What an excellent, informative and eye-opening programme!
I despaired at some of the negative experienced people with HIV have suffered (more so in the heterosexual community it seems) and the scary attitudes younger parts of the population have to putting themselves at risk.
I've seen friends die of HIV/Aids-related conditions and just can't imagine how anyone in 2007 can simply close their eyes and take unnecessary risks.
Can't wait for the second part of the programme next week. I take my hat off to the BBC and Stephen Fry for a well put together documentary on an important topic.
I think that sounds a great idea - I'd also have liked the idea of a host being able to pass the access onto someone else rather than having to close a room down.
...and remember the chatroom emoticons are case-sensitive; for example:
:heart will display something similar to this :love:
:Heartor :HEART won't display anything other than the text you type
the new one was up tonight briefly and when i looked there were a number of things not working correctly (again) and it wasn't marked as beta this time
GnV, although you don't have problems it doesn't follow that everyone else's problems must be because of their operating system configurations. If this was the case they'd have problems with lots of things, not just SH.
Saying SH is a quality site then comparing it to ADSL is like saying "my house has an fabulous brass letterbox; Royal Mail delivery times aren't good". The two aren't directly connected in respect of this thread.
This thread has been bought up so many times that I've lost count. I hear what is being said from the op/mod/admin side and I believe they all work hard. Absolutely no problems there. :thumbup:
I think the point being missed every time is that a lot of people use a number of chat sites and this is the only site that has continual problems.
Any user would (or should) expect teething problems with new services or major changes. However this site has been around in its current guise for some considerable time and yet the problems continue on a regular basis.
A few people have made very sensible comments that perhaps better communication would improve things. Simply blaming each individual issue on a user's computer isn't an answer. A well designed site should be able to cope with differences in browser, flash versions etc (subject to a flexible common standard that's easy to understand).
I use about a dozen comparable sites offering similar chatroom functionality with a selection of browsers but I haven't had to go through numerous changes to my PC to accommodate them.
The new chatroom has been in beta for what feels like years and yet this is still not released. I can understand why Symbios are keen to develop their own unique version of a chatroom to make it appealing, but it could have been based on tried and tested solutions and been given a SH "flavour" rather than starting from scratch and continually not quite making it work. This sort of chatroom is hardly ground-breaking.
Why do the forums work well without continual crashing and hiccups? Because they're based on stable common and well-supported code. Why not apply this approach to the chatroom?
I'm a non-paying member for the record, though to be honest I don't see that this makes any difference. We all would like things to be better and more reliable.
Rather than ask in here you could always submit a ticket or pm a moderator or admin to ask. You'd probably get a relevant response to your question.
...I've just noticed your signature (and thinking about conversations in the newbie room).....
Sometimes only sometimes....I don't do lady snogs
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) about the need to move to new servers for capacity reasons, but this doesn't have to go hand in hand with changing the front end. The whole lot should be stabilised at the back end first.
