where's chat

[minifcvan]

Hi where can i find the chat room??
Cheers Mark

[RET]

Not sure if the new software supports it. More news as it comes to hand....

cheers
RET

[minifcvan]

ok thank RET

[FATBOY]

Ret ill second marks wheres chat.
Cheers The fat

[RET]

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

[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

[Just40]

looks good,let you look at chat with not being in chat and jump in when you have something to say.

[fe hotrod]

 ;)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

[RET]

There are other alternatives available, I will probably remove this one and try them over the next little while.

cheers
RET

[minifcvan]

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

[RET]

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

[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

[RET]

OK, I've installed a new bit of chat software.  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

[minifcvan]

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

[RET]

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

[bill1ann1]

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

[bill1ann1]

On behalf of William Scott
our e mail is bill1ann1@optusnet.com.au

[waynos]

please give us some history
it is a pleasure to have such historic memories still alive
please tell