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Post by penfold on Jun 25, 2008 8:39:30 GMT
Pro-boards recently upgraded the forum software, it appears to have been a success and no major issues have been reported with the release. One of the new features that was enabled with the new platform is a Chat Room, safe in the knowledge the release is stable the Chat Room has been enabled on MFoL, and is now available to all members.
Please read the following quick guide to using the Chat Room.
How do I access Chat Room? You need to be logged into the forum to be able to access the Chat Room. At the top of the page, above the Google banner ad, there is a set of icons, the last of these is the Chat Room icon, clicking on this will take you into the Chat Room. When prompted enter the same username as you use on this forum and click the login button and start chatting.
As this is new there may be teething troubles please leave a post on this thread if you have any questions or comments.
Hope you enjoy using the new feature, and thank you for your continued support!
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Post by Yoki on Jul 30, 2008 0:33:52 GMT
Had a look but know one home ,o well will try again sometime .
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Post by leonardo on Jul 30, 2008 7:56:03 GMT
Had a look but know one home , This is usually my experience, as well.
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Post by huskerman on Jul 30, 2008 13:19:23 GMT
I've found on other sites that posting a thread (or replying to an already existing thread) that you are in the chat room works pretty well at getting people in.
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Post by leonardo on Jul 30, 2008 15:53:08 GMT
One thing I find with some chat rooms attached to forums is that discussions that takes place in them can sometimes spill over to an accompanying forum and onto an ongoing topic, which is fine until occasionally some involved are in the dark as to the odd inside jokes.
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Post by maat on Jul 30, 2008 22:50:19 GMT
Probably means we chat enough in the main section, especially in Leo's have a chat thread? Maybe we don't need this section.
Maat
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Post by imakegarb on Aug 13, 2008 5:54:03 GMT
It was gifted to us by the software. Turned up one day, uninvited and unannounced. It swallowed a couple of garden gnomes, gave Bro. Penfold a wedgie and then settled down in the hydrangea bushes We figured it wasn't going anywhere so we called it to the attention to the other Brothers who might make use of it. Or it of them
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FireMist
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Post by FireMist on Nov 14, 2008 15:11:28 GMT
It was gifted to us by the software. Turned up one day, uninvited and unannounced. It swallowed a couple of garden gnomes, gave Bro. Penfold a wedgie and then settled down in the hydrangea bushes We figured it wasn't going anywhere so we called it to the attention to the other Brothers who might make use of it. Or it of them Sounds like a good elf, pesky as they should be.
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Post by lauderdale on Nov 15, 2008 22:28:32 GMT
Not something I will ever use, I very strongly dislike Chat Rooms. So just think a Lauderdale Free Zone! ENJOY!
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FireMist
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Post by FireMist on Nov 16, 2008 4:49:15 GMT
Yea, I know what you mean...the guys in a muzzleloading club for which I take care of the website and message board want a chat room. I'm trying to talk them out of it.
Though most are in the midwest US, we are all over the world from Finland to NewZeland and would be on there at different times.
Yup forums like this work better for a world audience.
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Post by leonardo on Nov 16, 2008 14:24:02 GMT
Yea, I know what you mean...the guys in a muzzleloading club for which I take care of the website and message board want a chat room. I'm trying to talk them out of it. I hope you are successful. We once had such a chat room on my music forum that some members used instead the actual forum. This was fine for awhile but unfortunately it effected regular forum activity, no new threads, post etc... Also, some of those who frequented it became cliquish and this too had a diverse effect on what we wanted to achieve. But once the chat room was made "invisible" normal services soon resumed
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FireMist
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Post by FireMist on Nov 23, 2008 14:31:19 GMT
Hummm The same thing is happening with their (the muzzleloaders) old message board (freeware type service with adds etc) and the new one I put on their domain. There were 46 people register on the new message board with most participating...
The old school guys of which the 'prez' is one ordered it off...i'm in the process of moving it to one of my own domains..... They prefer the line line outline style of message board....there are only 5 people posting on the old board. Interesting.
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Post by leonardo on Nov 23, 2008 15:40:29 GMT
Yes, that can and (according to my experience) does happen. They - chat-rooms - are good in theory and do indeed work well in conjunction with some discussion boards but unfortunately not always.
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FireMist
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Post by FireMist on Nov 24, 2008 0:38:19 GMT
And not all discussion boards work for all....especially the linear ones...sigh oh well, one can only try.
I can't get onto theis 'chat room' at the top of the page. It's still giving me a page with all the advertismetnts like at the bottom of this one...with only a link to the chat software in the middle.
Goodnight all
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Mr_Chaos
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Post by Mr_Chaos on Mar 28, 2009 17:11:08 GMT
Crashed my FireFox. Maybe I'll try after a fresh restart or something. My computer sucks!
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Post by AndyF on Mar 29, 2009 2:41:09 GMT
On another masonic forum I frequent, they schedule a fortnightly chat in the chatroom. We make a bit of an event of it, and it works out well. Because its only fortnightly, it has no impact on the forum. If the chat software on this site works, you could schedule a fortnightly chat for different timezones. If its anounced and publicised elsewhere on the site (like this thread for example) it could end up well enough attended without impacting the forum.
Chatrooms and forums are two completely different genres of discussion. Its near on impossible to type something lengthy and submit it in time to still be relelvent in a chatroom. On the other hand, short responses and small talk can seem tedious on a forum.
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afterthought
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Post by afterthought on May 11, 2009 22:17:23 GMT
I wouldn't mind using it. There is something to be said about the exchange of ideas with no lag time.
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Post by mayheyde on Mar 15, 2010 7:35:31 GMT
Not something I will ever use, I very strongly dislike Chat Rooms. So just think a Lauderdale Free Zone! ENJOY! I think so !
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