Beta Release - Sat Apr 6, 2002 <CHAT CANDIDATE 1>

[John Robinson]

Installed the first candidate for a chat program.

Click here for Beta Chat (requires Java)

Out of the box this is ugly! But it is open source, and I can fix the ugliness.

The name of this product is NFC Chat, written by Lyrisoft Solutions, Inc. Source, etc available here

It supports chat rooms.

When you first sign in, it takes you to a list of rooms. Click a room to enter chat mode.

[jellybean]

Doesn't work with WebTV™ :(

[tomkat]

john,

chat login / room creation worked just fine,
but the font really could used bumped up a point or two.

now all i need to figure out is how to create someone to talk to ... ;-)

but seriously young man, you've done a helluva job with all this lately,
and speaking for all one of us in 'the insomnia room', i applaud your labors !

[Howlin]

Oh, it's GREAT............GREAT.............GREAT!!!!!

[poet]

I second that. Also, I signed into Beta chat just now with no problem.

[eddie willers]

Doesn't work with WebTV™ :(

Yeah....its Java...sigh
But at least this Beta forum loads much faster for the little guy. :)

[Unknown Freeper]

John, you may want to let people know up front that they can't have spaces in their name when they log in (unless you change that).

[HairOfTheDog]

hehehehe - and until you firm up the login process... don't trust the screen names....

[Maceman]

I got in -- but there was no place for me to type an entry. I was the only one in the room, but I tried anyway. No way to type anything. But it did ask me several times: "You like talking to yourself?"

[jellybean]

Yeah....its Java...sigh

...*sigh*...I know!!!

Good to 'see' you, eddie...long time no freep!

[Great Dane]

Got logged in, 2 other people there, nobody talking. :-}

[Pete-R-Bilt]

kinda slow to load, and it feels like I have to learn the list of commands like dos but it seemed to work ok on my HPwin98 behind zap. another good job, u r magical.

[pt17]

Got in, joined a room and was able to chat. Will explore more later. Thanks, John, for all your hard work on this great site. Pt17

[Buckeroo]

Dear John -

You are screwing up the concept of a web forum.

Best Regards!
Buckeroo

[potlatch]

Hard to lurk when your the only one there. Seems more like voyeur. : )

That's funny!! On the other hand, if no one else is there, I can write as slow, and as much as I want!! LOL.

[eddie willers]

I can write as slow, and as much as I want!! LOL

And I can watch you. he he

[potlatch]

And I can watch you. he he

Yea, you and Great Dane, and two others who aren't talking!! Sounds pretty wierd to me! LOL

[ValerieUSA]

I made a room and I'm now an op. I hope an op is something good and not embarassing.

[potlatch]

I made a room and I'm now an op. I hope an op is something good and not embarassing.

Ha! Guess it depends on whither you're the OPerator of the room, or the OPposition!!! I'm too scared to go, because I'm a finger pecker {no comments please], but I might join Eddie Willers and Great Dane and watch!

[ValerieUSA]

How can someone watch without logging in and entering the room, where the other people in the room can see you are there, even if you're very very quiet?

[Timesink]

It's okay I guess (though, like all Java applets, takes forever to load and execute), but I'm wondering why we couldn't just have an IRC channel or something instead.

Also, I *really* don't like how anyone can log in under any Freeper's name; the password field appears to be irrelevant.