Why Is the Cafe Chat Always Deserted? - Page 2

Lt Major Burns · #9 July 2nd, 2005, 12:03 PM

we aren't idiots... we're mac users

no, i think it is a good idea, but people just for some reason seem to treat it like a rabbi treats pork

Amie · #10 July 3rd, 2005, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

we aren't idiots... we're mac users

no, i think it is a good idea, but people just for some reason seem to treat it like a rabbi treats pork

Yep, I agree! Besides, it's very unsettling to enter a chat room and be all alone. LOL

Amie · #11 July 8th, 2005, 09:56 PM

People told me that the Live Chat room is mostly a nighttime thing. Well ... it's nighttime and I just came from there. And guess what? Yep--deserted again! What is this Live Chat--a totally unused feature of this board? Or maybe it's for people who are in "invisible mode" only.

nixgeek · #12 July 8th, 2005, 10:24 PM

I've been on there a bunch of times but alas, it's just been me. I was just curious as to why the mods here didn't choose to do this over IRC. It's much more supported than having to create a chat room using Flash. I can't even get on with some of my machines, and I don't want to use Windows. Linux on either x86 or PPC with firefox doesn't work. Flash just craps out on Linux/x86, and flash isn't even an option on Linux/ppc. I guess I could use Mac OS 9 on my StarMax, but then I wouldn't be able to use my multi-IM client (Gaim), so I just stick it out in LinuxPPC Land.

Would it be too much trouble to have an IRC channel for the chats?

**ScottW** · #13 July 8th, 2005, 10:47 PM

Oh, it doesn't matter. The chatroom could be <insert software, network or anything here> and it would be empty. Trust me.

We could call it "Quiet Place", the perfect place to get away too when your tired of everyone in your face.

Amie · #14 July 9th, 2005, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by nixgeek

I've been on there a bunch of times but alas, it's just been me. I was just curious as to why the mods here didn't choose to do this over IRC. It's much more supported than having to create a chat room using Flash. I can't even get on with some of my machines, and I don't want to use Windows. Linux on either x86 or PPC with firefox doesn't work. Flash just craps out on Linux/x86, and flash isn't even an option on Linux/ppc. I guess I could use Mac OS 9 on my StarMax, but then I wouldn't be able to use my multi-IM client (Gaim), so I just stick it out in LinuxPPC Land.

Would it be too much trouble to have an IRC channel for the chats?

What is IRC exactly?

I'm running Panther 10.3.9 on my iBook and have no problems with Flash Chat. (I use Safari as my browser.)

Amie · #15 July 9th, 2005, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ScottW

Oh, it doesn't matter. The chatroom could be <insert software, network or anything here> and it would be empty. Trust me.

We could call it "Quiet Place", the perfect place to get away too when your tired of everyone in your face.

LOL

Sounds like an ad: "Tired of everyone in your face? Get away to the Quiet Place!"

nixgeek · #16 July 9th, 2005, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Amie

What is IRC exactly?

I'm running Panther 10.3.9 on my iBook and have no problems with Flash Chat. (I use Safari as my browser.)

There was never any doubt that it would work in OS X. I haven't tried it on OS 9 (which it would probably work in) since I'm usually logged into Debian (my StarMax is dual-boot). I prefer using Firefox and Gaim and all the other apps available to me under Linux than what there would be under OS 9 (of course, this might change if I could just find a decent browser and multi-IM client for OS 9...

).

As for IRC (Internet Relay Chat), it's one of the oldest chat methods available, second I believe to the BBS chatrooms of decades ago. They call it Internet Relay Chat because there are multiple servers that "relay" the chatrooms that would be available to the main IRC server. So instead of everyone in the world bringing down one server to access the available chatrooms, there are "mirrors" if you will that relay the chatrooms so that theyr don't kill the main server. Most of these relay servers are located geographically for people that are close to them, so that if you are in the US you don't go logging into a server in Russia, for instance.....you would use the US IRC server.

The only reason I mentioned IRC is because there are IRC clients available for basically every OS, where Flash is only available for a select number of operating systems.