I have an idea.. How bout a live chat for Afterdawn?! This site has a large number of members, not sure how many are on at one time, but the moderators and people that have knowledge could help you instantly..
Having a live chat would ruin aD basically. Live chat = nobody posting on forums, instead going straight to the chat No Posting = No advertisers No Advertisers = No Money No Money = No aD..... There is a chat where a few of the aD regulars hang out on IRC. We have developed a Java Chat for people that dont use IRC. http://adbuddies.ccsau.com Please Note, this is no way affliated or run by Afterdawn in anyway, shape or form. CJC
ahh oh ok, Hmm, It was an idea b/c I've been to another game forum site that had everyone in the forums and it showed whether they were online are not, then it had a live Chat.. It was pretty cool. I love AD, so I figured throw that out there.
I would think it would be confusing as hell trying to keep up with who got what advice and who had what problem considering the number of members here.......
It is a good idea though You might wanna come check out #ad_buddies http://adbuddies.ccsau.com Good place to hang out, most of us idle, so just hang about, come for a chat, come for some advise. We like to see new faces in there
This has been discussed zillion times. Reasons: -legal implications, live chat is virtually impossible to moderate -income -- advertisers hate live chats, as they have extremely low click-through rates for banners and also due the legal risk/unmoderated -forums have the ability to become searchable FAQ databases, whereas chats/IRC cant never achieve the same ease of use in terms of finding old topics/solutions. Additionally, such feature would certainly drive number of users away from forums and to use the chat feature in hope of instant reply to their question, thus devaluing the forums further and making it even more difficult to find old answers using search.
Well you the man.. Oh well I though it was a good idea. Anyways thanks for the clarification. I actually came up with it because I seen one in a big gaming forum site. But thats them.. I still love AfterDawn and will be faithful to this site.....
