Chat feature?

Forgive if asked before, The forums are large and found no evidence. Is there a feature to chat discreetly with other board members? If I see a piece of gear I have on my want list on someone else's board, the ability to ask their opinion without clogging up forums would be good. However, I understand that with privacy dies transparency.

this has been brought up many times but never implemented apart from the 'chat with the admins' feature on the homepage

hey it would be good to start an irc channel for chat 😄 just saying.

This reminds me. I would like a search bar for the forums, so we can find topics or posts quickly.

But please, make that search bar actually work! I mean, there are way too much forums which have pretty much the same "search bar" option, but when I actually try to search a thing, it gives me a gazillion of options I don't want, it shows me irrelevant content.

Actually, would chat even be worth it? Not to be offensive, but aren't there too few of use to run a chat? ICQ group or anything like that would work!

there are tons of us using other sites and email for chat, particularly while collaborating on music, you just aren't aware of it

Id like the option for what kind of search you want to do on the forum. Maybe even a different search for the whole site or single out the forum. It would be nice to have one option of looking for every matched word in every post or just thread titles. Let's say if we had a 14 page thread going and inside we had a short conversation on Ukuleles but I cannot remember which thread it was, I could do a match word search for "Uke" and have it pull up every uke in every post. Maybe even have it separated the way you guys have the search for bands/artists/items where the posts would be first and the item would be on the right.

Oh, perhaps I'm not aware of it, though. How many of you are in this chat?

there are 3 people talking to me a lot via gmail and music we're working on together is setup in google drive... but I've had conversations outside of EB with a lot of folks from the site over the course of the last year.... I would love to do a chat room on here for this sort of thing so its easier for us all to talk as a big group of musicians

and the chat room should have games like checkers and such. Maybe poker. That would rock.

right now the forum just has pocket hockey

and pool.... and fishing.

Seriously, I would find myself on here even more if I could play Chinese checkers with ya'll

if this site eats up anymore of my time then child protective services will put my son in foster care LOL

This isn't really a bad idea, come to think of it. We're all on and off and only get on when some topic explodes. It'd be cool if we all agreed to meet up at certain times and talked and played... checkers? That game purposely induces claustrophobia.

Anyways, that would be pretty cool :)

yes

How about Texas Hold'em where your your gear IQ is the currency >:)

You could beat someone stupid.

In seriousness though, we could use the game to settle disputes even.

its unfair, absnetwalrus will beat us all on points even thogh he has never woned much of anything

I challenge you lot to several rounds of chess.

I challenge you to WIZARD CHESS!!!!!

...also known as Archon on the NES.

Oh, I found a couple of sites that allow you to play Genesis games online this morning. I played Dune: Battle for Arakis for a bit. Ahhh the memories.

Well seeing that my OP request for someone IT to give us a chat feature has turned into a request for online gaming, can someone please do this that has the savvy.... Using the Pokemon Go! Engine, can someone please give us Pedalboard Go!? You walk around and pedals pop up at locations. To catch them, you have to throw patch cables at them. Pedal stops are ebay sites, where you get random things like more patch cables, 9volts and wall warts to help evolutions and switchers that allow you to prepare combos for venue battles to reduce screen Tap dancing. Instead of gyms, you have venues and you pit your signal chain against others, tapping pedals on and off to songs played with a dry signal instrument similar to guitar hero kind of thing. And instead of choosing a team, you choose a genre so that you know what is playing in the venues before you walk in. When you first start, you mostly find behringer, Harley Benton/joyo and metal zones. Collect 100 metal zones and it can be evolved to a ts8 etc etc....