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Old Jul 30, 2004, 07:56 PM
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I am sure that somebody will answer you who actually knows something, but the way I understand it, the chat room is actually a separate program from the rest of the site, and that is why people in chat don't show on who's online and why site PM's don't show up in the chat room. As far as I understand, it would be a pretty complicated maneuver to make the things happen that you are suggesting, although it would really be nice. DocJohn is very talented - maybe he will eventually figure out a way to do just that.

If you are good at multi-tasking, you can be in chat and on the site at the same time. I usually make my chat window long and narrow and give that the left side of the screen, have the rest of the site going on the right side of the screen. But if chat is very active, it's all I can do just to keep up there, and I don't do much with the other side of the screen. So, you don't actually have to leave chat to see who is online. In fact, who's online actually refreshes automatically, so all you have to do is leave that up if you are waiting for someone.
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