Just found this cool little website, don't know if any of you have seen it before. Basically, you add gabbly.com/ in front of any website address and it opens up a little chat room where you can talk to other people who might be on the site. So for this website, the link would be http://gabbly.com/forums.abrsm.org. So we can chat to each other. Give it a go if you want.

Cute
But, forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, are we not already in an internet chat room?!

I can't get it to work!!

Too bad... we are having fun in there

Thanks trebor!

Thanks Trebor

Anyone else want to join in?

It's just opening the forum webpage for me.

Wait a little and a small chatroom will appear .

Few things I've learnt:
-It won't work if you're using Opera.
-You can read what was said for some time before you entered chatroom, so don't insult people thinking they can't read it
-You can be impersonated, so be careful
-You can browse forums in background, but don't use the refresh button

Other than that it seems a very nice little widget

It doesn't like firefox, either.

It's working fine in mine. Are you using the latest version (FF 1.5)

I've got firefox and it's ok with me.

that's strange. I'm pretty sure i'm up to date. And I got a message saying that the platform didn't support firefox. I think I'll have another go.

Same here

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I've got a feeling something like this could kill a forum...

Maybe the novelty will wear off.
Good if you want quick answers though

It is, and it's a great idea, I agree!

The messages on the forum are, well, more permanent on the forum than on 'gabbly'. Agree with sbhoa, it's useful if you want quick answers.

you giving it a try barry?

It might just curtail CISD. Or perhaps not.

is it just my computer, but on the forum page behind the gabbly thingy, its VERY slow...

I've had a very quick look - it's quite useful - but if the forum's busy and gabbly's busy, it may be difficult to follow. I'll use it occasionally.

It moves a bit too quickly for me and my keyboard...

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It seems really slow, can't be bothered...

is anyone actually talking on there at the moment? i seem to be talking to myself and i feel lonely... *sniffle*

Go to the forum board index (list of topics).

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There are three of us, but you're not there at the mo, deviless.

The what? i'm soo confused....

If you know someone's on the forum/gabbly, and you want an answer to something quickly, as I said before, then it's useful. But generally, and probably much to Mr Bouffant's pleasure , I'll continue to use CISD for chat!

Why not use both? I am.

HELP!! CE I don't understand!! and it's scaring me because i'm usually very good with computers...

See above answer Andante. I guess it'll take a bit of getting used to....

I'll visit the gabbly area occasionally.

I've now had a more decent play around with gabbly. To all intents and purposes, it's a chatroom not unlike MSN and the like. Relatively easy to use, and a useful little addition to the forum.

Go to http://forums.abrsm.org

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I wouldn't worry about it killing the forum. Every board I use has a chatroom. It's a different experience using chat from using boards. It usually enhances rather than damages boards, and often produces more activity.

Most of the queries that we post, or conversations we have aren't suited to simultaneous chat. For example, if I have a guitar query, there are maybe four people on the board who can answer it. I'm not going to do that in a chatroom, because there's minimal chance of any of those people being online at the same time as me.

Simultaneous chat is much more about chit chat.

Very eloquently put meerkat.

I think the gabbly site and the forum are more likely to run concurrently rather than gabbly 'taking over' the forum board.

but no one posts guitar queries on CISD, will that thread go away now?

What a fun idea!

& I agree with meerkat, in my experience this won't kill a forum.

not quite my point.

but i really doubt it. They serve different functions. Go to any board with live chat, and you'll see that generally, there's still plenty of chit chat.

You may find that things slow down for a day or two on teh chit chat threads, but it won't last.

Bumping this cos I for one had forgotten about it.

*wonders when she went on hiatus from here* I swear I was still here in August, hmmm how come i missed this thread?

Oops, I Alt +F4d!!!

~Wobby~

I may have black hair on the surface but I am such a blonde.



Read that and guess what the first thing I did was?



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Yep.

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~Wobby~

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Gabbly's gone dead...

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Party...?

*is soo tempted to go on...*