Chat Room

shauna_14 · Post by **shauna_14** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

This site is so cool!!...but ever thought about adding a chat room??

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

If I can remember correctly, there was a chat room in one of the earlier versions.

lil_hottie · Post by **lil_hottie** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

Sweet idea~!
And thanks for showing me this site shauna!

AtoMikEnRtiA · Post by **AtoMikEnRtiA** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

yeah but could you imagine the chat room with some of the characters in here.. good god..

i think we should do it, and if i had the time i'd make a chatroom for us all in flash , but who has time?

PastaJoe · Post by **PastaJoe** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

Sweet avatars ladies.

lil_hottie · Post by **lil_hottie** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

Thank you!

Punkinhead · Post by **Punkinhead** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

PastaJoe wrote:Sweet avatars ladies.

Agreed.

Post by **Ron** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

There was a chat room here for a long time. No one ever used it.

rreihart · Post by **rreihart** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

But, I don't think the numbers were quite what they are today, Ron.

esa · Post by **esa** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

let me be a chat room moderator.... couldn't you just picture it??? ::evil grin::

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

May God have mercy...

Post by **Ron** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

rreihart wrote:But, I don't think the numbers were quite what they are today, Ron.

Actually, since Oct. 2004, when the site was moved from the old location and still had the phpbb chat room add-on, traffic has been pretty consistant, cycling between 0.8 and 1.3 million raw hits per month. As far as unique IP addresses, that averages 500 to 650 unique visitors per day. It's nice also that the weekends usually have less activity than week days, so Rockpage enthusiasts are probably going out to see live bands.

The main problem with chat rooms is security and speed. They slow down the rest of a site because they really need to run at close to real time, which can drastically affect the microprocessor usage. Without a dedicated application running, you end up having a page with a constant timed meta refresh, which is an ugly hack and a mySQL bandwidth hog.

There also are the AIM/ICQ buttons at the bottom of every post if the person is an AIM/ICQ user, which 99% of the chatters I know are.
There's no use in reinventing the wheel.

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

How many here use IRC chat, i did set up a Rockpage channel about a year ago but noone used it. It would be a good place to start and dont effect the website in any way. If i get enough yays ill do it again.

http://www.mirc.com/

Asundor · Post by **Asundor** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

Go for it man. I think it would be cool to have a chat room. Get R' Done

Jason / CYPHIN

Punkinhead · Post by **Punkinhead** » Thursday Oct 20, 2005

Hurricane wrote:How many here use IRC chat, i did set up a Rockpage channel about a year ago but noone used it. It would be a good place to start and dont effect the website in any way. If i get enough yays ill do it again.

http://www.mirc.com/

yay

bfoust · Post by **bfoust** » Friday Oct 21, 2005

If you'd like, Ron, I have an existing IRC server setup with java support, all you'd have to do is insert an applet code into some page and voila, instant chat room. All the bandwidth for chat would be hosted by the chat server, not you.

wiskerbisket · Post by **wiskerbisket** » Friday Oct 21, 2005

i have a chatroom on my website w/ a feature showing who all is in it .very kool..wut i like about it was our bass player went to nc and we talked him on our chatroom,our fans love it

Staceman · Post by **Staceman** » Friday Oct 21, 2005

I remember the attempt at IRC. Hurricane was the only one I ever seen in that channel, if I remember right. It's tough to get people to use something they don't normally use already.

Probably the easiest thing to do, since probably everyone here uses AIM, would be to just make a room/channel/whatever-they-call-it in AIM, and tell everyone what it's called/how to access it/invite/etc.

lil_hottie · Post by **lil_hottie** » Friday Oct 21, 2005

oh well atleast we have MSN Messenger and PMs.............

Mistress_DB · Post by **Mistress_DB** » Monday Oct 24, 2005

Hurricane wrote:How many here use IRC chat, i did set up a Rockpage channel about a year ago but noone used it. It would be a good place to start and dont effect the website in any way. If i get enough yays ill do it again.

http://www.mirc.com/

The official Poison chat room is on IRC. (dalnet server)

The downfall to IRC is it's a hotbed for spammers and hackers so alot of ppl won't use the program.

AIM chats are cool. It would just be finding the right day and time for those who wanted to do it.

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Monday Oct 24, 2005

What about yahoo chats?

Mistress_DB · Post by **Mistress_DB** » Monday Oct 24, 2005

hummm... not sure how the chats work on yahoo outside of setting up a yahoo group. Not like a group is the hardest thing to set up. I've ran several in the past.

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Monday Oct 24, 2005

I put a flash chat room together this morning. Its probably going to be slow, they usually are. But if you wanna try it....

http://felixandthehurricanes.com/chat/index.php

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Monday Oct 24, 2005

Its working pretty good, 3 rockpagers in here now! stop in!

http://felixandthehurricanes.com/chat/index.php

lil_hottie · Post by **lil_hottie** » Monday Oct 24, 2005

am trying!