Lunata[rium] :

We have not forgotten about Lunata. We've just had some major setbacks.

*Lack of money.

*Crappy laptop that finally DIED

*Moving to a new apartment.

We'll be back  in action, hopefully next month. We'll see. We're shopping for a new laptop so Georgie can join the fun. (I'm so selfish and I demand so much of his RP time in the chatroom).

Next subect:

Perfect Strangers.

What is this tab about?

This is a commemorative piece for a dear friend of mine, Celestina "Giggles" Mercado. A lovely soul, sadly, the victim of Domestic Violence.

She's still with us but I miss her humor and the long chats we'd have in the middle of the night. I hope she can wake up some day soon. We'll be here to cheer her on, that's for sure.

ParaChat wasn't working out very well. It had some great features but the bad once outweighed the good. For example, the room would not notify an user if they had reached the maximum number of characters allowed and so a message was often truncatated and the only one who noticed was the typor.. that is if he noticed.

So we did away with ParaChat and introduced Freechat which is an java-based iirc chatroom. This room doesn't have all the cool features that ParaChat had; such as smiley faced icons, username icons, music and voice chat. The most important features that had us change our minds for this particular chatroom were this:

*Chatroom registration so the room is only accessible to Lunata[rium]

*Admin tools so if someone gets out of place the person in charge can kick out a person and even ban them if necessary.

*When an user reaches the maxim characters allowed for a message, his computer makes a sound (like a beep or a bird chirping, depending on what you have your computer to set up to do).

*Private Messages (pms) are still a feature. The only bad thing about *this* is that if you don't have the pms set to 'float' they'll block up whatever it is you're typing. (You'll have to click on the X at the top-right hand corner to close it)

So now.. how to register your 'nickname' or username in iirc?

you type the following code into the messenger after logging in:

/msg NickServ register [password] [email]

** example : /msg NickServ register pass23341 whodafuck@someemail.com

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The overhaul in the way that the pages loaded into the website was a must due to the chatroom. The room is a bit slow to load and it was freezing if the room wasn't fully loaded and a person wanted to visit another page of the site. Because of this, we moved the blog to the front of the home page. After all, the blog has important messages about the website so, why not make it the home page?

Other pages got shifted around so they flow better as well.

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Now I forgot what else I was going to say. Have a good day folks!

Well, it all started with the fact that I got tired of playing on forums alone. I craved something, something old yet new and totally exciting; the chatroom. And then I realized that yahoo chatrooms just suck, aol sucks even more and well.. we wanted our own room.

So it took a bit of digging around but I finally found ParaChat and with ParaChat I found Webs and that is how Lunata[rium] got revived in this new format.

I love this. I can't wait to get more traffic around here.