I could probably put it out on the forum listing page (vs on the top of every forum, that is a lot or annoying real estate).

Anyone else interested in testing this kind of thing out, or are we all too old for IRC like boxes on our forums?

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:)

I just discovered it is hotlinked too so I can click a post there and go to the forum post too.
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LawBeefaroni wrote:See the "shoutbox" at http://thesgn.com/board/index.php.


Just my opinion, but it's not my cup of tea really. Takes up a lot of real estate at the top of every page and can lead to a lot of "hey, me too" spam. They're also under a year old with under ~6,000 posts in well under a thousand topics. I think to if we put such a thing up here, peoples' worlds would turn upside down.
Amen.

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Re: Considered an instant chat box for the forums?

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I don't see any harm if users can turn it off or hide it...as I suspect 9/10 of us would do. :lol:
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i vote 'for' it. would bring some life here.
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hitbyambulance wrote:i vote 'for' it. would bring some life here.
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