Has this been brought up before? Is there any way to get one on the site? It would be even more fun to waste time at work chatting in real time!

Yes. We have talked about getting a chatroom before. I would still be open to the idea, but here are some other opinions on the subject.

FeaturesChat (May 5, 2002)

You could always just add Features messageboard members to your AOL IM and talk to them that way. I already talk to a few messageboard members on there. They even have a section named, "Features Fans". Yeah, I'm a loser. I know.

What I love about that post, Stephanie, is that it also illustrates how old this overemo / sos conflict really is...

For my money, a chatroom would be a terrible waste.

Might be just me though.

Will

Ok, well, since they don't have enough bandwidth anyway (according to the thread from May), I guess it's a moot point.

It still would have been fun though, and it would be a good place for people to fight instead of on the board...lol

~pbg

(Edited by poohbear's girl at 2:10 pm on Jan. 18, 2003)

You know I don't know exactly how much bandwidth it would take up. We actually do have quite a large amount of it to use but we're about to embark in some things here that'll use more and more of it. The idea of a chatroom has never really taken off and I'll propose it again, but most likely you'll have better success setting up something on your own like with Yahoo or doing the AIM idea.

There you go with those carrots again, Brian...

Will

Like Stephanie, I added the top 20 message board members to my buddy list in AIM. That gives me some pseudo-chat abilities. Someone could also set up a channel on IRC or something like that if they were serious about this chat stuff.