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blaine22's avatar

Why does no one go to the chat section?

Asked by blaine22 (145points) August 25th, 2021

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kritiper's avatar

If no one is there and I have nothing to just chat about, what is the point?? I have other things to do besides sit around waiting for someone else to just come along. And there are people there from time to time, you just have to catch them when they’re “in.”

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filmfann's avatar

Also, it has a history of being a bear trap. Once you enter, it won’t let you leave.

Mimishu1995's avatar

@kritiper is right. Everyone here has a life outside of Fluther. No one has that much time to stay in the chatroom all day.

KNOWITALL's avatar

My suggestion is to invite someone you enjoy talking to there. Many of us don’t just go there and hang out alone…that would be weird. :)

Zaku's avatar

Hey, for the first time in years (IIRC), someone ( @Mimishu1995 ) actually responded to something I wrote in chat, before it scrolled away.

Kropotkin's avatar

It just doesn’t work very well.

It usually lists people as being there when they’re not, because you have to click leave room to not show, but I expect I and others usually just close the browser window, and they end up “idle”.

A Discord or even IRC channel would be better to hang out in and chat in real time.

Zaku's avatar

It also only keeps so many lines of text, and it wastes most of them on stuff like:

Zaku entered the chat at 3:52am
Zaku left the chat at 3:53am

Which makes it pretty hard to even communicate forum-style.

jca2's avatar

I never understood the point of chat rooms. To me, if I want to communicate with someone, even if we only know each other from a website (not phone numbers or email), why not just use pm?

Mimishu1995's avatar

@jca2 I think you are more familiar with chatting one-on-one. Some people can take on communication in chat rooms.

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