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tech · 09/03/2005 00:21

We are going to start "retiring" threads in the _chat topic once they are over 30 days old.

What this means is that once they are 30 days old (since last contribution rather than since starting) you won't be able to add messages to them any more - they'll still be in the archive search, they just won't have the "add a message" box at the bottom, and they won't be in the thread lists under the topic. This list is at over 8500 entries currently and becoming useless.

If archive searching starts to slow down, we might start deleting chat threads from the board altogehter after a certain time. As the content of these threads tends to be chats (surprisingly enough) rather than requests for information, there's not a huge amount of point keeping them for future reference.

On the subject of chat, we are currently test-driving chatroom software with a view to putting a live chatroom up on the site - for them as wants.

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Marina · 09/03/2005 10:17

Not keen on a chatroom personally and won't use it - also often have to say, "no, not a chat-room" when recommending Mumsnet.
But if people want it and someone like Lou is prepared to moderate it so that unhelpful, abusive talk is excluded, then fine.
I am really fed up as a mod with having to mail links to nasty threads to MNHQ, only to see another one has sprung up like a toadstool five minutes later. I find that side of the site really at the mo.

HardcoreEnid · 09/03/2005 10:19

ahem...the reviews??

Marina · 09/03/2005 10:19

You volunteering to help collate, Enid?

CountessDracula · 09/03/2005 10:22

I will NOT continue to post on a site with a chatroom. Simple.

There are other sites out there without chatrooms.

HardcoreEnid · 09/03/2005 10:22

I have volunteered!! Ages ago! But nothing yet.

Anteater · 09/03/2005 10:25

But do the people who use MN have any say? I would say not(?) The introduction of photos and now a chat room imo change the basic site ethos.

anorak · 09/03/2005 10:25

I also fear that people may become nasty. They are in other chatrooms.

As the site stands now if anyone says anything nasty their remarks stand and they must defend them. I can imagine now the 'she said this' 'oh no I didn't' type of arguments that would ensue if we had a chat room.

I don't like the idea.

Anteater · 09/03/2005 10:26

I also offered help with the reviews..

psychomum5 · 09/03/2005 10:27

Its not a requirement that you go into a chatroom, or post photos - it is just extra choice for those who do want those things... lots of people can have the things they want rather than just some when there are limited options.

HardcoreEnid · 09/03/2005 10:27

then why not an ignore feature

AnnieQ · 09/03/2005 10:28

But if people want to use a site with chatrooms, surely there are plenty of them out there? One of the thins I like about MN is that it's not like your average site with chatrooms.

psychomum5 · 09/03/2005 10:29

like the 'ignore feature' thought

HardcoreEnid · 09/03/2005 10:29

give it time...

mummytosteven · 09/03/2005 10:29

what about a compromise - keep a chatroom off the MN site and out of MN control/responsibility, but if people want to do it privately, set up a MSN group open to all MNetters which includes a chatroom?

HardcoreEnid · 09/03/2005 10:29

good idea

anorak · 09/03/2005 10:30

I agree that you don't have to go into a chatroom. However I feel certain that what is said in any such chatroom will spill over into the conversations on the threads. I don't want to have everything tempered with arguments no one can refer back to.

psychomum5 · 09/03/2005 10:31

actually I belong to groups with chatrooms, and obviously MN....I don't think it would change things here.....you just don't go into the chatroom if you don't want to.

and....it should be a requirement that any arguements should NOT go onto the threads board!

WideWebWitch · 09/03/2005 10:31

lol at enid's new name! I really think it'll attract some weirdos. Do it and you'll see

HardcoreEnid · 09/03/2005 10:31

very good point

HardcoreEnid · 09/03/2005 10:31

anoraks point I mean

SoupDragon · 09/03/2005 10:31

Why does it matter if there is a chat room alongside the normal threads though?

Anteater · 09/03/2005 10:31

Probably not a bad thing... might get some work done for a change.

Must say tho' its nice to be a little bit involved with things when they are at the top of their game.. and Mumsnet has been great for the last two years. But all good things come to an end, for one reason or other, what a shame.

HardcoreEnid · 09/03/2005 10:32

www - then I can change name to 'IToldYouSo'

anorak · 09/03/2005 10:34

So you think you can tell people not to discuss what's happened in the chatroom on the threads, and they will obey???

psychomum5 · 09/03/2005 10:34

It's not a shame for things to change....it's called things changing and growing.

If it doesn't work, they can always take the option away!

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