So far chat makes themobile site go down or make it so those of us who only have smartphones to get on get shut out. Worse, if I'm logged in on droid, can't get in from a computer till it gets fixed. Happened twice so far, carter was working on it
I never really used the chat feature that much... but it seems like it is pretty popular. The thing is, whenever I looked at it, nobody was on? I think I went in there one time and there was a total of 3 people. That was cool and I got to chat with some members. If it comes back, I'll have to take a closer look at it and chat with some of you guys!
It's difficult to explain. On a mobile device, no matter what theme you use the chat will try to load. If there is an error with the chat it won't load the forum. This also happens with the IPS app you can download from your app store. The problem with the chat is that I have no control over it. I can enable and disable it, and that's about it. It's hosted on IPS's own servers so I can't make any changes to it.
If the chat is enabled and I'm logged in on my droid when it happens, I can't get on anywhere. At all. Tried it from other computers and it tries to load the messed up mobile site since that's what I was last logged in on.