Suggested once a while ago (okay Im slack ) - but if anyones interested click on the chat link in this category to enter phpMychat, a simple chat utility . You can reserve your nickname, set up private rooms, all that stuff.

As always there will be teething probs, so post here to let me know please.

Anyone can register not just forum members.

It will be on the whole unmoderated, so email me if theres any upsets.

Thanks Matt that should be fun

so where do we click and how do we use it

On the front poage in the "bullettin board Related" category is a forum "chat room"
just click on that, type in a nick and you'll be in. you can register and reserve your name. Theres a "Tutorial" on the login screen.

DOnt know if anyone'll ever use it, but its there....if you want to use it and set up a room for you and your mates thats cool, go for it.

Fantabulious

I like it, should be good when the word gets out

Bleh, I don't have time for chats. And nothing beats the atmosphere of the board anyway.

Enjoyed the brief chat this morning

From the manual:

To set up a room:
/join #RedRoom

will move you into the RedRoom.

If you're a registered user, you may also create a new room with this same command. But then you have to specify its type: 0 stands for private, 1 for public (default value).

For example: /join 0 #MyRoom

will create a new private room (assuming a public one has not already been created with that name) called MyRoom and move you into it.

You can use the invite command to invite an user to join the room you are chatting in.

For example: /invite Jack

will send a private message to Jack suggesting him to join you in your current chat room. This message contains the name of the target room and this name appears as a link.

Note that you can put more than one username in the invite command (eg "/invite Jack,Helen,Alf"). They must be splitted by comma (,) without spaces.

Private messages:

To send a private message to another user currently in your chat room, type the command "/msg username messagetext" or "/to username messagetext" without quotes.

For example, where Jack is the username: /msg Jack Hi there, how are you?

The message will appear to Jack and yourself, but no other users will see the message.

Note that clicking on the nick of a message sender in the main frame will automatically add this command to the input field for messages.
[edit] Note: clicking the nick merely directs the message to the attn of that person, but everyone can read it.

Fabulous idea! Well done, Matt. Cept....




you forgot to put any people in there to talk to.....

Sorry 'bout that....its strictly BYO friends

Matt where is e1 i go in and no-one to talk to. Why dont you set a time that people can use it

mmmkay
should anyone be interested, what times are preferred for scheduled chats?

The best time for me at the moment is never, as I don't have time to chat at a set time. Hope that was helpful. =O

Very helpful brodius (not)
I think there should be two sessions one for AU and one for UK because there is alot of diff times and if the people know what time to go to speak to AU from UK the can do then

I'll be on thursday nights, if i remember


Mick

Ahh... while the boss is away.....

I can be on the same times as Brodius...
and three a.m. most mornings.

:thumbwink:

GMT+10:00, there are so many time zones maybe it might help if ya put your time zone down

It is 21:47 at the moment so we are 8hours behind

Mick - see you then.
Rusty - fir the UK thatd be about 11 hours brhind for you guys

Whoo. Timezones rock. =O

Total Agreement

That doesn't matter. Well it 0615 here at the moment, so it would be about 1900 over there

Whoo, Russ knows his timezones. =O