Couldn't you guys just create an AIM Chatroom for Music Banter? AIM is much simpler IMO and everyone has it.

Thats what we used to always do. Everytime I got online ethan would have that **** rolling.
Ill talk to him right now if you want to get down with it.

Well, maybe not everyone...it is AMERICA online...most people ive met online from other countries usually got MSN

Anyone who doesn't have it can just use Meebo - Connecting AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace messengers and they don't have to download or anything

But yeah, I'm all for it if you can get a couple of people down for it.

Sounds likea good plan.

Ethans not responding, but Ill try to set something up.

I figured it out, I think, but its only temporary, hit me up-Thriceisonfire

Shouldn't be temporary, there was another one on a site we had going for awhile. Let me try and create the chat, give me a sec

I got ethan, were chillin in a room, hit me up on AIM and hell help us.

No one chatting tonight? It's Sunday. Even people with lives don't have anything to do right now.

If you're on your own, then you did something wrong. Most likely, you've connected to the wrong server. Just write these two lines like you would if you were chatting to someone :

• /server irc.rizon.net
• /join #musicbanter

There's always someone on the channel. If not people (who may be inactive), then at least the bots Banter and Albert (at the moment). Banter is even able to have conversations (sort of), so you could have a chat with her. ;)

If AIM chatrooms are like MSN chatrooms, then we've actually struggled with those quite a lot before we got the IRC channel up. This is by far the easiest way to have a chatroom that could potentially have hundreds of visitors at once, no sweat. You don't have to manage every member who wants to join and it's always open and there are always people hanging there.

I know a lot of people are a bit reluctant to try new stuff and learn new things when they have an old way of doing it, but this is actually a very simple and good solution.

I tried it. The conversation started to slide into sexual territory and I felt a little dirty inside.

Haha, it's funny to see the conversations people have with her .. Since I'm up at odd hours, I just caught this little nugget going on two minutes ago. ;)

And then these yesterday I believe :

She talks a lot. I might have to make a best-of thread sometime soon already .. She can be a bit of a mind****, but seeing as I'm the one who put her up there, it's quite satisfying to see that people enjoy chatting with her. :D

Hahaha... that's golden.
You definitely should make a best-of thread when things start picking up with her.

I must be doing something incorrectly, says im the only one thre everytime.

When you're there on your own, as I said, try writing :

/server irc.rizon.net
/join #musicbanter

This is to make sure you're on the right server. If that doesn't work, I suggest you read the tutorial again. You probably missed something! Step 3 would be a good place to look. ;)

Connecting now. Will see what's going on.

Yea thrice, I'm on now. You're not here.

Do anybody know how to get IRC for Mac OS X

I don't know it, but you could try ircle! You can read about it and download it from this site -> i r c l e . c o m

The tutorial should still be able to help you. The only information you need to connect is this :

Server : irc.rizon.net
port : 6667 (standard port)
channel : #musicbanter

The commands you need to know to get onto #musicbanter once you've connected to any IRC server are these :

/server irc.rizon.net (if you're on another server, use this to jump to the rizon network)
/join #musicbanter

I'll give it a go

Dead as usual then :(

I'm on all the time and every now and then, I open the program to see if anyone's on. Quite often, I see people who came and left during a minute. It's not a lot of time to discover that there's stuff going on!

But yeah, most of the time it's quiet. We've exhausted all the nasty topics already.

thats usually me, i pop on see if there is any action, i talk to your eWoman and then take off.

Need more idlers who at least continually check the room. Come on people its irc, doesnt slow your computer up much.

Make a minimum post count to be able to gain access to the chat?

Aside from the visitors on the chat mostly being MB members, the chat and the forum are completely and utterly separate. There's no feasible way to do what you're suggesting.

At least none that I can think of.

OoOOoo See i thought you MusicBanter was hosting that. My bad.

Or you could hide the post and only make it visible to people who have lets say a minimum of 150 posts? Would that be possible?

Cory, Jackhammer's point was that if all the discussions take place in the chat, then there will be none going on here on the forums. How are you gonna fix that by making a 150 post limit on getting to the chat? All that does is prevent newbs from chatting.

In any case, so far it's not even a problem.

I know it's not a problem but when theres a will theres a way so it may turn into a problem but im all for the chat room i think this looks cool. :P

It's getting a bit slow there these days .. I had a busy period myself a little while ago which I guess slowed things down a little seeing I'm probably top chatter. :p

Anyways, if you want, you can check out the #musicbanter channel stats (logged by Banter).

!CHANNEL STATS!

(toreidler in the stats is actually the bot "Albert")

I was checking about once a night, Id pop in say hi, minimize it for about 30 mins, get no response then exit out.

Thats stats list it pretty rad.

It's a shame nobody is ever on this.

It's all about AIM now.

I can't download that mIRC thing.

Frickin' Macs.

You're welcome.

The aim MB chat probably gets more action than the IRC channel ever did.

Haha, nooo. Don't bring more people. You know how hard it is going to be to collectively listen to an album now?

Hah, and we couldn't even do that properly last night.

talib 4 lyfe!

Ha! I'm always quiet in there, anyway. A couple of people I invited didn't enjoy the chat. I think it's going to be a faster way to share musica!

I have aim now. pissmeoff128 for those willing to delve into the enigma that is me..