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A couple of times this summer, I've thought about hosting chats. And each time I question whether anybody would actually attend said chats. Now, rather than question this for myself yet again, I'd like to put it out there for you dinkers to comment on: if I host chats, will you attend?
Read comments for specificer (if that's a word... well, it is now) questions.
The thing is, most of my chats in the past have been fairly unfocused on Dink. We've had a set of topics to get the chat started, and then built off those topics as we've gone. Usually, by the end of the chat, we're not talking about Dink. While I personally like this sort of informal, actual "chat" format, I can see where a lot of people would be discontent with that. So there's another question: Would you be more likely to attend chats if I sort of redesigned the format to be more Dink-related, and tried to prevent the chat from going off-topic?
Also, more people attended the chats when it was a java-based format. The way we have it set up now, you must download the mIRC or Trillian client to connect to an IRC chatroom. It's understandable that IRC is a less user-friendly interface and thus we'll get fewer dinkers in the room, but it also has a lot of admin-based advantages over Java. So, would you be more likely to attend chats if we reverted to a Java-based room (a chatroom that you would not have to download a program to use, but you could simply go to a website and access the chatroom from your browser)?
Finally. Last question. Also back in the day of the Java Chatroom, we held one chat at a time that was convenient for European chatters and one chat at a time that was convenient for North American chatters. Personally, I never liked this because it was basically two totally different chats. But some people might have liked it, so Would you like to see chats divided again so that there's a European chat time and a North American chat time?
There you have it. Please post your comments, and tell me what you, personally, would like to see happening with Dink Chat.
Read comments for specificer (if that's a word... well, it is now) questions.
The thing is, most of my chats in the past have been fairly unfocused on Dink. We've had a set of topics to get the chat started, and then built off those topics as we've gone. Usually, by the end of the chat, we're not talking about Dink. While I personally like this sort of informal, actual "chat" format, I can see where a lot of people would be discontent with that. So there's another question: Would you be more likely to attend chats if I sort of redesigned the format to be more Dink-related, and tried to prevent the chat from going off-topic?
Also, more people attended the chats when it was a java-based format. The way we have it set up now, you must download the mIRC or Trillian client to connect to an IRC chatroom. It's understandable that IRC is a less user-friendly interface and thus we'll get fewer dinkers in the room, but it also has a lot of admin-based advantages over Java. So, would you be more likely to attend chats if we reverted to a Java-based room (a chatroom that you would not have to download a program to use, but you could simply go to a website and access the chatroom from your browser)?
Finally. Last question. Also back in the day of the Java Chatroom, we held one chat at a time that was convenient for European chatters and one chat at a time that was convenient for North American chatters. Personally, I never liked this because it was basically two totally different chats. But some people might have liked it, so Would you like to see chats divided again so that there's a European chat time and a North American chat time?
There you have it. Please post your comments, and tell me what you, personally, would like to see happening with Dink Chat.
