'Live' Forum

[DOG GOD]

Sounds like a cool idea for sure. It would have to be structured well though, as some of the chat sites i've been on (hard rock music sites) can get a little "wayward" if posters don't wait to see what the previous poster has responded with.

Like the concept with a dogs player being involved though.

[Throughandthrough]

Anyway it's a grown ups site. .

I like boobs.

[LostDoggy]

Sounds like a natural progression. Good thinking TCD. It's at least got to be worth a trial.

[Scorlibo]

Yea, wudnt b 2 gud if da site bcame polluted wid abbrvtions etc. Da cht rm thin snds gr8 @ frst but twood prob bcum v hectic n unfavble. I like how the forum is now to be honest (tbh), it actually encourages everyone to make longer posts justifying their thoughts. I think the experimental nights sound like a good idea though.

... g2g

[Twodogs]

I like boobs.

I'm more of a leg man myself.

[The Coon Dog]

So Mods, any further thoughts?

[GVGjr]

A couple of thoughts that probably means we could not currently proceed with this suggestion.

1) The main reason would be that the site has been experiencing some system issues of late and a chat extension would really impact the forum. We review our hosting arrangement again in November.
2) I know vBulletin has a chat room extension but I would need to research this because my understanding is that it's typically very difficult to keep the forum acting primarily as a forum when a chat room is also operating. Perhaps this could be overcome by having a designated chat night once a week rather than it operating 24/7.
3) The other concern is what Twodogs alluded to. My guess is that with having a chat room it would be far easier for people to bring the text/sms type speak into the forum side of things which is not something that I'd like to see.

We will discuss this but I don't see this happening in the short term.

So Mods, any further thoughts?

It's not an option at the moment

[LostDoggy]

Does anyone remember the days of the Chat Room with the Western Bulldogs? It was great to chat to fellow supporters around the world. I guess that would have been about ten years ago.
Then they introduced a live vocal chat with Steve McPherson for about a season. It was like listening to radio on your computer and then being able to verbalise with Steve. Lots of fun, but it didn't last very long.
Then for a while they introduced chat nights with a player. That was interesting but again didn't last longer than a few weeks.
End of chat. Wish it could come back somewhere.

[dog town]

Does anyone remember the days of the Chat Room with the Western Bulldogs? It was great to chat to fellow supporters around the world. I guess that would have been about ten years ago.
Then they introduced a live vocal chat with Steve McPherson for about a season. It was like listening to radio on your computer and then being able to verbalise with Steve. Lots of fun, but it didn't last very long.
Then for a while they introduced chat nights with a player. That was interesting but again didn't last longer than a few weeks.
End of chat. Wish it could come back somewhere.

Yeah it was in the late 90's and early 2000's. I always liked it.