Theme Park Review Announces "Coaster Chat - 24/7"

[robbalvey]

Hey everyone!

 

So the tests we did with the new chat room seem to be working GREAT! Thanks to everyone for your help and support. To enter the chat room, simply click on the "Chat Room!" link above.

 

Now that the chat room is an official added feature of the boards, we would like to share our plans for it:

 

- Chat open 24/7: One of our goals was to have a place that people could chat anytime they wanted to, not just at scheduled chat times. Of course, that doesn't always mean that a lot of people will be in the chat room at the any specific time, but it's a place where people could meet up that's always open.

 

- Scheduled chats: I think it would be a good idea to have a 'reoccuring scheduled chat' so that everyone knows there is are specific times where they can talk to other members of the board. I am going to suggest Sundays and Wednesdays at 6:00pm PDT for starters, and see how that goes.

 

- Special Events: Either during trips or other events I think it would be fun to do 'live trip reports' where we can give updates from a trip we were on, or a media event we are at, etc.

 

Please feel free to post any ideas or comments you have about the chat room. And remember, the conversations in the chat room are only as good or bad as you make them! So if there is silence...SAY SOMETHING! Sometimes the most random comment can spark a great conversation!

 

And most importantly...HAVE FUN!!!

 

--Robb

[blackcurrent]

If you guys have any organised chats can you please post the time in Europe for us. I can never work out what time it is in Cali. You know us Europeans are so slow...

[robbalvey]

Ok, everyone I have turned this topic into a chat.

 

Obviously by now, everyone probably knows about the chat room. So far, it seems to be a hit! There's always at least 10-15 people in it during peak times, and we've had it up to 25 already too!

 

The chat IS open 24/7 but I thought it would also be a good idea to set some scheduled 'general chat' times too, that way people know they can come to the room at a specific time and expect there to be some good solid discussion going on.

 

I picked Wednesday and Sunday at 6:00pm PDT because Wednesday is a good 'middle of the week' day where not much is usually going on, and Sunday might be good if people were at parks that weekend and want to come home and tell people about it.

 

What do you think? Are these good days and times to do it?

 

Perhaps we should add a day in there for the European readers too? Like a 12:00noon PDT which is 20:00 in the UK?

 

--Robb "Please give us your feedback so we can make the site better!" Alvey

[PhishyBrewer]

Party on Wayne! Party on Garth!