Josh -- I really hope you do this, as it would simplify access. For example, is the current off-site chatroom Mibbet? Mebbit?? You see the problem. It would be lovely to have an in-house link.
Thanks.

A chat room is certainly a welcome addition, if time-leeching. Are you still planning to have it open for events only, or at all times? (Add one vote for latter.)

A few points in no particular order:

* Using existing logins is the best option, go with that at all costs.

* Do the simplest thing possible: it is much better than the non-working fancy version.

* If at all possible, avoid Flash and Java (in that order of avoidance.)

* Try to ensure that the solution works for Linux-, BSD- and other UNIXy users. Standard web stuff is the simplest way to achieve this.

* Provide more than one channel or "room" but, say, a maximum of 5 or so. No private channels.

* Have bells & whistles like graphical emoticons etc., but for accessibility and convenience provide a plaintext option/setting (link detection and so on are still OK.)

* Seriously consider leaving out anything like inline picture display, sound file autoplay etc.

* Provide channel logs, in a daily blog post for example.

One -- possibly strange -- option would be to actually just run a private IRC server (also allowing e.g. Mibbit connections from the Web.)

Easiest solution: IRC

Coolest solution: comment system with AJAX auto-refresh

Mostly, it's important that we be allowed to wear hats in there.

For God's sake man, where is your humanity?

Josh,

Additionally, it would be nice to have easier access to popular blogger/reader posts, especially when the themes go beyond news of the day.

Maybe in addition to "Recent Archives" and "All Reader Posts" we could have links to recent highly recommended/commented on posts.

If they are easy for everybody to find than digging through the archives, popular conversations can continue after they are knocked off the front page by more recent posts (blogger section) or a brief lapse in recent recommends (reader posts section).

In addition to extending conversations, this would allow readers to extend research efforts and possibly even lead to new muckraking story breaks.

The offsite chat room. So that's where the conspiracies take place. (o;

If I may say, and tech+finances permitting, it would be nice to have a weekend-only chat room - dedicated to other things besides the usual wonkish-cum-insightful snark. That could be the TPM weekend/movies/games/you-know-that-thing-called-real-life section (basically, it would help me cope with my weekend TPM-removal syndrom).

I'd say a bunch of chat rooms, probably with links from different articles or different sections of the site to where the live discussion is going on. In addition to maintaining civility and non-tolling, the trick will be maintaining something sorta like a manageable number of things being talked about simultaneously (says the guy with two or three dozen browser tabs)

I just need directions to the chat room opening night, pleeze.

{{{Wagging tail sends modem and router flying}}}

Cheezeburgers would be a bonuz, but obviously not required.

{{{USB hub joins modem and router}}}

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