Chatroom

Chat Schedule: 8PM EST/BST Time

Why the chatroom?

• File Sharing
  • Share your files to an individual person, or the entire chatroom.

  [*]Private messaging

  [*]Notified when messages have been received through sound

  • Makes sure you do not miss messages while browsing the forum!

  [*]Can see who is using the chat

  [*]Laxer environment

  [*]Only those in the chat can see conversations

  [*]Bigger chat box

Why the shoutbox?

• Quick and easy way to notify members of an achievement
  
• Quick questions
  
• Light chatter

Anyway, there are differences, and the chatroom does offer more functionality than the shoutbox. The main advantage is file sharing, message notifications and customization.

Just a question. With all these options in the chatroom, will it take a lot of bandwidth?

Just a question. With all these options in the chatroom, will it take a lot of bandwidth?

YC can use up to 200 gigabytes of bandwidth per month. As of now, we use about 30 gigs / month. If I notice that we need more bandwidth, I will upgrade the server. I most likely will need to upgrade the server anyway to a dedicated when we finally launch the social networking and music management system. I have to be careful with full MP3 sharing on this site, because MP3's take up alot of space, and use bandwidth. However, there is negligible activity in the chatroom for now, to even worry about bandwidth issues. Issues will only arise when the social networking/music management is launched.

how exactly does the file sharing work?

It doesen't work.. Because Chopin hasn't set the permissions correctly yet :whistling:

I see.

Should be fixed. Please let me know if the errors persist.

Chat Schedule: 8PM EST/BST Time

So... there's a regularly scheduled time for chat(room chat)ting?

There is indeed, as denoted in your quote. Now, if only people would be more religious about observing it. :)

Could anyone indulge my laziness and tell me what it is GMT?

Greenwich Mean Time perhaps?

that's what I just asked for :)

Ah, thought you wanted to know the acronym. It's the name for the time in all the countries falling in region 0 on this map (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Timezones_optimized.png). The time in the countries on the left of that region is equal to the GMT minus it's region number, the time in the countries on the right that of the GMT plus it's region number.

I know what it is, I was asking for the time of the chat in GMT

GMT is one hour behind BST, so it would be 7 PM GMT. I imagine we'll change the time to conform to GMT once Summer Time ends (if the chat schedule idea is still alive and kicking by then, that is).

Hi, I'm just wondering, is it really necessary to have the Chat room? I mean, I rarely see people going on, and there was only one time that I saw someone was on.

The idea is that the chatroom is more private with more features than the shoutbox. It isn't often used, though, you're right.

If the chatroom were to open when YC opened people would stay and chat for a bit, but that could get annoying. Would it be possible to get the chatroom embedded in the index page?

"Open when YC opened"? I was under the impression we did business 24 hours a day here. :P

(EDIT: I now see what you mean, silly I. See below for critique, however.)

It would be possible to have it embedded in the index page, yes, but that would be rather intrusive. What's more, it would put paid to any relevancy the list of chatters had, since it would be impossible to look at the index without joining the chat.

"Open when YC opened"? I was under the impression we did business 24 hours a day here. :P

It would be possible to have it embedded in the index page, yes, but that would be rather intrusive. What's more, it would put paid to any relevancy the list of chatters had, since it would be impossible to look at the index without joining the chat.

You know what I meant :P

yeah, I agree about the embedding thing, should've thought of that. :P

You know what I meant :P

Actually, I didn't, at least at first. 'Twas a moment of mental sluggishness. :P

"Open when YC opened"? I was under the impression we did business 24 hours a day here.

...that one had me on the floor :P

Haha. I should've claimed it as deliberate. :P

Why doesn't anyone use the Chatroom? I mean, a few used it when it was launched but now nobody uses it...

Need some heavy Chatroom commercial on YC TV :thumbsup:

Will the chatroom still be in existance when the networking thingmebob comes on line?