With visitors to the site coming from all across America and around the world, I've thought for a while that it would be nice to add a chat room to the site. I ran a poll a while ago about a Flash chat room, and while there wasn't a lot of response, it was overwhelmingly in favor. The Flash chat would have required quite a bit of work for me to completely integrate it into the site, though.
Recently I discovered a mod for this message board system that let me easily integrate a java applet chat room, and it is now installed on the site. Register members who are logged in should see a "Chat" button or link at the top of the pages; when you click on it you will be taken to the chat room and automatically logged in using your member name with the suffix "_3sof".
The chat room is tied into IRC, and when you first log into the chat room, you can double-click on your user name in the list on the right hand side and register the name. members can also access your chat room with any IRC client ( mIRC, pIRC, ircZ, Ircle etc.) The server address is irc.everywherechat.com port 7000 or 6667 (the chat room's name is "threestooges.net", naturally.)
