Hi where can i find the chat room??
Cheers Mark
Not sure if the new software supports it. More news as it comes to hand....
cheers
RET
ok thank RET
Ret ill second marks wheres chat.
Cheers The fat
I'll get to it just as soon as I can. It's not like I haven't got anything else to do, you know. ::)
RET
OK, I've installed a chat plug in, otherwise and with apologies to JO'K, known as a "Shout-Box".
it appears by default in the personalised box at the top of the page, and you can toggle between showing/hiding with the plus/minus icon in the far right (next to the current date).
It's not available to Guests, but open to all registered users. It might give the "Chat" concept a new lease on life (it never seemed to get a lot of use on the old forum, although it was popular amongst a few).
I'm interested in feedback, hence the poll.
cheers
RET
looks good,let you look at chat with not being in chat and jump in when you have something to say.
;)I think it will do for now but we might have to try and work out how to post a link on here to maybe start up a better chat room maybe on msn?? for those of us who did use it and there was only a handfull, we were on most nights!! I dont know if i would like everything i say on chat being made as public as that!! as sometimes the language used wasnt that HEALTHY......hehehe thats just my 2 bobs worth....cheers jamie
There are other alternatives available, I will probably remove this one and try them over the next little while.
cheers
RET
YEAH its not like our old chat...BUT it seems to have brought more people onto the chat site...BUT we have to watch our P's and Q's....BUT we cant see who's looking in..BUT we have chat..Cheers Mark ;D ;D
The chat has been turned off, at least for today. I'm trying to ascertain if it was responsible for the huge jump in bandwidth we've experienced over the last two days. It does seem more than coincidental...
Sorry for any inconvenience.
cheers
RET
It definitely looks like the shout-box addition was responsible for the jump in bandwidth earlier this week. The statistics from our host are very interesting - it's staggering the improvement since switching from YaBB to SMF.
| Day | Visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth | Comments |
| 01 Jul 2007 | 631 | 6876 | 57446 | 389.29 MB | |
| 02 Jul 2007 | 648 | 8314 | 50893 | 378.06 MB | |
| 03 Jul 2007 | 638 | 5899 | 44010 | 281.33 MB | |
| 04 Jul 2007 | 646 | 5759 | 46413 | 325.81 MB | |
| 05 Jul 2007 | 645 | 4777 | 41259 | 315.49 MB | |
| 06 Jul 2007 | 572 | 4514 | 42125 | 290.47 MB | |
| 07 Jul 2007 | 481 | 3298 | 30375 | 211.89 MB | |
| 08 Jul 2007 | 573 | 4681 | 43316 | 293.88 MB | |
| 09 Jul 2007 | 646 | 6052 | 51808 | 361.05 MB | |
| 10 Jul 2007 | 594 | 4941 | 41905 | 284.16 MB | |
| 11 Jul 2007 | 591 | 5379 | 39994 | 291.51 MB | |
| 12 Jul 2007 | 615 | 6065 | 38480 | 325.54 MB | |
| 13 Jul 2007 | 547 | 5899 | 42343 | 294.13 MB | |
| 14 Jul 2007 | 506 | 6016 | 35676 | 280.69 MB | |
| 15 Jul 2007 | 617 | 6066 | 46392 | 332.54 MB | |
| 16 Jul 2007 | 605 | 6611 | 48039 | 331.06 MB | |
| 17 Jul 2007 | 621 | 8046 | 49998 | 367.79 MB | |
| 18 Jul 2007 | 626 | 6032 | 41839 | 326.23 MB | |
| 19 Jul 2007 | 454 | 3527 | 25658 | 143.93 MB * forum shut down by host |
| 20 Jul 2007 | 598 | 6073 | 38389 | 112.21 MB * SMF implemented @ 1830 |
| 21 Jul 2007 | 626 | 9646 | 63534 | 170.01 MB | |
| 22 Jul 2007 | 620 | 8328 | 61957 | 158.03 MB | |
| 23 Jul 2007 | 664 | 119236 | 171385 | 224.38 MB *shoutbox enabled |
| 24 Jul 2007 | 583 | 208543 | 254904 | 280.18 MB *shoutbox enabled |
| 25 Jul 2007 | 558 | 29427 | 77771 | 159.87 MB | |
| 26 Jul 2007 | 546 | 7119 | 49894 | 130.12 MB | |
| 27 Jul 2007 | 509 | 6886 | 50872 | 123.54 MB | |
I expected to see a big jump yesterday after the flooding from inktomi (hot-bot search engine), but thankfully it didn't happen.
I'm looking at some chat software that works more like the semi-detached version we had on the old forum, more news as it comes to hand...
cheers
RET
OK, I've installed a new bit of chat software (http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/chat/). It should log you in directly from this forum, but if not, the username and password are the same.
Give it a whirl and comment here.
cheers
RET
Seems to be working fine thanks ret..Thanks for your effort getting chat back on.I know alot of guys dont like chat. but it saves heaps on phone calls..Cheers Mark
THANK YOU
It looks like there's a minor bug in the integration with SMF, where the displayed username is your login name, not the name as displayed here (ie for me it was "ret" instead of "RET".)
You can change this by going to the "User CP" (control panel) and providing a display name. You should only need to do this once.
cheers
RET
help im trying to get a profile sent in, on behalf of William [Bill] Scott who built cars 4 and 5, at Fishermens Bend when he was a pattern maker and motor body builder. He later became General Superindent of Experimental engineering, and I thought I might be able to contact some old workmates through this site.
But I couldn,t understand how to do it.......not very good on copmputer, and Bill could build cars but cant even turn computer on
regards Ann
On behalf of William Scott
our e mail is bill1ann1@optusnet.com.au
please give us some history
it is a pleasure to have such historic memories still alive
please tell