I personally would love a group chat. Being a St. John’s fan, they have a group chat on Twitter called “Detes” and it’s always great to watch games and read the messages during it. Not sure if everyone has Twitter but would be a cool idea if createafourm doesn’t have a feature like that
We could use some free outside messaging systems like IRC, Twitter, etc., but I think that would defeat the purpose. We have lots of great content here (legacy and current), and we wouldn't want to replace this forum or lead people away from it. That said, I did some searching on the CreateAForuim.com site and came upon this link, where add-ons can be purchased. They offer a one-time $30 option for a chat-room on this following page:
https://support.createaforum.com/upgrades.phpThey have a Demo page for Chat, but it doesn't take my SBUfan forum login, so I cannot preview it. I would want to see how it works and if/how it integrates with our current forum before buying, but if it was any good, I'd gladly cough up the $30.
Do the Admins here (CoB and ecasadoSBU) have the ability to preview the demo using their SBU logins?
EDIT: P.S. Sorry to be pitching this idea in this thread. If anything comes of it, I'll start a new thread.