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[Mesa]

Let's face it, the forums are huge and there is always quite a bunch of people online at all times it seems.
But they're all scattered across the boards and it makes it seem like that amount of online users is much smaller, which sometimes leads to little discussion as well.

So I've had this idea - why not implement a forum chat, via something like AJAX Chat?
It supports a multitude of forum systems, SMF included. I've seen it used on Knuckle Cracker (Creeper World games) forums, but that community seems too small to make such a chat viable.

So why not bring it in here? It would make the forum seem much more lively and it could also become useful for when DF2013 arrives.

[smjjames]

The problem though would be moderating such a chat. While most of us would behave just fine on such a chat, theres always the trolls and spammers.

[Manveru Taurënér]

The problem though would be moderating such a chat. While most of us would behave just fine on such a chat, theres always the trolls and spammers.

Exactly. I believe there used to be such a chat linked to the forum but Toady had to remove it since there was no way for him to moderate it properly, and as such didn't want it directly linked to his game/forums :>

[MonkeyHead]

There is a lower boards IRC room on the DarkMyst Server (#bay12lb).