I feel as if it'd encourage more interaction. People will still post their serious topics wherever. The shoutbox is just for laid back, light conversational fun.phytrix wrote:I won't leave my thoughts on this as I know there are a lot of intricacies (forum size, deferring away from posting actual content, etc.), but I will say that it is extremely easy to implement as my contribution to this thread. :3
There's a lot more to it then that, they were just some examples. More would include increased server load, (if it's not active enough,) an inactive shoutboxes looks sloppy and deters users, difficult to moderate. I've seen some past studies (I can't cite) that suggested that small forums do lose forum activity, so I'm not really sure what criteria to contribute to that, but it might. And still, the smaller discussions are always good to increase forum activity. Anyway yeah, I haven't touched forum schematics in years, so I'll walk away *moonwalks out*Echo wrote:I feel as if it'd encourage more interaction. People will still post their serious topics wherever. The shoutbox is just for laid back, light conversational fun.phytrix wrote:I won't leave my thoughts on this as I know there are a lot of intricacies (forum size, deferring away from posting actual content, etc.), but I will say that it is extremely easy to implement as my contribution to this thread. :3
So harshCrispex wrote:Shoutboxes are bad and you should feel bad.
That one got me right in the feels Crispex.
He means, "We at UEGA have decided not to implement such a live chat due to increased server costs, code complications and also lack of time for other forum features while we introduce cat emoticons."aydun wrote:cbf
