The new Forum Chat is up and running.
HOW TO SEE WHO's CHATTING
See that link in the navigation bar at upper right?
1. If it goes yellow, it means that there are one or more people in the chat room
2. At any time you can roll over it and it will tell you who's chatting.
3. The text changes from "Start a Chat" to Join Chat when chat is active.
The new chat runs in Macromedia
Flash Player 7+, so if you don't have it, you probably want to download it. It takes just a minute or two even by modem.
HOW TO CHAT
Click on the chat link and a new window will open. You'll be automatically logged in under your username. You might want to test it out before you go to join a scheduled chat.
WHEN TO CHAT
1. You can start a chat anytime you want. You can even start a chat and browse the forum. Turn your speaker up and you'll hear a chime if someone joins in.
2. Scheduled chats
We've held past scheduled chats in the late evening (North American Time) in an attempt to accomodate our European audience. We've had a decent group from North America, but that's still very early in Europe.
I'm thinking now about possibly doing the chats on a Sunday at 10AM Pacific, That works out to about 6PM in the UK
I'll set up a poll with some various options
1. 10AM Pacific - 6PM UK (weekend) not necessarily this Sunday because of the Halloween Holiday
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclo...=0&sec=0&p1=283
2. Weekday 7PM California , 10PM New York - middle of the night in the UK
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclo...0&p1=283&sort=1
Any other suggestions before I add the poll?
Regards,
Matt