Live chat was requested quite a while ago, but I'm not sure how far it went.

Well, in case you haven't noticed, we now have a live chat facility. It was installed when I upgraded the site to the latest software.

It lives at the bottom of the forum home page (in a compact form) or you can click the 'Chat' link from the forum sub-menu at the top of the page to get a full screen version. There are two channels... general and staff only. Most of you will only see the general chat, if you have access to the staff channel you will get two icons on the left... a G and an S. These will be greyed out if you aren't in the channel, but should flash to indicate there are new messages.

You can PM people if you really want to, but be aware that it doesn't automatically open a new tab for the private chat. So if you want to use that facility you have to click the other users nickname and it will open a tab for you (I don't know why they elected not to have the system open the tabs automatically, but hey... I suspect it's down to the fact that you could be inundated with tabs) and they have to do the same.

The chat box receives notifications when people post too.

SilverWarior and I have used it quite extensively for chatting and it works quite well.

Any problems, comments etc. post them in this forum.