Client chat per sub-board

Sir ArmaMalum·Aug 7, 2014·1 votes·531 views

With the current tweaking of client chat, the client itself and the Board's.....boards, what is the community's thoughts on creating a chatroom per board? There is already a chatroom of sorts for Boards Feedback, but if we had a seperate chat for say, e-sports and another for Skin & Champion Concepts that could be visited to talk in a more immediate fashion about posts and people there?

I say this now because features connecting the two can probably be looked into now, what with the two sides being very much in flux right now. Imagine a chatroom allowing you to click a name and look at their forum profile, or allow for easy (not mile-long URL) comment links in the chat or even chatroom embedding into an OP, for example.

However, what with the client chat upgrading being somewhat in-progress, maybe we can think of ways to include chatrooms into the Boards as a direct or indirect interaction? I feel like it's a relatively untapped resource that can have features added to make the forum-side discussion better.

7 Comments

DaenAug 7, 20141 votes

From my experience it's a mixed bag, and I'll explain why:

Pros

Allows for faster and easier discussion
Doesn't require use of the Boards
It's easier to dive into a discussion via the client

Cons

If you have two distinct discussion areas for the same purpose, one or both of those areas will usually lose activity.
A chat room doesn't preserve conversation or organize it in any useful way
Oversaturation within the chat rooms once the Boards community grows
Segmentation of the community in multiple directions (Boards split from client chat rooms, each client chat room split from the others)

Sir ArmaMalumAug 7, 20141 votes

Understandable, and I agree on your breakdown.

However, what with the client chat upgrading being somewhat in-progress, maybe we can think of ways to include chatrooms into the Boards as a direct or indirect interaction? I feel like it's a relatively untapped resource that can have features added to make the forum-side discussion better.

This can range from simple things like being able to invite a single person forum-side into a client-side private chat if they're online, or maybe later down the road make chatrooms specifically for say....player mods for each Board to discuss certain posts and actions.

DaenAug 7, 20141 votes

This can range from simple things like being able to invite a single person forum-side into a client-side private chat if they're online, or maybe later down the road make chatrooms specifically for say....player mods for each Board to discuss certain posts and actions.

This I agree with, as these suggestions are relatively specific functions that don't overlap with the main system (the Boards).

Hyrum GraffAug 7, 20141 votes

However, what with the client chat upgrading being somewhat in-progress, maybe we can think of ways to include chatrooms into the Boards as a direct or indirect interaction? I feel like it's a relatively untapped resource that can have features added to make the forum-side discussion better.

This. Edit your OP to reflect this, and you have my upvote.

Hyrum GraffAug 7, 20141 votes

Given Daen's post, what if a "Create a thread from this chat" feature were the sole addition?

You'd pick a comment to be the OP, then everything below that would become comments.

Personally I don't like this very much, because I like that there's no record of chat room chats (plausible deniability).

DaenAug 7, 20141 votes

Even doing that, there would be a lot of totally off topic comments and the OP would be limited to x number of characters.

Hyrum GraffAug 7, 20141 votes