wally wrote on Feb 11^th, 2011 at 1:45am:


Must be time to renew your subscription...

I'll take a bath and even use soap

There's a chat on this site??? What now? Really? Why? I don't chat...

DOH! (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

Ahhh yes three years ago I put it on the same server as the photo gallery so guess what? I gotta make that go away or find a new home for it sometime soon as well. FWIW - It was used about 12 - 18 times in all of 2010. Feb 9, 2011 was HUGE in comparison.

In the meantime:
You need to register with the chat thingy. If you already did at some point but forgot your (totally unconnected with the forums) password, if you PM me, I can delete your name and you can reregister as you. Not a big deal. Or you can be youyou2 if you want.

As I recall you get disconnected after a certain length of inactivity. Close the chat window itself and you're screwed. You can't login again (since you already are in) until the chat dumps you as an inactive, good for nothing....

FWIW - what's there is a simple, server-side chat. There's absolutely nothing to download but for the html window and new lines of chatter. A second or two at most. Jimbo, are you thinking of the old Java based chat. It's nothing like that. This one is pretty cut and dried basic. I'm surprised the passwords are encrypted as I look at it now.

The only guess I have as to a delay is the original browser window asking you if you would like it to remember your password. I can't change your browser settings but for stuff of little consequence I'd suggest tweaking my memory whenever....

I can help around the fringes but it pretty much is what it is.

db wrote on Feb 11^th, 2011 at 8:09am:

Oh DRAT!  Just when I was getting some company on chat.

BTW:  Jimbo and I were on last night for an hour 9:00 - 10:00.  We kicked around for a while waiting for other entertainment to arrive, but alas, no takers.  But at least I got the personalized version of what happened during Jimbo's last adventure into WCPP ... see your next issue of BWJ.  (I did notice later that old_salt logged in around 10:30 or so.)

Anyone try "TinyChat?" or some other "free" service.  I notice that TinyChat (although open to all comers) can serve about 12 concurrent users ... and there you get full audio/video.  Supposedly, the complete content is flushed when the session ends.

dd

db wrote on Feb 12^th, 2011 at 9:45pm:

So far as I know, Skype is only one-to-one.  But I do use it to chat with my grand daughter all the time.  She says "I need to Skype my Pops."

dd