While I love reading the board posts, I really really love interacting on a faster pace!

but no one was ever there... If chat was more active, I would be more active

but of course it was empty as usual. The chat room has been dead for a few years Melody.
Back before your time on TER, chat used to be lively especially by the West Coast crowd. We used to have a lot of fun back in those days.

I guess we have outgrown chat.

What a waste these days.

And scared off anyone who had an interest.

But yes, before my time 5+ years ago I hear it was much better

I went in and out of there,even w/up to 6 people there and was still nothing going on.I asked Mel a couple of questions and it was Duh!So I left bored....I gave it a last chance staying there for a couple of mins. and the only thing going on was me typing "hello...hello...hello...echo...echo...
echo"in sarcasm before splitting for good.Maybe you should just stick to posting on the msgboard.

Two wordson't bother

Very unusual,I type in capital D and get a giant smiley on the word 'don't'.Beats me how I caused that.

You typed a colon after "two words"

I remember when I first arrived here, I went right to the chat rooms, and there would be two or three people... within a few years, you'd have as many as 40 people and multiple conversations and even some cybersex chat it was great. Hookups and Burger Runs and even the seed for the early Meet n Greet events all started in the TER chat rooms.You're absolutely right Melody...chat used to be a pretty hip house of hookups and textual socializing.

It was a great place.. So what happened? I have my own ideas thinking that some do not play well with others and some like to control the sand box.  

I think there is some confusion about TER chat. There is the chat link up top, as well as a "chat with provider" link when you go to reviews.

TER advertised that certain providers would be available in the chat room at a specific day and time.  Might generate more interest in TER and also be good pub for the provider.  Just a thought.

in 2001, 2002, 2003...  

was a big day. DocG, Cooch, Martin Luther, VV, Brook, just to recall a few names. Lots of fun and somehow everyone could get a word in, lol.

It just seems like interest in chat just waned and when there are only a few people in the room it just became boring.

when they completely revised the website, the chat rooms did not transition well to the new format.
Plus once the sale of TER was completed, the new administration wanted to focus more on the mobile chat applications than online chat rooms.