[MagiKelly]

I have the chat set to be only visible to logged in members. My forum has a little over 8000 members but probably only about 1200 active members (members logged in in a month). The norm would be for between 20 to 70 ish members logged in depending on time of day, however, I will be amazed if I ever have even as many as 10 in total in active chats at ny time. Generally there will be no one chatting with only a few people using it each day, that is why I would not consider an upgraded account.

Even in the short time I have had this runnig I have had the situation where 25 members have been allocated to chat but none want to and another member wants to chat but can't as they are getting the full message. This is really annoying to have a full message when in truth no one is actually using the option.

Being able to restrict it to fewer groups would not really be of any use to me as the people who use the chat are going to be few but spread over the range of groups. The changes that would work for me are having the chat set to off as default with the people willing to chat switchg it on.

The other option is for the limit to be set for the people actually in chat. So all members show up as available but once a set number are in chat rooms no one can enter an existing room or create a new chat. With this set up I would still pay the same money as I do now for a much lesser total, say 10 users active as a maximum.