No, its cool, you can say it. It probably needs to be brought out into the open.
There is a bit of an undercurrent at the moment that Testjes and Pleba are sinking Interference.
I think interference has only been carking it since Edges CD was stolen. Well, that was the first time I remember receiving those error messages.
Elvis said at the time the server was being hit by a lot of outside people and search engines.
Is that not still the case? The long threads have been killed, the journals have been offline, old threads have been semi-archived and the server is still having problems.
I take your point about chat rooms. Believe it or not but Testjes do chat in msn also. Yes, we can talk THAT much lol
I have raised the issue of the interference java chatroom not working (as it turns out you can get in through IRC but the instructions are slightly incorrect) and no one has come back with an answer / pronounced it dead. Admittedly their all busy trying to stop the server from crashing - and so they should.
As for PLEBA. As far as I can see they post links to photos in photobucket etc. ie the photos arent stored on Interference. Does this still drain the server?
Anyway to make a short story long, one of the reasons some of these threads are threads and not chats is because the occupants are internationally diverse and its not feasible for such a wide reach of peoples to be on the net at the same time. Chatrooms only really work if the occupants are all on roughly the same time zone. ie online at the same time.
PS Zoney, none of this is meant as an attack on you or anybody else. I just thought it was a golden opportunity to bring all this to the fore
/serious bit / rant / brain dribble.