Can somebody explain Live Chat these days?

I have not stopped in chat lately because I didn't think it was working. I kept seeing guest or unknown user names show up and stay there. Can I tell at a glance if anyone is really there without opening chat? Is the scroll over pop up any reflection of who is in chat?

More history than today. Several years ago Chat frequently had several people on it sometimes. A few complained that Chat frequently logged them off automatically. The techs, (FYI: they are in Australia) took it to heart, and tried to fix it. They also took the sounds out of Chat. The door opening and closing and the Doink of someone inputting a line. Chat does not automatically log people out anymore. Because of the lack of sounds, Chat is much harder to use. That is, used to be, people would log in, if no one was there, the individual could go off and surf somewhere until the Live Chat sounds told them they had company.

Our forum sponsor decided they did not want to pay the techs a bunch of money to keep working on Live Chat. No one seems to feel that returning sound to Live Chat is of much importance. Surely the sponsor, cpap.com owners do not want to spend more money on techs changing Live Chat again. It is possible that some folks complained that someone was rude to them on Live Chat, and our sponsor did not intend the forum to be a bad experience. I know that some came to Live Chat did not grasp the concept of several lines of conversation going on at the same time, and did not type fast enough to feel they were being allowed to participate.

In any case, most questions should be placed on the forum, to get the advice of several people. Rather than the few on the Live Chat.

In my opinion, Chat was killed by a lack of a Doink sound.

I'm surprised they still have it as an option. Lost souls go there on a regular basis and think there are people actually watching.

Example:
I remember using it an a regular basis 8 years ago..

kteague wrote:I have not stopped in chat lately because I didn't think it was working. I kept seeing guest or unknown user names show up and stay there. Can I tell at a glance if anyone is really there without opening chat? Is the scroll over pop up any reflection of who is in chat?

there's a growing irc chat available, there's not always anybody there.

instructions from krelvin linked below.

I believe this is what PailRider was refereing to .. in the comment at the bottom of the post :

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=103504&view=unread#p973404

or you can also install a chat client like "Pidgin" : http://pidgin.im/

and use that to chat in many different chatting formats, aol, msn, yahoo, etc.

if you join the chat with the first link , .... you can get instruction to use Pidgin there

The CPAPTALK chat seems to always show 7- 10 people are chatting.

must be high level discussions going on

grayghost4 wrote:I believe this is what PailRider was refereing to .. in the comment at the bottom of the post :

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=103504&view=unread#p973404

or you can also install a chat client like "Pidgin" : http://pidgin.im/

and use that to chat in many different chatting formats, aol, msn, yahoo, etc.

if you join the chat with the first link , .... you can get instruction to use Pidgin there

if you just want to use irc, I've heard some good things about hexchat: https://hexchat.github.io/ it's free, and supposed to be nice, though I haven't used it myself.