Chat is Dead

[Trixies Apprentice L 493]

The chat.......dead......

 

*2 seconds silence*

 

You shall be missed chat...You shall be missed.

 

Mainly because I started talking in there(Being kinda shy and all ) and yea I kinda enjoyed the randomness in there.....a lot.

 

Though I kinda don't get why it was locked. I mean the people that were mostly angry about it and now don't care that it's gone were the people that never came into it in the first place or came in and didn't enjoy what was going on.

 

The thing is why not leave it for the people that actually enjoy all that randomness. Why is randomness bad in the first place ? I mean we have the forums for talking and all that. Why not have the chat for all the chaos ? Though we did have conversation too, especially in private chat(me at least)

 

I tried to participate to both forums and chat room myself and enjoyed both. The chaos and hillarity of the chat and the organised talking of the forums.

 

I personally feel that just because the majority of people that didn't like it and actually didn't enter it to begin with caused a loss to the minority (Cause we were quite few there is no getting around that, Like the same 20 people ) that actually enjoyed it

[FLARE 952]

SO this is what I missed....

 

 

it looks like we might need to...go back to skype!

[HanPolo 151]

I never went in it anyway, but im still a little sad for some reason... I guess im shy and I actualy felt comfortable talking in there, the few time that I actualy did anyway.

 

But never mind. Let us lower our heads and remain silent for 10 seconds. Flat.

[Lord Sprixx 261]

When I first saw this I raving mad, I was ready to type up a storm of hate and anger. So I took a few minutes, and read this beast of a thread. I took a few minutes to talk to those friends I had made there over skype. I took a few minutes to think. I'm still sad, and even down right mad. I loved the chat, somewhere I could actually just chat with a fairly small group of people most of the time. But that being said, I'm not going to lash out, I love this whole forum too much to do that. I'm going to miss the thing, I doubt anything I or anyone else says will bring it back. Brohooves and mad hugs all round.

[Strife 455]

Like I said, use the Steam Group chat.

• It's free
• Don't need to bother with 'sending invites'
• Can appoint Moderators
• Can make it private (members only)
• Oh, and it's free. Yes, I know I said that twice.

[dar tunsh 446]

I understand and support this completely, but I will miss the fond memories I made there . I mean who could forget when Hinochi and several others all became Wolverine from Xmen (or a real wolverine in my case). Or perhaps sometime when Roop, the "Chat Mod" do to speak, would come in and say something witty.

Oddly enough though, I didn't notice it was taken down until just now because the tab is still up. I'm obviously oblivious XD .

 

*EDIT* Oh wait, this happened yesterday? I'm oblivious for a different reason then, because for some reason I thought this happened earlier (like say, last week?).

Edited April 9, 2012 by SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

[Java Jive 440]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5R_pS0h5Qk

....

Kind of saw this coming. The last week has not been one of the best, to put it mildly... It was a hateful and random mess. I came here for the forum, though i enjoyed dropping in each late evening after a long day, may have been more of a background guy but had plenty of good moments. I suppose there are a good amount of replacements. Livestream, Tinychat and SynchTube come to mind. Its not the end of all chat. Keep eachother on the lookout with status updates and we should be fine.

And hey. Atleast it hit the capacity of 50 once.

[Keypassion 232]

I would like to point out to everyone that what the mods say is absolute so there is absolutely no productive reason to be all butthurt about chat being taken down. Instead of complaining about it show some initiative and join one of the chat sites that Feld0 mentioned earlier, or make your own chat room.

Also, the butthurt soccer mom bit, it got old before my grand mother was born. Quit whining, shut up, and just move on with your lives.

Edited April 9, 2012 by Feld0
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[Killian Jones 2,655]

I am not sad a feature, which I did not use, is gone. If it really was a hassle, then it was for the best.

[Sunny Fox 5,961]

I can see why this had to happen. It was fun while it lasted, but I really didn't spend much time there personally. Keep on improving the site!

[Dreadmallon 353]

http://memeorama.com...meme-rage-face/

 

It seems we have a controversy.

[Lord Sprixx 261]

There was never any restriction placed on the chatroom that forced members to talk about pony related topics. The chat was predominantly removed due to the overall poor behaviour that was occurring in thre on a daily basis, causing a whole range of recurring issues.

 

 

 

There's the Official MLP Forums Skype Group, which has been around long before the implementation of the chat.

 

And despite closing down the chat once before as a result of poor behaviour, re-opening it with a new set of established rules in an attempt to improve chat conduct, holding a forum-wide survey to receive feedback that included getting members to evaluate aspects of the chat, responding to that feedback with a specific forum to allow users to discuss chat issues such as poor conduct and recurring chat bugs, then yes, we did completely disregard the community and closed the chat on our own accord. We are truly terrible people.

 

I wanted to add one last thing, that this post reminded me of. I posted on that feedback thread in regards to the chat, and it all comes down to the same thing. Mods enforce the rules, users follow the rules. That really shouldn't have even been an issue. Ask for the glitches and other errors, there were ways around every single glitch I came across (the 2 in total). Regardless I still respect the mods and Feld0's decision here, that's just how I am, but the chat is how I relaxed often. After a long day at work, or when I was feeling lonely I could just log onto the chat and talk to people who I were friends with. The chat helped me make friends! I apologize if I am coming off as angry or as if I am trying to stir up trouble, I'm really not, but I can't get this out of my head right now. Good night sweet prince.

[ProjectRKA 2,848]

Meh... what a great thing to wake up to

 

Anyhoo, I do understand why you close the chat. And I do respect that. Keep up the good work.

[Crazy Misty 654]

 

 

 

HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME ;_;

 

I'm sad but I'll get over it :v

[Pizzly 57]

sad but needed

Edited April 9, 2012 by Pizzly

[ZomBrony 347]

I never really care used chat but this still saddened me slightly and pissed me off moderately because of how things always seem to work for me; As soon as I show interest in something, it dies.

 

Thankfully that hasn't happened with the forum or MLP, but this happening honestly worries me, the first sign...

[BronyPony 575]

Wake up, get on MLPForums, discover chat no longer exists.

 

I want to go back to sleep forever, this is just depressing.

 

Wake up, get on MLPForums, discover chat no longer exists.

 

I want to go back to sleep forever, this is just depressing.

 

Suprisingly, this is the samething that happened to me.

 

In my other honest opinion, chat actually brings ponies together. From going on chat, I got many friends. I think with new users, if this happened, new users would actually enjoy themselves because they feel part of the community.

[Ashbad 969]

I'm sure you all remember me asking this before, but why not set up an IRC channel we can chat in instead? One of my friends is an administrator on a computer/embedded systems hacking/development forums we both frequent, and he has set up a SAX chat widget which members can chat into on the actual website, and a bot relays it to the channel, prefixing each message with who said it and a timestamp. He's had essentially no problems with it in the past few years he's implemented it, and it works really swell. I'm sure he'd love to help me and the rest of y'all make one similar for MLPforums.

 

That being said, some might question how we can keep it protected from outside hands. Pretty simple, in fact -- we have a few bots in the channel, possibly 1 or 2 idling channel ops, and one bot that relays messages into the channel from the SAX chat widget. Set the channel to then be invite-only, and BAM, it's secured. Anyone who wants to chat other than the chanops moderating the chan, needs to do so through the widget. I'd also be more than glad implementing the SAX relay bot, and a separate auto-moderating one (give warnings and such for bad word usages, create a log of all occurrences of bad word usages for the mods to ban trolls through, flood control, etc.)

 

The best part is, it could be easily implementable so that the widget is right below the top banner/ads at the top of the page, so you can chat while surfing the forums! A lot easier to moderate, and a lot easier to keep people focused on the forums themselves.

 

Just an idea

[Pizzly 57]

see you all on skype

Edited April 9, 2012 by Pizzly

[Dany Heatley 160]

I find it pretty amusing how almost everyone here says they are sad for it, but there isn't flat out revolt and rioting.

 

That's what i like about ponies.

 

I'm from Vancouver, so you should be ready

[Faithful Dawn 8]

Chat is dead.... I guess everything doesn't last forever after all... Thank you, chat. You were my Number one favorite feature in This forum. Thanks to you, I feel like being a part of the herd, even join in some huggles. Goodbye, Chat.

 

Regards, Snow Heart.

 

But... Let's move on and still be happy!

[KPM 288]

That's too bad. The chat was what remained of my interest... There is a chance I won't be making much appearance here soon enough :/

It's just that I am not the forum kinda guy.

[Tenor Clef 112]

Looks like Poole is closed forever :/

[Steamgamer27 170]

I seem to have missed something here. Hm.. I only entered the chat room once recently and in short, it wasn't a very welcoming experience. Reading through some ponies' statements I can assume I wasn't the only one with discomforting feelings with the chat.

 

 

For something else to crop-up from it's ashes in a new form or another (Skype or Steam chat, from what I've read), good riddance I guess.

[Nah 3,182]

I has a sad

 

 

In other news, my parents are wondering why I am spending a whole lot less time on the computer......