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I'm not sure how it can be fixed when a chatroom gets too popular. I guess it's just evolution, but (in my opinion) it's not half as good as it used to be... feels very impersonal, very unfriendly, and on the whole, no longer fun.
Hope you can turn it around (the people who make it worthwhile going in at all).
It's not a criticism, and it'll be hard to see from the inside, but it's becoming cliquey!... get it sorted chaps.
/AK
p.s.
All in favour of the move for registered names only! if it were up to me, I'd make folk wait a while before their account was activated too! (just to annoy those makingaccounts up on the fly)
Hiya Kid
So the chatroom is where you have been skulking all this time! confused
lhk
Kat
Hey AK how you doing??
I'm not sure how it can be fixed when a chatroom gets too popular. I guess it's just evolution, but (in my opinion) it's not half as good as it used to be... feels very impersonal, very unfriendly, and on the whole, no longer fun.
Hope you can turn it around (the people who make it worthwhile going in at all).
It's not a criticism, and it'll be hard to see from the inside, but it's becoming cliquey!... get it sorted chaps.

well i'm fairly new to the site (maybe 3 months now?) so don't think i could be said to belong to a clique of any sort, but it's a criticism you hear more and more! but even in that short time i have to agree with you! used to go in and know well over half of the room! (virtually at least) now go in at times and struggle to find anyone i know, so it's not surprising that the long standing regulars talk to eachother, and yes that could appear cliquey, but really it's just a circle of regulars within an ever expanding circle of newbies, many of whom just don't get the point and will soon fall away, to be replaced by more! (please don't take this as a criticism of newbies at all. we we're all newbies once! ;-) )
yes it's not so friendly cos the turnover of users seems huge, and it's bloody hectic in there lately! which does make it hard to meet new people in there when it's busy, and i'm sure many of them feel it's somewhat less welcoming than the room i got to know and enjoy so much! many of the regs i got to know seem to be using the room less and less at the moment, which is a problem for the site as a whole i think! how you fix it and still be a friendly, open, welcoming place??? well i don't know!!!!
still worth a visit though AK, and you always seem to get a big welcome when you do come in!
hope to see you in there some more!
neil
sorry but we have no problem getting in the chat room but we do find it goes aroung to fast
ched and maz :cheers:
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sorry but we have no problem getting in the chat room but we do find it goes aroung to fast
ched and maz :cheers:

Hi Ched and Maz,
It helps if you can train your eyes to react like those of a chamelion, i.e. independantly.
Harry0
rolleyes :roll: :roll:
HELP!
i dont supose anyone here knows how to set up ProxyPlus (a proxy/firewall program) to get mIrc to work on the net through a network?
anyone?
Hi,
Sorry if this has been covered by someone already: whenever i try & enter the chatroom i just get a 'connecting to server' message & nothing else. Would this be because i'm using a mac? Any advice appreciated.
Thank you, Jamie
jamie, it could be because your using a proxy server or a firewall maybe? as i had that error and im using a proxy/firewall
Hi Gav-n-Jess,
Thank you for the advice. I'm not using either of those, I also tried from another PC and still couldn't get on. Not techie enough to work it out but I'll keep trying, so maybe chat to you soon..
Jamie
sory if im being a bit blonde now (no offence ment to anyone..)but im following all yuor instructions and I still cant join in with the chat room ..I am new to the site so im sory for any bother its probebly just me but could you give me further info.
Thanks :confused2:
Hi SVC,
I'm being blonde too, but I still can't get on: just get the 'connecting to server' message & nothing else. sad there's another beta chatroom but there aren't many people on there. Hope you find a tech solution soon.
PS Like your rabbit.
I'm probably being thick but when I click on the chatroom link all i get is 3 boxes with actions (eg.... say hello to the room etc, emoticons and another one!), photo ad jump and the rules in the window - nothing else.
I haven't yet registered because I followed the user guide thingy and every time i click on the link it just comes up with that.... nowhere to put in a username etc.
Can someone help? It's probably me being stupid though!

biggrin
Thank you! I've downloaded Java and all is fine now!
Thanks again

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well,im very good with pc etc,i have tryed to get on to the chat room,i have tryed to do as thay say on, that does not work,i did try to get on to the chat room using mirc,i did the other day but not any more,its got to be easy to use,if its not no one will use it,
its all beyond me this java thing. Can't you come round and sort it? its all dashes and numbers and stuff. I'll supply the gin.
come on now, thats the good little fellas.
I'd offer to come round, if I could pretend I know how to sort this java stuff out.
hi i have tried with out any luck for the lasy week to log into chat,could you please help i have tried everything on the screen i am not much use on a pc so need to be took through step bye step thanks for your help s.
I'm very new here.. have successfully registered for ads and forum.. but can I hell get into chat .. no... it beats me.. have tried everything still no luck... maybe I'm missing something simple ? All i get is a "connecting to server" mssg.. I let it run for half an hour.. nothing
Jackson
I registered for chat when I joined SH . I had no problem getting in to the chatroom on that occasion.
However, on every subsequent attempt to enter the chatroom I have been asked to register again.
Even though I noted the nickname and password that I initially used for chat, I am still unable to access this facility. :cry:
If you don't login for a certain period of time, your nickname becomes unregistered, so you'll have to go through the registration again.
Is it just me who cant get in tonight? I was in earlier and it stalled on me, got back in and it froze on me again?
Just me or everyone else too? lol
Well I tried and failed :giveup: then Mrs Justloveit went straight in no prob, so not sure what that says but sure we will get some comments! rotflmao
I just love these emoticons biggrin
i m gonna swear
i tried to go into chat room and it said i had to be activated ummmm
ummmmm
i am ....i was
im fed up now
dont tell me ive got to re-sign up again with another user name
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i m gonna swear
i tried to go into chat room and it said i had to be activated ummmm
ummmmm
i am ....i was
im fed up now
dont tell me ive got to re-sign up again with another user name

If you don't use the nick in 30 days then you do have to reregister sad
wow has it been 30 days since i last went in ....... :shock:
now its saying its not connecting to server ........ sad
I am registered and have been in the room, but today i am having the same trouble. I dont know the answer to java script I am using aol and I am totally computer idiot. any help would be great thanks :cry:
Well I can connect, and chat, not now getting the partial connect and disconnect/reconnect thing that some seem to have (and I did for a while)....but I do have a little problem that maybe someone can shed light on.
I use both IE and Ozilla Firefox to browse, and they both seem to have this.
When I connect, start chatting (all fine so far) and then either after a few minutes or if I decide to scroll the user list up and down I get a very strange thing happening. The topmost post on the screen appears in the box I enter my text in, and also in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, on the right hand side, where the little list if icons of currently running stuff goes.
It is still possible to post, but I can't see what I'm typing (which since my typing is pretty poor doesn't help much) and it's a tad annoying.
Anyone any clues/ideas?
Cheers
I used to have problems with the text going haywire on an old version of java. The only thing I can suggest is that you go to and download the latest version.
Failing that try using mIRC.
Steve
Cheers steve, I did wonder if it was that, some java pages (like cams, purely in the interest of research you understand redface ) seem to have had odd behaviour of late. Well I now have the latest java download, lets see what happens when I go into chat....
No problems here in chat, was in there earlier but I use mIRC