Should HyeClub Forum have a Chat Room?

[Christina]

Re: Should HyeClub Forum have a Chat Room?

Leave the chat open again. For those who want to use it-great. For those who do not-great too, no one is
telling them or forcing someone to use chat. Having the option, the freedom to chose.

[hrai]

Re: Should HyeClub Forum have a Chat Room?

Leave the chat open again. For those who want to use it-great. For those who do not-great too, no one is
telling them or forcing someone to use chat. Having the option, the freedom to chose.

Not having chatted when it was open, I would still opt for re-opening the chatroom. As Christina says, use it if you want.

As an IT-illiterate, are there not other easier options for chat though?

I have noticed that the tumbleweed is blowing through the site. I'm as guilty as anyone, opening the site and scanning for anything interesting before logging in. And that means, quite often, not logging in. For sure, Summer should be quieter but was it busier last Winter/Spring? A lot of regular posters seem to have disappeared, maybe doing what I do............also,has anyone else noticed that in this post-crash world where many companies have down-sized, that people, still in work, are actually working more intensely? My "leisure" time has been hacked to pieces and as my son is now 11 and playing competitive sports it's a no-brainer where I spend my time.

[ara87]

Re: Should HyeClub Forum have a Chat Room?

But for what reason, even with the new chatroom, there were like at the most 8 people 2 chatted

Pepsi, you weren't always on, I've been on there when there were 2 people, and when there were 20 something. The point is though however, even if there's only ever 5 people in there at maximum, that's 5 users who are getting better acquainted with each-other and creating a reason for them to come back. There were times when some of us would even stay up the whole night together chatting. Also less and less people used the chat b/c there was quite a long stretch of time where it didn't work, where it could only be accessed late in the evening and even then it would still kick you off.

Sure a lot of us communicate through other means now, like chatting on skype or facebook, but when the chat was there we came to the site, and had to log into the forums, and there by leading us all to post things in there. But now that we don't stop by the site anymore to chat through it, the majority of the users on this site have stopped coming altogether.

And sure not all of us posted useful topics, but I'd still rather have 10 people posting in the ankap thread or on the jokes and humor board rather than have 2 users who only "intellectual" types of threads that "contribute," to the site b/c the fewer users there are the less amount there are who even read or respond to those posts.

It doesn't matter that there are 60 something "guests" right now either. They don't sign up, they don't post, they don't contribute to the site in any way, and as for helping the public find info, 95% of what's on here can be found through a simple google search. And even if those 60 guests are all "users" they didn't even take the time to log in, only 17 people logged in the last 24 hours and that's way down from where it was about a year and a half ago when the chat actually worked and there were people in there

[MrHyeSev]

Re: Should HyeClub Forum have a Chat Room?

To me chat/no chat doesn't make a difference & Nimda takes the final decision anyways.
He is barely online. So it might take a while if he puts the chat option back or not. But I must say I loved the old chat format where you could put those icons next to your name every time you sign on, very unique feature & when the format was like that then the Chat was packed.