Chat system for HXF like facebook

[LOLROB]

I can still see it ending up the same way, everyone uses it for about a day and then it turns into a desert.

If people on the forum are that close to chat 1-1, don't they use MSN or something?

Well its a alternative to giving out your msn
But I think it will catch on because I personally will use it if it gets added.
Because some people don't like giving out there messengers and all you need to do would be "add friend" on the forum and start chatting away. I don't see nothing bad about this it cant be as bad as the flash chat system thingy

[Wootzeh]

Admin will not use this.

[Bef]

would u have to accept friends?
i wouldnt want annoyingly random people adding me

[LOLROB]

would u have to accept friends?
i wouldnt want annoyingly random people adding me

Yes I think you would have to accept friend requests

[Immenseman]

I don't want people annoying me, I dislike PMs that aren't of any importance as it is. If they were to implement the friends thing and only those friends could talk to you then yeah sure it'd be good. However, I know the current chat and the proposed chat are different there is still going to be the mentality that chats = fail which is fair enough. It'd be quite a good little feature.

I know you said it didn't affect posting on the forum you mentioned but it might on here which would lead to less topics being posted on HxF which in time would lead to less users as there wouldn't be as much topics that interest them leading to boredom and what not. So really it could be negative for HxF to add such a feature.

It could go either way. However, I doubt it'll be added because it's not really that beneficial because I don't think it'll make anyone enjoy the forum any more than they do already - if I want to talk to a member away from HxF I will ask for their MSN. That doesn't happen much. A forum is for chatting anyway so I don't see why I'd need to chat to anyone via an integrated chat.

So in my opinion I don't think it's worth the hassle or time when it won't give anything back. Just my two cents.

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Took me like 10min to see what it was ol:

But yeah its cool, doubt it will be used.

[Immenseman]

Already from my post saying I dislike pointless PMs I've had one trying to wind me up

[LOLROB]

I don't want people annoying me, I dislike PMs that aren't of any importance as it is. If they were to implement the friends thing and only those friends could talk to you then yeah sure it'd be good. However, I know the current chat and the proposed chat are different there is still going to be the mentality that chats = fail which is fair enough. It'd be quite a good little feature.

I know you said it didn't affect posting on the forum you mentioned but it might on here which would lead to less topics being posted on HxF which in time would lead to less users as there wouldn't be as much topics that interest them leading to boredom and what not. So really it could be negative for HxF to add such a feature.

It could go either way. However, I doubt it'll be added because it's not really that beneficial because I don't think it'll make anyone enjoy the forum any more than they do already - if I want to talk to a member away from HxF I will ask for their MSN. That doesn't happen much. A forum is for chatting anyway so I don't see why I'd need to chat to anyone via an integrated chat.

So in my opinion I don't think it's worth the hassle or time when it won't give anything back. Just my two cents.

But it is on the interface
Instead of sending pm after pm and then deleting pm's to make space etc
It can be done with one click and its use friendly. The flash chat we got at the moment if people want to talk and don't have msn they would have to go to user settings find the flash chat box tick it then have the horrid chat box at the bottom of the forum just to talk to some one. Where with this it can be done via one click.

Not every one has msn If I wanted to talk to some one on habboxforum I think that would be a good chat script to add. It would save me some time hunting though my 470 contacts and half the time they got msn plus so searching for some one is a pain in the ass.

Anyways its your personal comment and we all got are views xox

[Immenseman]

But it is on the interface
Instead of sending pm after pm and then deleting pm's to make space etc
It can be done with one click and its use friendly. The flash chat we got at the moment if people want to talk and don't have msn they would have to go to user settings find the flash chat box tick it then have the horrid chat box at the bottom of the forum just to talk to some one. Where with this it can be done via one click.

Not every one has msn If I wanted to talk to some one on habboxforum I think that would be a good chat script to add. It would save me some time hunting though my 470 contacts and half the time they got msn plus so searching for some one is a pain in the ass.

Anyways its your personal comment and we all got are views xox

The private messaging function has served this forum well for years. There are no problems with it. It's not really hard to delete PMs - I often delete unread ones - they don't interest me much like I wouldn't be interested in random people talking to me on the chat. I don't want to talk to them.

I don't think you can use the argument "not everyone has msn". I know not everyone in the 6.6 billion population accesses MSN messenger but I would be very confident in saying the vast majority of this forum have used MSN at some stage in their lives. Maybe they don't like adding people who they don't know in real life, that's their perogative.

However, those who don't want to add online people you can still talk to them easily through the PM service even if it does take a huge 5 seconds more than using a chat system. That's not really going to swing my opinion on the matter, it won't even come close to doing so.

Also, I think by adding one you're taking away the fundamental purpose of this forum. To chat and provoke discussion. Adding one will lead to less activity which like I mentioned before hand will lead to negative consquences in the short and long term for Habbox.

I appreciate your argument and can see what you're saying. However, I don't think one should be added for the above reasons in this post and my other.

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I'm not really sure how this works, do you mean exactly like on facebook? I always appear offline on chat 'cause I get annoyed with people talking to me I don't even think the friend feature is ever used because it's pointless and I doubt people would start adding others as friends just to use the chat when they could easily, like Jake said, pm them. If you could appear offline on it that'd be good cause I wouldn't want it

Just like the chat that used to be used (very rarely, this IM will probably turn out the same..) it would be really hard to monitor what the users were saying on these chats, it could be used to bully or break any kind of rules I guess. The chat failed so I can't really see this happening, infact I'd rather the chat because it meant you could talk to many people rather than just the one but yeah that was a failure.

I wouldn't really mind aslong as I could appear offline on it