Re: DS website Chat Room options

[Guest guest]

I just tried to send you money on paypal, but it doesn't recognize your

yahoo email addy. Send us your paypal email address so we can send money.

Also, check out the chat rooms suggested by Theresa at

http://www.sfwest.com/ They are really quite cool. I'm happy with whatever

other people decide, but I think a link from the DS site is not too much

hopping.

Elle

[Guest guest]

,

My druthers would be a chat room that is unlimited, that would allow

folks in 24m hours a day, and that has a better window. You can code

your site so that anyone there can just press a button and would end

up at whatever chat room you finally decide on. I can help with that

if you need assistance. The only difference from how you have it

right now, is that a separate browser window would open or the person

would be redirected within the current window to the new site.

WWW.sfchat.com is a very reliable site. There is little down time for

maintenance, and their servers can handle a crowd without the

response time being turned to mush. Also, the cost is actually less

than xoom, and you have moderators priveleges. This is critical if

you open the chat to most of the DS sites, as you can bounce any one

with inappropriate behaviour. By that, I don't mean censorship, but

if you have some schmoe off the web posting naughties, you can block

him/her immediately.

Can you check out the sites I recommended and see what you think?

Hugs,

Theresa

> I don't know if I mentioned it here, but I am in the midst right

now

> of moving into a new home, so things are kind of scattered here

> right now. It's starting to settle down, so I should be able to get

> the pending DS website requests taken care of this week. One of

> these days things will settle down for me and I'll be reliable

> again, I promise!! :-(

>

> I'm sorry I didn't realize that the chat room I put in had a 10-

> person limit. I have seen the suggestions for other sites, but the

> problem is that I really wanted a chat room that is located ON the

> DS website, so that anyone who happens upon the DS website would be

> able to enter than chat room without a lot of hoop-jumping.

>

> If everyone's happy with the chat room that's up now, I'll be happy

> to upgrade to the ad-free version that allows up to 40 chatters,

and

> I do have a Paypal account of anyone wants to contribute toward the

> $100 charge.

>

> Should be keep the chat room located on the DS site, or just

abandon

> that idea and go to a chatroom somewhere else? If we do stay with a

> standalone chat, are there any other suggestions for that? So far,

> the only once I've found like that were xoom.com and the current

one

> that's on the DS site. Another option is to just direct everyone to

> the Yahoo Groups chatroom, but again that requires casual drop-ins

> to join Yahoo etc. before they can participate.

>

> Let's discuss -- what's the consensus?

>

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