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Client chat per sub-board

Sir ArmaMalum·8/7/2014, 3:12:54 PM·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

Daen8/7/2014, 3:43:37 PM1 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)
Hyrum Graff8/7/2014, 3:51:16 PM1 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).