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The Members Only Lounge

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Posted on Oct 7 2011 by Calista

……is now open for business.

If you are a member and click on the “members” link anywhere on the site it will now ask you to log in and give you access to the usual member links (webpage manager, profile editor, etc) but also room leader tools like the pulldown generator and editor. You’ll also have access to a shortcut to every room on imaginechat (except private rooms for now) with our member’s backdoor. On the list of rooms, you’ll be able to log into the Members Only Lounge by virtue of being a member of the site.

This will get you access to the Members Only avatar auction coming on October 26th.
For a full list of imaginechat.com Anniversary events, check the schedule here:
Schedule


  Tags: chat rooms, imagineChat, innovations, lounge, members, membership, Site Related Category: Site Related, imagineChat

Five Freakin’ Years, People!

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Posted on Oct 7 2011 by Calista

Back in September of 2006, imaginechat opened it’s brand new squeaky doors.
In October of 2006, we had our grand opening.

That’s five years ago!
It’s been 11 years since I began Dark World by Night over on Buddha’s server.

That’s a lot of role playing and chatting.

This month we are doing a lot of celebrating.

We started out by holding a public avatar auction that went smashingly well thanks to the Auction Staff :
-PII
-genni
-dawiccankitten
-Holiday
-Chaoslight
-Malice

And the Av Donaters:
Chaoslight
Malice
Nine
Revolution
PII
V
Fae
Fatalist
Jesse
Gabby
Ali
Gennifairy
T-bird

Our schedule of events (so far) is:

October 1 – 8

Oct. 1: DCD Costume Contest begins

Oct. 1 – 3: Chat-a-thon in the Queen City

October 9 – 15

Calista’s Roleplay Event – Date and Info TBA

October 16 – 22

Oct. 15 - The Great Pumpkin Design Contest begins

Oct. 19 – Trivia Night, Round 1

Oct. 21 – Trivia Night, Round 2

October 23 – 29

Oct. 23: DCD Costume Contest ends

Oct. 24: DCD Costume Contest judging

Oct. 26: Members Only Designer Auction

Oct. 27: SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY POPULAR FICTION WRITER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Name to be announced! -weg-)

Oct. 28 -The Great Pumpkin Design Contest ends and creations are displayed

October 30 – 31

Oct. 31: DCD Costume Contest – winners announced!

*Trivia Night, Round 3 – Winner Take All – Date TBA

This Schedule can be found on our forums and will be updated there: http://www.imaginechat.com/forum/index.php?topic=7922.0


  Tags: anniversary, events, imagineChat, site events, Site Related Category: Site Related, imagineChat

Long Overdue Entry!

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Posted on Oct 7 2011 by Calista

Man I have been seriously slacking in the blog department.

There’s going to be 2-3 entries today, so keep up!

First, in case anyone missed it, IC’s own Michael (tech guy extraordinaire) has added a pulldown editor for room leaders.
This is available to anyone who runs any kind of room on imaginechat.com- private rooms, personal rooms or public rooms.
If you have a room here and haven’t yet received instructions on how to access the new room leader tools, PM me or michael on the imaginechat forums here: http://www.imaginechat.com/forum/index.php

This is just the beginning. Michael and I have a lot of plans and goodies for you all coming up…including..
(see next entry!!!)


  Tags: chat, chat rooms, innovations, private property, Site Related Category: Site Related, imagineChat

Innovations @ imaginechat.com

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Posted on Feb 13 2011 by Calista

Holy New Shit Batman!

michael has been busy doing stuff again!
(Yes, still working on the pulldown editor and when it is done it will be teh awesome!)

But this was just…..child’s play for him, so he went ahead and got it set up for us.

FIRST is a mod we added to the message board: The Ultimate Profile.
Working in conjunction with your member’s “I”con (the “i” next to your name on the whochat), when people click on your profile, there’s a WHOLE LOT MORE info there.

Quote from: m i c h a e l on February 12, 2011, 09:21:20 PM
I just installed a modification on the board called “Ultimate Profile”, which allows you to include some additional information about yourselves; your interests, things like that. To edit this information, there is a new link called Ultimate Profile when you go to modify your account settings.

In addition, we’ve now enabled Buddy Lists. When you click on someone’s profile, you should see a little icon to add that person to your buddy list. They will get a PM asking to confirm, and then like that, bam, you’re buddies! Smiley

There are certain parts of the ultimate profile that you can only allow your buddies to see, things like that.

Let us know if you run into any problems!

The NEXT thing we’ve added is an extra roomy text bar in the chatroom. It’s in testing phase now, so only Kyaria & the Stadium (Gor Section) have it installed. You can click to add more lines to the text bar.

Also coming (this is in testing phase) is the ability to one click add italics, bold & breaks. (Keep your eyes open for the adorable little graphics by Daz! -sweet!) And…if you use firefox or other browsers with built in spellcheckers, the spellchecking will now be available in your text box!

(By the way? Michael also fixed it that if you type more text than the chatware will allow you to post, it will stop you before you go to far!)

So…..yay for innovations and thank you michael and Daz!

For now, the new text bar is only in those three rooms listed.
After a week or two (after everyone’s had a chance to look at the rooms and test it out and we’ve got any bugs worked out) the new text bar will go live in all the rooms.

Enjoy!

Kyaria: http://www.imaginechat.com/rooms/medieval/kyaria
The Stadium: http://www.imaginechat.com/rooms/gorean/stadium


  Tags: chat, chat rooms, imagineChat, innovations, profiles, role play, Site Related Category: Site Related, imagineChat

Share the Love in February

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Posted on Feb 13 2011 by Calista

For the second year in a row, February is “Share the Love” month at imaginechat.com.

This month only, we will be offering special goodies to our chatters.

1) imaginechat.com loves: new people!

If you have been a member of imaginechat.com in the past or if you’ve never been a member of imaginechat.com- here’s your chance to find out what it’s like.
Email imaginechat2006@msn.com with “Share The Love” in the subject box and let me know your username for the site (the one you use to log into the rooms in the pop up box) and in 24 hours you will be the proud owner of a three month trial membership at imaginechat.com. This will give you access to our member webspace where you can host avatars & webpages and other simple files.

2) imaginechat.com loves: moving day!

If you have a room on another site and you’d like to move, but you just don’t have the funds: February is the month to do it.
Email imaginechat2006@msn.com with “Share The Love” in the subject box and let me know your username for the site (the one you use to log into the rooms in the pop up box) and the name of the room you will be moving and you will receive a free three month trial membership at imaginechat.com! Upload your room’s entrance pages & information into your new memberspace and post your request to the support board. Give us 24 hours and we’ll get you settled in to your new home at imaginechat.com including moderator rights to your room!

3) imaginechat.com loves: existing members!

If you are a current member of imaginechat.com, if you renew your membership this month- you get another membership to give to a sweetie or to keep for free! Renew for a year, get another year (of equal value) free! Share the love we have for you with yourself or a friend! Renew as usual and you will be emailed requesting the name of your friend!

This month, there’s a lot of love to go around! Get some and keep your eyes open for more!


  Tags: chat, free memberships, imagineChat, valentine's day Category: Site Related, imagineChat

For Future Reference: Original Concept Rooms

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Posted on Jan 15 2011 by Calista

Hi there!

Over the years, the unwritten rule of html chatrooms has been: though shall not use another person’s original room name and concept.

What that has meant is that if you come to imaginechat.com and request to open Paris By Night – because it’s an existing game through White Wolf Gaming and the name of an actual RT city- no matter if there’s 12 Paris by Nights on 12 different chat sites, I’ll open it for you. No problem.

Now. If you come to me and you want to open Parrot Cove (for example) which is or was open on Alter Realm (which it was) and you are not the person who originally owned the room and came up with the concept, I’m going to turn you down and ask you to find another name and to change the concept to something that is not recognizably the original owner’s work. BUT..if you are Tai Phoon who originally owned Parrot Cove on AR OR Tai Phoon says “Sure, Joe Blow can use my room. I’m passing over the mantle to him” then I WILL open the room.

Make sense?

So here’s the thing.

If you are part of an original room’s concept, be sure that you are listed as a co-owner on the original room request and on the room’s entrance page because that is what I will use as a basis for determining ownership of the concept later.

If you try and open a room from another site that you did not own, I will turn you down (or take the room down when I am given proof of non-ownership).

And as a warning to other sites: If you allow someone who does not own the concept to open an original concept room on your site, I will inform you as soon as I can of the problem and if it is proven and not resolved, I will be in your face.

PS – This does not apply or extend to other sorts of theft. Theft of “powers” or avatars need to be handled by the individuals involved. (Though I won’t object to the victims of this theft ostracizing and outing someone who steals these things if a message board post is made on imaginechat.com as long as they can back up their claim.)


  Tags: chat rooms, Site Related

Happy New Year

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Posted on Jan 3 2011 by Calista

This year, I ran a sale at Thanksgiving offering special deals to join imaginechat.com

At Christmas, I couldn’t see anything benevolent or “special” about asking you to spend money here so I figured the best way to show my appreciation was to give YOU, my imaginechat.com members, a present instead.

In case you missed the email, anyone who was an imaginechat.com member before Christmas 2010 received an extra 3 months on their existing membership.

Thank you all again.

Here’s hoping that 2011 is the best year yet for all of us.


Holiday and Pre-Thanksgiving Sale!

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Posted on Nov 17 2010 by Calista

Hey folks!

It’s been a long time since I’ve run any kind of sale! Mostly because, I’ve got what’s probably the lowest membership prices online right now with the most extras available.

But, the holiday season is upon us and I neglected to do anything special for the site’s birthday this year (we’re four years old now, by the way -w-) so I figured, what the heck!

So….for the next few days (until Thanksgiving), I am offering TWO one year memberships with 25MB webspace to store simple files, and the choice of a a blog, a 5 person private room OR a 10 person personal room for $45 (usually $28/each).

I am also now offering a Colored Name Only membership. It’s for those of you who want to support the site, but do not want or need any of the extras. It WILL however, count towards supporting a room on the site. It’s $20 for a year and I will let the first person who uses the option choose the colour for the whochat. You will be listed as “VIPs”.

I am also offering for a VERY limited time -lifetime (life of the site) memberships. They’re $140 and come with all the benefits currently available and a guarantee to be given all future benefits offered over the life of the site.

All of these options are available on the regular join page: http://www.imaginechat.com/join.shtml

I want to also take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support over the years and especially after the hard summer I’ve personally had. It means a lot to me that you’ve all stood by me and this site even in the “bad times” and I hope I can continue to deserve that kind of loyalty. You’re a great group of people and I am very grateful for you all.

Thanks again!

-Calista


  Tags: chat rooms, imagineChat, memberships, Site Related Category: Site Related, imagineChat

The Main WhoChat Now With Bubble Technology™ :)

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Posted on Nov 17 2010 by Calista

The main whochat which list all public rooms available for role play has now been infused with “Bubble Technology™”.
Each section is now automatically listed in alphabetical order but the busiest room of the section will be in the “prime spot” (upper left hand corner). You can now also toggle whether or not you want to see the subrooms.

Did I mention we’ll be getting MORE features soon?

Keep watching!


  Tags: bubblechat, whochat Category: Site Related, imagineChat

The Bubblechat Gets Better

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Posted on Nov 11 2010 by Calista

Last night Michael and I were up til 2am or so adding new features to the Bubblechat.

1- You can now decide whether or not they want to see subrooms.
2- You can now decide whether they want to see ONLY active rooms, or ALL available rooms.
3- You can now decide whether you want the screen to autorefresh (every 45 seconds) or just refresh it manually.
4- Each room now has a mouse-over that gives you room leader names, the genre of the room and a very brief easy to read description.
5- The site banner rotation has been added to keep you up to date on site events and information.

If you are a room leader and have not given us a description to attach to your room, please see the Announcement board and THIS THREAD to update your room’s link.

Right now, we are going to keep 2 seperate whochats. The BubbleChat and the regular Whochat to give users a choice in how to use and view the site.

I know that we are still waiting on pull down editors for room leaders, but Michael and I (ok, mostly Michael) are working on one now. All of our work is setting the ground work for future improvements. Even the bubblechat is about to be “one-upped” by an idea of Michael’s.

Keep watching. -w-


  Tags: bubblechat, chat, chat rooms, innovations, Site Related, whochat
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