So, what can you tell us of a time when you were in the most crowded chatroom of your life?

I think it was the time a couple hundred guys pretended to be Playboy Playmates, and they were teasing the couple hundred guys who represented themselves as lingerie model lesbians. I must’ve counted eleventy kajillion requests for age-sex-location information that night. It was so awesome.

Here on Fluther Ben and Andrew created a new chat room every time there was a merge of new users from other sites to help them adjust and give them a place to find old friends and ask questions. I think one of the biggest groups we had in the new room was when wis.dm shut down and some of their users came to Fluther. We used to have Campfire Talks every week or so and quite a bit of people turned up for those.
Other than the Fluther chat rooms, I’ve never really frequented other chats. My only chat room experience is here and I’d say the biggest group we had in there at once was around 30–40 or so. (Anyone remember? Founders? Mods?)

Some of the bigger rooms on freenode average hundreds or even thousands of people. I used to hang out in #rubyonrails, but it’s too hard to have a conversation or even respond to questions in any meaningful way.