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The Lit chat?

It does work, but it can only hold 500-750 people at a time.

We are working to find a replacement chat that 1) is stable and can handle lots of chatters, and 2) isn't prohibitively expensive. We haven't found this yet, but are continuing to look.

Sorry for the inconvenience. :rose:
 
CM weighs in

Laurel,

Thank you for the update, and for all your hard work! As a Chat Moderator, it's nice to have something to tell the many Litizens who ask me what's up on a daily basis.

During the chat's sporadic up-periods (usually Pacific Time mornings, on slow weekdays), I've noticed the following cycle (and I have no IT experience, so bear with me):

Chatters are always able to login on the first attempt, and the applet works quickly and correctly. Inevitably, though, the user traffic becomes too much for the chat to handle, and it crashes. Everyone tries to rush back in, along with more chatters just starting a new session, causing a sort of bottleneck. These bottleneck/crash cycles occur more and more rapidly until it seems like the chat just gives up for that day. I don't know what causes it to "reset", but sometimes it's working again early the following morning, and the cycle repeats.

Two quick points:

  1. Auto-boot for inactivity. This feature seems to have been disabled. It was one small way in which the chat could keep a manageable user load, as lurkers would get booted after a few minutes of inactivity. Maybe it could be re-enabled, while you're looking for a new chat service? Every little bit might help!
  2. Maximum capacity. In the peak periods before the chat grinds to a halt, there are around 150 users in the Lobby, and perhaps 100 more scattered between other rooms and private chats. 200-250 total, in other words. None of the other moderators or friends I've spoken to remember seeing 500+ in recent memory. If the applet vendor claims 500-750 capacity, it kinda sounds like we aren't getting our money's worth. :)

Hope this helps. Thank you again for everything, and Happy New Year! :heart:
 
I miss chat soooo much!

Hi Laurel!

Thank you so much for working on this. I am a very very long time Litizen chatter and I miss my fellow Litizens very much. We keep up by email, etc but its just not the same. Over the years, we have become friends and family and we've been looking around but there just isn't anything as awesome as Lit. PLEASE let me know if there is ANYTHING I can do to help get it going again. Thanking you in advance......Emily:rose:
 
Chat was broke 5 years ago when I left. I hope to hell this is a new breakage.
 
Oh okay. In that case, you got plans tonight? 95 or so more posts and you an' me can get freakaaaayyy for the New Year.
 
Heartbreaker_ said:
Laurel,

Thank you for the update, and for all your hard work! As a Chat Moderator, it's nice to have something to tell the many Litizens who ask me what's up on a daily basis.

During the chat's sporadic up-periods (usually Pacific Time mornings, on slow weekdays), I've noticed the following cycle (and I have no IT experience, so bear with me):

Chatters are always able to login on the first attempt, and the applet works quickly and correctly. Inevitably, though, the user traffic becomes too much for the chat to handle, and it crashes. Everyone tries to rush back in, along with more chatters just starting a new session, causing a sort of bottleneck. These bottleneck/crash cycles occur more and more rapidly until it seems like the chat just gives up for that day. I don't know what causes it to "reset", but sometimes it's working again early the following morning, and the cycle repeats.

Two quick points:

  1. Auto-boot for inactivity. This feature seems to have been disabled. It was one small way in which the chat could keep a manageable user load, as lurkers would get booted after a few minutes of inactivity. Maybe it could be re-enabled, while you're looking for a new chat service? Every little bit might help!
  2. Maximum capacity. In the peak periods before the chat grinds to a halt, there are around 150 users in the Lobby, and perhaps 100 more scattered between other rooms and private chats. 200-250 total, in other words. None of the other moderators or friends I've spoken to remember seeing 500+ in recent memory. If the applet vendor claims 500-750 capacity, it kinda sounds like we aren't getting our money's worth. :)

Hope this helps. Thank you again for everything, and Happy New Year! :heart:
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Bottle neck cumming.
 
I completely agree with what Heartbreaker brings up. The chat usually came up pretty fast, and if it didnt it took me about 5-10 from refreshing it by hitting "F5" over and over. Today that is working at all.

As heartbreaker suggest if the auto booting for inactivitiy is disabled it is probably a major factor to messing things up.

I never been on the chat with 500+ people, maybe 300 and then im pushing it.

Another suggestion or idea I have is to make more different rooms, but make them fixed, isntead of users creating more and more rooms. But then again it is nice to be able to make a room for 2 or 3 or what you might need as well.

I think thats it for now. :)
 
just "by the way" this forum is dead anyway and chat probably won't work.

i am currently on 4 chats as i just back from work and 'killing time' while chasing away small flue and chatting ...but ALL 4 chats are dead. like everyone online is drunk/dead from yesterday.......
 
Can we help?

Laurel said:
It does work, but it can only hold 500-750 people at a time.

We are working to find a replacement chat that 1) is stable and can handle lots of chatters, and 2) isn't prohibitively expensive. We haven't found this yet, but are continuing to look.

Sorry for the inconvenience. :rose:
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Thanks Laurel and Heartbreaker for the update.

I don't understand all the grumblers. We have been getting this chat for so long as a free service and it must cost you to maintain it. So a big thank you.

Can we, the users, help you to find a better, more stable platform by donating to a Literotica Chat Building fund of some sort. I'd certainly be happy to, and I am sure some others would too.

Love my Lit Chat hit, and YES, it feels like a big crazy dysfunctional family, but rather nice.

Keep up the good work!
 
Rain_Lover said:
Thanks Laurel and Heartbreaker for the update.

I don't understand all the grumblers. We have been getting this chat for so long as a free service and it must cost you to maintain it. So a big thank you.

Can we, the users, help you to find a better, more stable platform by donating to a Literotica Chat Building fund of some sort. I'd certainly be happy to, and I am sure some others would too.

Love my Lit Chat hit, and YES, it feels like a big crazy dysfunctional family, but rather nice.

Keep up the good work!
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I think that might fundamentally be the problem. Literotica is a rather large website while Literotica Chat isn't, and from the outside looking in it would seem that Lit chat was set up as a novelty and evolved past that in the minds of the owners/operators. Proper maintenance and upgrades just hasn't seem to be high upon the priority list, they bought a new car in 2009 but refused to change the oil. And I think while there is a discussion on getting a new chat, there should be a greater discussion as to what the chat's purpose is here, and how it can benefit the site in general.

And when it comes to the cost of the chat, I am sure that its subsidized by revenues from the main site, however that doesn't seem to be enough anymore. So why doesn't lit, with the consent of the authors, release a collection of short stories to fund any hardware improvements needed? There are just shy of 300,000 stories on lit, you can easily pick twelve of them to sell on amazon as a .99 book. Then you can take that money, give the authors a little bit as a thank you, then pour the rest into improvements around the site. Literotica's chat itself is not a money maker, however it can easily function be a loss leader.

I like lit, I want to see it flourish, but I don't want to see them have such a talented pool of writers who would benefit from exposure as much lit would benefit from advertising for the alternative of simply begging for paypal donations.
 
its good to see that there is (while maybe not a plan) a wish to get lit back working
hopefully sooner than later
 
Laurel said:
It does work, but it can only hold 500-750 people at a time.

We are working to find a replacement chat that 1) is stable and can handle lots of chatters, and 2) isn't prohibitively expensive. We haven't found this yet, but are continuing to look.

Sorry for the inconvenience. :rose:
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As stated elsewhere, perhaps you need to monetize something in Lit to subsidize the free speech forum you have created, which has a life and value of its own?
 
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