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[milkshark]

What exactly is "uninviting" about chat? It feels like people are talking about problems I'm not. Is there something difficult about chat?

It's like Chris' first day at the GaMe PLAcE. Everybody's already paired up, there are no boyfriend free girls to choose from and nobody lets you use the TV to play Wii games.

 

[Holdek]

The issues with Chat atm are:
1) We often have 30+ people.
2) Conversation doesn't always make everyone happy. I've apparently made people literally cry by drilling into a topic.
3) I described a conflict of interest before as the -pets- people versus the #gamerhumor people. Sometimes there's nothing you can do to get someone to give a shit about the current topic.

The issues with multiple rooms are:
1) "Cliques" already exist and may be exasperated through artificial barriers.
2) We sometimes have 10 or fewer people.
3) Wrangling everyone into the same area during slow times may be challenging or impossible.

I've been thinking on this for a while and will synthesize something eventually because I do believe it's possible.

In IRL situations they often have an overflow room for when there are too many people in a particular venue. I'm not sure of how the specific mechanics and policy would work here, but maybe have it when there are 30 people in chat, a new overflow chat room opens up. That would make it so it doesn't get overcrowded, but also there won't be multiple rooms open when there are 10 or fewer people.

 

[Holdek]

Although, some of the issue of text going by too fast when there are a grand number of people in chat is caused by the constant post updates in the chat like "a moment ago - Judge Holden replied to thread My Sexual Deviances."

 

[OtterParty]

Although, some of the issue of text going by too fast when there are a grand number of people in chat is getting rid of the constant post updates in the chat like "a moment ago - Judge Holden replied to thread My sexual deviancies"

If you scroll up a bit so the chatlogs aren't exactly at the bottom, the window stops autoscrolling. Might that help?

 

[Holdek]

If you scroll up a bit so the chatlogs aren't exactly at the bottom, the window stops autoscrolling. Might that help?

The auto scrolling isn't the problem, as the post updates still interrupt the ongoing chat conversation.

 

[OtterParty]

The auto scrolling isn't the problem, as the post updates still interrupt the ongoing chat conversation.

ohh. right. Misunderstood. But you're right, that is a thing that could be changed.

 

[CatParty]

How will we know when to respond to posts then?

 

[Mauvman Shuffleboard]

How will we know when to respond to posts then?

One of the "chat rooms" could be exclusively that shit with actual chatting disabled. You could just check that for latest post updates I guess.

 

[CatParty]

I would like a way to mark threads as read on the mobile version of the site.

 

[Linako 2.0]

I agree that we could use different chats for different topics, usually I get fed up of the ironic shitposting people might do in chat.

 

[silentprincess]

I have a few concerns about the new changes being imposed, something doesn't feels right about it. I think it is going to encourage more weenary on the lolcow threads, as well as the threads in off topic. They are going to make the forum less of a nice place to go and chat to people, and more of a place where people are going to be scared to post anything in case they have people weening. As in there is going to be a community breakdown, where you are going to lose the community spirit that has kept people on the board, which you don't find on many sites.

I thought the point of this forum was to not have a lot of autism, but I think the changes will encourage more autism, which will be overwhelming autism that looms ready to destroy us. The chat rooms sound okay, as long as they are monitored properly and it isn't full of people sperging, or making fun of people, it might end up that the weens end up winning. Along with all the other changes that have been mentioned.

I'm sorry if this upsets anybody, it's not that I don't like changes. But I guess thinking about it, the more I thought of all the faults with the changes and the thought that the weens are going to win over the site.

 

[Judge Willow Giovanna]

I have a few concerns about the new changes being imposed, something doesn't feels right about it. I think it is going to encourage more weenary on the lolcow threads, as well as the threads in off topic. They are going to make the forum less of a nice place to go and chat to people, and more of a place where people are going to be scared to post anything in case they have people weening. As in there is going to be a community breakdown, where you are going to lose the community spirit that has kept people on the board, which you don't find on many sites.

I thought the point of this forum was to not have a lot of autism, but I think the changes will encourage more autism, which will be overwhelming autism that looms ready to destroy us. The chat rooms sound okay, as long as they are monitored properly and it isn't full of people sperging, or making fun of people, it might end up that the weens end up winning. Along with all the other changes that have been mentioned.

I'm sorry if this upsets anybody, it's not that I don't like changes. But I guess thinking about it, the more I thought of all the faults with the changes and the thought that the weens are going to win over the site.

That was adorable and not offensive at all. Mostly agree with this.

 

[HG 400]

I have a few concerns about the new changes being imposed, something doesn't feels right about it. I think it is going to encourage more weenary on the lolcow threads, as well as the threads in off topic. They are going to make the forum less of a nice place to go and chat to people, and more of a place where people are going to be scared to post anything in case they have people weening. As in there is going to be a community breakdown, where you are going to lose the community spirit that has kept people on the board, which you don't find on many sites.

I thought the point of this forum was to not have a lot of autism, but I think the changes will encourage more autism, which will be overwhelming autism that looms ready to destroy us. The chat rooms sound okay, as long as they are monitored properly and it isn't full of people sperging, or making fun of people, it might end up that the weens end up winning. Along with all the other changes that have been mentioned.

I'm sorry if this upsets anybody, it's not that I don't like changes. But I guess thinking about it, the more I thought of all the faults with the changes and the thought that the weens are going to win over the site.

This. Meaningless trophies and achievements are what you bait autist-traps with.

 

[CatParty]

We need more trophies and achievements.

 

[BT 075]

We need more trophies and achievements.

The biggest flaw of this site is that @BRICKS Wangler has not been made an administrator yet. Too many fats, too little time...

 

[Colress]

mobile chet

 

[milkshark]

The auto scrolling isn't the problem, as the post updates still interrupt the ongoing chat conversation.

Maybe they could program a news ticker that scrolls updates along the bottom of the chat window. That would be slick.

 

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My main concerns mostly come from experiencing the growing pains of other forums like this, at least in size and community "togetherness." In far too many cases, what happens is that the managers decide to be really ambitious, pull up the stops, and essentially try to change the equivalent of a small but comfortable corner shop into a shopping mall. At first, the next format is amazing, but soon the new expanse of stuff waters down the community, and the free space begins to get filled in with idiots and try-hards. Eventually, things implode, the managers get pissed that what they worked on isn't getting the recognition it rightly deserved, and the whole operation implodes.

Now, that isn't to say some changes and revisions are a bad thing, but again I strongly suggest that we expand in metered steps. The chat can be improved upon, but let's keep it limited to maybe just a few chat rooms at this time - maybe just Chris chat, Lolcow chat, and Misc. Chat. Anything more might be overkill.

Game servers might also be a cool idea, but I would suggest we maybe have like a featured game of the week/month so we can keep a closer sense of community and we can include people who might only play on particular plaforms.

The forum add-ons, at least in regards to trophies and the like are very arbitrary in my opinion, and really don't serve any purpose. I don't know the criteria for earning trophies (I honestly think I noticed something about trophies once before and completely forgot about them until right now.) but my concern would be having folks like we did with "Batman" who come on here, post-spam (spam-post?), and not really add anything insightful.

And I do like the Wikimedia bridge idea, but as it was mentioned previously, keep it "serious" and strongly enforce the rule that we aren't putting it together for weens to ween about some random dA lolcow or whatever. Above all, the foundation and structure for such a project needs to be put into place before releasing it to the public. Or, thinking about it, maybe make that a perk of more dedicated members, that they can edit Wiki?

We got an awesome thing here on the CWCki, and I'm happy to be a part of this community. Here's hoping for the best for the future.

 

[Obnoxion]

I want to play Minecraft with you.

 

[silentprincess]

My main concerns mostly come from experiencing the growing pains of other forums like this, at least in size and community "togetherness." In far too many cases, what happens is that the managers decide to be really ambitious, pull up the stops, and essentially try to change the equivalent of a small but comfortable corner shop into a shopping mall. At first, the next format is amazing, but soon the new expanse of stuff waters down the community, and the free space begins to get filled in with idiots and try-hards. Eventually, things implode, the managers get pissed that what they worked on isn't getting the recognition it rightly deserved, and the whole operation implodes.

Now, that isn't to say some changes and revisions are a bad thing, but again I strongly suggest that we expand in metered steps. The chat can be improved upon, but let's keep it limited to maybe just a few chat rooms at this time - maybe just Chris chat, Lolcow chat, and Misc. Chat. Anything more might be overkill.

Game servers might also be a cool idea, but I would suggest we maybe have like a featured game of the week/month so we can keep a closer sense of community and we can include people who might only play on particular plaforms.

The forum add-ons, at least in regards to trophies and the like are very arbitrary in my opinion, and really don't serve any purpose. I don't know the criteria for earning trophies (I honestly think I noticed something about trophies once before and completely forgot about them until right now.) but my concern would be having folks like we did with "Batman" who come on here, post-spam (spam-post?), and not really add anything insightful.

And I do like the Wikimedia bridge idea, but as it was mentioned previously, keep it "serious" and strongly enforce the rule that we aren't putting it together for weens to ween about some random dA lolcow or whatever. Above all, the foundation and structure for such a project needs to be put into place before releasing it to the public. Or, thinking about it, maybe make that a perk of more dedicated members, that they can edit Wiki?

We got an awesome thing here on the CWCki, and I'm happy to be a part of this community. Here's hoping for the best for the future.

Thank you for explaining, that was what I wanted to say but couldn't really explain well.