Nathan

I'm not even the 'wrong' side of 20 yet!!

I had 9 heartbreaking years of running an excellent, innovative chat network ... and the struggle to get users was never-ending and rarely won. Perhaps in the hay-day of IRC, this would have been a feat which was at least in with a shot. These days, with the general decline of IRC (note QuakeNet has dropped below 70,000 users for the first time since it was incepted) ... honestly, I'd be investing my efforts elsewhere.

Oh, and to clarify from some of the previous points I had somehow missed last night... Bench and I are friends outside of 'chat'. I wouldn't have chosen this course of action without at least consulting him on it, given the amount of time he had committed to ChatCore over the years - that being said, he resigned from ChatCore and transferred ownership of the company and the source code entirely to me... so really, the whole debate on whether or not it was my call to make is utterly pointless. However, for Johnson & co, I think I have the source code to one of our first edition web chats somewhere on a hard disk... it won't work in anything aside from IE6 and earlier editions of the Firefox family of browsers, but since you're all such fans of the MSN OCX I can't imagine that'll be a significant problem. [/rant] I think this topic can be closed, I can't see how anything productive can materialise here.

Good lord. "If you come on IRC because it's more important to you than blood, you should probably invest some money in counseling. Don't get all emotional over what happens on here." Written over 11 years ago, yet never have truer words been penned down when it comes to the realm of chat. Everything which I would have contributed to this thread has already been said by err0r and co. Buzzen didn't acquire ChatCore, I chose to accept a position offered and in so doing shared ownership of the source code with the existing owners of Buzzen. Having been there now for nearly a month, I can say with confidence that this is the best move I've ever chosen to make in the 9 long years of ChatCore's history - best staff, best community, best prospects. I'm sorry if somehow some of you feel I have denied smaller networks a chance to grow by my choice... but really, this was the only logical course of action to take. Take care