Please don't shoot me down if this idea is unworkable. Just a lot of us in the forums started out in chat and I think would still be open to having a space to chat for that immediacy but in that collective public space. I know when I started there was a noguest room but there is very little as a barrier to becoming a member in the first place. Was wondering if it would be possible to set up a room for forum regulars with such inclusion based on number of posts as well as a number of months having elapsed since you first signed up as an FCN member. I think if it is possible technically then it would be a successful addition.
I started out in chat myself but "home" is the forums. And I did use noguest but saw it die a death due to lack of participation and numbers too. As for your idea, it's an interesting one and probably worth some debate or suggestion at least. Personally, I rarely use chat these days because they're geared to one thing not a place to simply pass some innocent time. And yes, I know its a sexually oriented site...
Also if not possible to make access automatic then it could be simply that the regular simply asks a mod to grant them access to use the rule and they can make decision based on the set inclusion criteria Understand @Silk-BG but by same token that would happen with PMs and not within the wider public space but at least it would be devoid of all that added madness in the open chat rooms, am not saying it would be perfect but at least it would give a space for a chin wag which you don't really get within the forum threads themselves. Also off site there are regs now using apps which give private room/group functionality which allows them to do just that. Furthermore it you have other iterations for LGBT to give more of a safe space because at the moment all I need to do to circumvent the gender lock is create a new member profile and I can jump in. I just feel FCN might be missing out on a trick that's all.
#TheLounge will suit your purpose. Certain spammy things are filtered in that channel and barely anybody uses it. You could totally take over that room. Channel permissions based on users' stats would require a specialized API, which someone would have to code--doubt will ever happen. Various iterations of #LGBT existed (I created and later killed all of them) and they never worked. They all become dick forests. I'm basically expanding on this: Because similar requests never end and some of us are tired of them.
What about a little 'chat box' on the top of the forum main page ? Where only registered members could chat. There are a lot of forums with that. And we could chat among 'forum people', which is hard to do on the differents chat rooms. Just a thought. And sorry if it had alrealdy been suggested.
Maybe owners will consider it in the future. Who knows. Meanwhile, you can resize two different windows side-by-side, one for chat, one for forums—they'll behave like mobile screens once resized so (this applies to PC users only).
No. Not all regular users want to stay logged in and some users might want to get to know forums users before registering.
Cams should automatically start rolling when entering the Cam Chat. EDIT: Give a big warning first, of course.
What does that have to do with this thread? And how would that not be invasion of privacy and violation of videotaping laws?
Also nobody is obligated to show themselves on cam. Some like the anonymity and some like to keep their safety and privacy