Blade Forums Needs A live CHAT

If people are intersited i can set up a live chat site. I have the space and bandwidth so its not a problem if its somthing you would like.
 
Ive been a member of 2 live voice video chats the one was a private 500 dollar life time fee with excellent streaming no lag and perfect pictures then the guy who owned it yanked the plug and we all lost our money and chat. The one of the guys that belonged to it bought the software and we all chipped in 20 bucks and had near the same thing it cost 200 bucks a year to keep up and running so once a year the 50 to 100 members threw in 5 bucks to more than pay this worked for 5 years then the server puked and that was the end of it. I just got a email of a new one he just started the other day. I could ask him if he would make a knife makers room it would be very cheap I will talk to him .It takes alot of time and dedication to maintain a live streaming web site and the person needs to spend alot of time at the web site to look after it. This guy does just that.
 
Actually, it has one. Text based, not voice or video based that is. Unofficially these days, but it has been around for probably 10+ years now. It is on IRC, #bladeforums.com on irc.newnet.net we meet generally between 9 and 12PM Eastern though people are welcome any hour. Mind you our regulars dropped off through the years and there is only a couple of us left, perhaps some new blood is in order? ;)

Rules are pretty basic. Everyone is welcome, treat others with respect, nothing illegal and remember that the channel is run independently of the forum these days. What that means is while we are all members on the forum, the Ops (think moderators) on the channel make and enforce the rules and chose, if the need exists, who gets banned. Any problems you have stay with the Ops on the channel. Bladeforums and its staff hold no responsibility for what goes on there.

Anyone needing help getting on, or setting up an IRC client, let me know. mIRC is a very popular client for Windows. http://mibbit.com/chat/ is a web based client. The server is irc.newnet.net and the channel is #bladeforums.com

Strangely, I had just been talking about this topic in email with Spark this past week. I thought I'd let him know we were still around and forum users were still welcome.

Oh, one last thing. While the common interest bringing us together was knives (duh) that isn't the only topic we discuss, like any group of friends things are just casual so if you are expecting everyone to talk knives every minute you are in there you'll probably get bored. Seems obvious, but some overzealous users haven't grasped that in the past so I thought I'd warn you. :)

-MJ
 
Yah, the old room is still there at newnet, I pop in every evening for a few hours. Would be nice to see some of the old faces in there once in a while, I know they're still around somewhere, new folks are always welcome of course, and yeah, back in the day it was alot like W&C with occasional knife content ;)
 
Of the various formats, the video/audio types are the biggest resource hogs. Not everyone is running a top gaming machine and fiber connection.

I believe Murray is still an admin at Paltalk. He can clue you in on whats required. My old machine would bog down and quit when I connected so I never was able to spend much time there. It also requires proprietary software.

IRC has one huge advantage. EVERYONE can use it. Clients are available for virtually every OS out there. We actually found an IRC client that ran on VMS for a guy who had a VAX cluster at his house. With a shell account all manner of older machines can use it.

Of course, simple text clients aren't cool enough for the ADD generation, but then they rarely sit still long enough to have a discussion.

NewNet is a nice quiet network that doesn't put up with the foolishness of the larger nets. They take security seriously.

The channel is open to anyone here that wishes to yakk about whatever. Knife people do occasionally talk about knives, but with all the different areas of knife interest you can't expect everyone to be interested in the same things. Listen politely and maybe learn something.

I've been sitting there every night for over 10 years now, and the users come and go. Right now all chats are rather sparsely attended for some reason.


Regards,

Pat
 
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