DS website Chat Room options

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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?