Lots have asked for it, so here you go. I'll try to make myself available for a couple of shots per week for Q&A or whatever ... but they're open 24 hours.

Two options right now:

a Java based board at www.piscatorialpursuits.com/livechat.htm

this is a freebie model I wanted to try upon the advice of Jennie at IFish. If it doesn't crash eveyone's browsers and it gets a lot of use, I'll get a paid ($30/month) version that doesn't have the really annoying animated gifs right where you're reading incoming messages ... jeeez, at least you can scroll down easily past mine!

The second is at: www.piscatorialpursuits.com/chatframes.html

This one is cgi-based and shouldn't crash anything ... not quite as fancy, but sometimes simple works just fine.

I'd appreciate some input on these and please let me know of any bugs!

Hi Bob,
Just visited both chat rooms. I like the one that Jen from ifish is using. Have chatted with them on the old one she had and on the new one. Cool thing with the new one is that you can make it full screen. I just like the look of it compared to the second one that you listed. Glad to see you starting one, the Wednesday night chat sessions are a lot of fun. Two weeks ago there must have been 30 people chattin', the screen was moving so fast you could hardly keep up. Even had Tony Floor from WDFW and Clancy Holt on for a while.
Good luck and tight lines, Jeff

I like the java version the best. Its cleaner and alot easier to read and follow.

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Ryan S. Petzold
aka
Sparkey and/or Special

My vote goes to the java version format. But we need more traffic. No one was there to chat with.

My vote is JAVA!

definatly the Java-----------the other is way to weird

Another for java;is this site gonna have a chat live night? Maybe a nightly or certain days(after 7PM) for live chats for fishing reports,news,events and etc....to keep us fisherman and woman up to date on daily news.

Thanks for the nods one way or another ... one user emailed me and said it didn't work with his machine running Windows ME ... is anybody else runnning this platform and having trouble, or if you haven't checked it and you are running ME, please try it and let me know. Since Java seems to be the choice, I'll do some more digging and see what I can find for alternatives there. Chat software is very expensive if I opt to buy one w/o any ads, so I'll probably look at the interest and decide where to go from there!

I do plan on having a one-night a week deal where I'll host a live chat (the room will always be open for those that want to do their own) ... I'll take any feedback as to what night that would be best. I think Jennie at IFish does heres on Wednesdays, and as we have a lot of crossover visitors, we should probably opt for another night.

More info coming soon!

[This message has been edited by Bob (edited 02-14-2001).]

Bob,

I'm using Windows ME on my notebook. Just logged onto both chat options and entered a test message. No problem with either one.