I don't know if this has been mentioned before, sorry if it has. I think a live chat feature would be good so that everyone who is online can talk to each other.
Just an idea
Indeed 'twas mentioned several times many moons ago and, if I remember right, things like MS or AOL Chat services and similar were seen to be already in use and preferred. I doubt it's a feature which can be added to TM at the moment.
From a development and resourses standpoint it's a pretty big deal in my experience.
Most people who want to be contacted have an msn or aim account in their profile anyway, and in my experience are always more than happy to chat to other magicians.
(Out of the 16 or so people showing up online on my list right now for example, 7 are magicians)
I also had a chat room set up for here for a while too, but in the most part it was never really used so I shut it down. If it's something people think they would actually use I can set it up again.
Well I'd definately use it, there's five of us here who seem keen. Maybe there are others? We could do a poll on the forum somewhere and if it didn't get enough support then no harm, no foul.
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