 |
|
03-10-2008, 10:54 AM
|
#1
|
|
Senior Cook
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: PA
Posts: 128
|
Chat
I have been "surfing" the net. I say it that way, because until this forum, I never talked online. I would google and such, but never a forum website. I have seen that other forums have a chat room in them. I think something like that would go over big here. 
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 11:40 AM
|
#2
|
|
Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Mazatlan
Posts: 20,334
|
lol... are you saying that some of us talk toooo much???
__________________
Love the life you live!
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 11:44 AM
|
#3
|
|
Master Chef
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Cicero, IL
Posts: 5,093
|
Chat can be fun, but for some of us it would mean nothing else ever getting done again!
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 01:15 PM
|
#4
|
|
Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 19,725
|
We have talked about a chat room before and I don't know, at this time, if that is an option. We would need someone moderating it and this also may be a program that needs to be purchased.
I use MSN for chat.
__________________
kitchenelf
"Count yourself...you ain't so many" - quote from Buck's Daddy
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 03:41 PM
|
#5
|
|
Senior Cook
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: PA
Posts: 128
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by kitchenelf
We have talked about a chat room before and I don't know, at this time, if that is an option. We would need someone moderating it and this also may be a program that needs to be purchased.
I use MSN for chat.
|
I would be happy to moderate it for you
I'll look into what it would cost today. I'll get back to you. If it isn't out of my budget, I'll buy it myself. I stress: IF IT IS NOT OUT OF MY BUDGET. I have a family and kids along with a wife. How to explain that I am buying a chat program for a website, might not be easy.
You might have to buy it for your site, but I will be more then happy to moderate it for you.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 06:33 PM
|
#6
|
|
Senior Cook
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: PA
Posts: 128
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by kitchenelf
We have talked about a chat room before and I don't know, at this time, if that is an option. We would need someone moderating it and this also may be a program that needs to be purchased.
I use MSN for chat.
|
ok, I did some homework and found a free software site. Give this a try.
Join Chat Rooms - RealChat
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 06:36 PM
|
#7
|
|
Chief Eating Officer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: USA,Massachusetts
Posts: 25,518
|
Money and mods are not the only reasons we have not gone this route yet. There are some other logistical reasons why it might not make sense here. The mods and admins will continue to discuss it though and see if it will fit in here.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 06:39 PM
|
#8
|
|
Chief Eating Officer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: USA,Massachusetts
Posts: 25,518
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PastaKing
|
That looks like it is only free for a trial. If you decide to but then the cheapest choice is $295 for 100 users.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 06:41 PM
|
#9
|
|
Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Southeastern Virginia
Posts: 26,462
|
It could come in handy when someone has a recipe emergency ... "OMG, my entire family is coming over and the cap came off the salt shaker! WHAT DO I DO!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!"
__________________
Anyplace where people argue about food is a good place.
~ Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown, 2018
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 06:47 PM
|
#10
|
|
Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NW PA
Posts: 18,751
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by GotGarlic
It could come in handy when someone has a recipe emergency ... "OMG, my entire family is coming over and the cap came off the salt shaker! WHAT DO I DO!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!"
|
Throw it over your shoulder?
__________________
Give us this day our daily bacon.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 06:58 PM
|
#11
|
|
Senior Cook
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: PA
Posts: 128
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by GotGarlic
It could come in handy when someone has a recipe emergency ... "OMG, my entire family is coming over and the cap came off the salt shaker! WHAT DO I DO!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!"
|
You joke, but you might be right. Last night I was making cooked marinated mushrooms. I went to the store but could only find Red Wine Vinaigrette. My RC called for White. I wasn't sure if I could use Red, or if I had to make my own White. I called a friend of mine who owns a restaurant and he said I could use Red. If I could not get a hold of him, yes, I would have been on here with such an emergency.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 07:02 PM
|
#12
|
|
Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NW PA
Posts: 18,751
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PastaKing
You joke, but you might be right. Last night I was making cooked marinated mushrooms. I went to the store but could only find Red Wine Vinaigrette. My RC called for White. I wasn't sure if I could use Red, or if I had to make my own White. I called a friend of mine who owns a restaurant and he said I could use Red. If I could not get a hold of him, yes, I would have been on here with such an emergency.
|
OK, question.
How does chat differ from just posting?
Couldn't you have gotten your answer just as fast by just asking in a post?
I am someone obviously oblivious to chat. 
__________________
Give us this day our daily bacon.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 07:06 PM
|
#13
|
|
Senior Cook
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: PA
Posts: 128
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by pacanis
OK, question.
How does chat differ from just posting?
Couldn't you have gotten your answer just as fast by just asking in a post?
I am someone obviously oblivious to chat. |
No. With a chat it would be instant. A post might take a few hours.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 07:08 PM
|
#14
|
|
Chief Eating Officer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: USA,Massachusetts
Posts: 25,518
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PastaKing
No. With a chat it would be instant. A post might take a few hours.
|
LOL stick around a while PastaKing. It is rare that a post here looking for advice takes longer than a minute to be answered
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 07:09 PM
|
#15
|
|
Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NW PA
Posts: 18,751
|
Why?
This exchange between us didn't take a few hours.
Why is chat more instantaneous? Does it bypass server glitches that might hold up a post?
__________________
Give us this day our daily bacon.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 07:12 PM
|
#16
|
|
Senior Cook
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: PA
Posts: 128
|
If you guys don't want a chat on your site that's cool with me.
It was just an idea.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 09:52 PM
|
#17
|
|
Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Southeastern Virginia
Posts: 26,462
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by PastaKing
You joke, but you might be right.
|
I was really only half joking I meant to support your idea, in fact. I can see where it would really be handy sometimes.
__________________
Anyplace where people argue about food is a good place.
~ Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown, 2018
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 09:56 PM
|
#18
|
|
Chef Extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Southeastern Virginia
Posts: 26,462
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by pacanis
Why?
This exchange between us didn't take a few hours.
Why is chat more instantaneous? Does it bypass server glitches that might hold up a post?
|
Pacanis, chat is a synchronous method of communication, like a telephone - you ask a question and someone is already there who might have an answer. The forums don't necessarily notify someone that a question has been asked *right now* that needs a quick answer. It might take a few minutes, or a half hour, or longer, for someone who has an answer to view a question in a forum, where it happens right away in chat. That's assuming that the chat method would notify whoever might be logged in to DC that someone is requesting a chat. HTH.
__________________
Anyplace where people argue about food is a good place.
~ Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown, 2018
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2008, 11:07 PM
|
#19
|
|
Master Chef
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Posts: 6,592
|
Actually, unless it has been deactivated, we do have "chat" available. I'll have to defer to GB for the final word on this ... I just know what we used to have.
We have/had an "opt-in" program ... if you want to be "instant chatted" you can sign up for it ... but it is not a function of our site per se - we just provide a bridge to it.
Click on "User CP" at the top of the page, then click on "Edit Profile" - then scroll down to "Instant Messaging" - enter your information for "ICQ, MSN Messenger, Skype, AIM and/or YAHOO Messenger". Then, if you are online here, and a;so logged onto the messigning service - someone else with the same messaging service can IM you ....
This has been around for several years - and hasn't been too popular.
Some users don't even want other users to know when they are online in the forum format!
__________________
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain
|
|
|
|
|
03-11-2008, 05:27 AM
|
#20
|
|
Executive Chef
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Central UK.
Posts: 3,875
|
if you need a chat server that`s no problem at all, and won`t cost a penny, nor will the Bots to have it hosted complete with a Censorship routine that replaces any Choice language or word with < Censored >
I`v been with them for about 5 years now (In a Science Room), it would be No problem to get you a DC room or whatever you wanted to call it.
let me know and I`l have a chat with one of the IRCOPs (Admin).
__________________
 Katherine Snow. xx
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
» Latest Forum Topics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
» Recent Recipe Discussions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
