Will you use the Chat function or Chatroom?

[InbetweenDreams]

I know I'm new to GaySpeak, but I'm a little stumped on where I even find the new 'Chat'??  I looked at all of the top menus and didn't see anything, so hopefully I'm not too oblivious LOL

Good luck with the experiment though!!

The chat is along the bottom on the right. Not sure if it works on mobile...

[andy]

Hi Mike, you just beat me to it with your reply!

Hi Joel @"JoelR",

The chat bar at the bottom of the screen is only available when using a desktop browser at the moment. (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari on Windows, MacOS or Linux)

It looks like this...


When you click on 'Chat' you should see a list of available users...


You can also click on the little settings gear icon to the right of the 'Chat' on the blue header bar to change other settings like Chat Sounds, Keep List Open, Show Names Only, Manage Block List and tick whether you are available for chat or not. (you'll appear offline)

There is also a link to the Chatroom on the main page under the recent threads...


...and a 'Chatroom' text link at the bottom of every page on the grey bar.

I got a license for the chat yesterday so please everyone try and make use of it!


Andy x

[JoelR]

Ah, I'm so blind!  Thanks for the screenshot - totally would have missed the chat. 

One of the difficulties of Chat is that it's always going to be a smaller subset of your online users.  You're going to need a critical mass of online users before you even start thinking about add-ons that try to engage using synchronous conversation that require people to be online at the same time.  Otherwise, it might be better to focus on features that engage using asynchronous conversation, where people can come and go as they please.

[InbetweenDreams]

@"JoelR" The chatroom back in 2016-17 did have a fair amount of activity from what I recall...but I get what you're saying. I think Andy is looking to bring back the features that the site had at that time and that makes sense as those are a lot of the features that people miss. The trick is to get all the people who were regular users to come back to the site and of course people come and go too, but it is handy if you want to chat with someone on here in realtime.

[JoelR]

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@"JoelR" The chatroom back in 2016-17 did have a fair amount of activity from what I recall...but I get what you're saying. I think Andy is looking to bring back the features that the site had at that time and that makes sense as those are a lot of the features that people miss. The trick is to get all the people who were regular users to come back to the site and of course people come and go too, but it is handy if you want to chat with someone on here in realtime.

How was the level of activity in 2016-2017 compared to now?  The same, higher, or less?

[Insertnamehere]

Hey so as long I can coincide with people there, yeah.