First off, I would love to say I really like the flash chat on this site.
A couple of things bother me as an end user though...
1. Sometimes people are in chat without posting on the chat request thread.
2. Sometimes people post in the chat request thread and leave 1 minute after joining, so I join and its empty or I have to go to the thread, and go to the info.php page to see if anyone is in.
I really dont like that I have to do the following just to see if someone is in the chat and talk to them:
go to spudfiles.com, then click forum, then click website discussion, then click chatroom requests, then click the info link, then click log into chat, then type login info if I'm not already logged in.
Now I admit that its not really that much work to do this, but I thought of a way to simplify the process a little bit.
On the Main page (www.spudfiles.com), there is room on the right column, enough room in fact to add an area where you can see the list of names of the users currently logged into the chatroom. Enough area where it would not clutter up the main page either.
It would be like the info.php page but embedded right onto the homepage.
It would be right below the search and welcome boxes on the right column of the site.
This is what I am thinking it would look like:
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9808 ... ewchat.jpg
You could even have a link in that box to join the chat if you wanted...
