Having the free webcam service is very awesome, which is why I like Tinychat.

IRC is great if you're somewhat computer savy. Tinychat is great for the masses. 

I thought this was standard practice. O'well, if i don't know who you are, I probably won't talk to you anyway...just because I am like that...

As Zzap said the cameras are a central feature of the chat room now, so moving to something like IRC again is not an option.  However the #nesdev IRC channel on efnet is still going if you want the more technical side (and almost always off topic).

Downloading an app is also a bad idea, so that cuts out jabber. AFAIK none of the web clients have camera support.

I've thought about installing Flash Media Server and doing this type of chat room myself (the coding isn't rocket science as it's somewhat native to FMS), but again, this is one more item that someone else can do better with a devoted tech staff (like TinyChat).

If TinyChat doesn't work out, I'll look into a paid service that has webcam support. The problem with TinyChat is that I did pay them for a year's worth and they lost my account. So now I can't login to manage anything and when I try to re-create an account, they say it already exists And I've sent their tech support multiple emails, only to never once hear back. So we're between a rock and a hard place: TinyChat is great and horrible at the same time. Any company that can lose their customer login information more than once (this happened 3 times already), is not really a company headed for great success IMO.

Believe me Dain, Paul and I have tried to get back into your account to moderate the room in the past when there were some people that needed the boot and we couldn't fix it either.

I've tried again today, attempting to login about 50 different ways, with no luck.

The other issue is that they changed how the usernames appear. At first it was the email address without any punctuation, like "nameatdomaincom", then they changed it to email address, then to just an arbitrary value. The problem is that when they did that (each time), they completely boot fucked the existing users, including paid accounts. Talk about a bunch of rookies. In my business, that would get me fired and then sued!

Do they have a toll free customer support number? I never have a good success rate when I email customer support.

No problem! I will start using in-chat name changes so there's room for my full username and then _work/_afk. Good idea! There was some random folks coming in as "tanik" one time, and it was quite annoying.

I liked being rothimus_prime and brothy_soup, but no probs : )

Those are ok because they contain your full username

Their support page is less than pathetic:

http://tinychat.com/help.html...

I've never been in chat. What kind of weird things goes on in there? How many times has Bella shown her boobs?

I never use chat, I might start

Bums' dumpster was where it was at....back in the day....ah the memories....

Whips, chains, strap ons, forced anal bondage, ball gags, shirtless penguins....all sorts of fun stuff.

Tinychat has been doing some sucking the past few days. d/cing for no reason.

I think tinychat is great. The discussion in there lately has been crap, but the service itself is great. The webcam feature is the only reason I brought Tinychat to NA in the first place. I think it's 1000x better than any of the chatrooms we've used in the past.

If there were a way to natively implement NA usernames into Tinychat, it would be amazing, but that isn't a possibility unless Dain coded it from scratch.

So just enjoy it for what it is. And if you find something better, bring it here. But webcam feature is the standard now.

The new chat room is awesome!
All the cams and whatnot.
I enjoy being able to broadcast live NES gameplay to the room, and I'm sure I've entertained quite a few bored souls in the process.
I was thinking about doing a gaming night where I pick a certain time and try to conquer a game in one sitting. Doing it at a set time like Wednesdays at 9pm or something. Idk. Im lazy.

^^ I like that idea. Has to be wierd titles though something that the norm haven't beat. You up for some Rambo.

I would watch

Sounds great Herb.. Can you beat Battletoads? Seeing as people couldn't do it while people were watching at teh campout.. Stage Fright I guess.

I wish I could. One day maybe, one day.
It's a loose goal of mine to finish every NES game I can!

Now tineychat posts  advertisments every ten minutes?
Man does this get annoying...owell...
Anybody find anything new and better yet?

Honestly Matt, you seem to be the one most bothered by Tinychat, so you see an ad every few minutes, is that really the end of the world?
I've asked this before, and I'll ask again, Matt can you find a better free chat program? 
Others aren't looking because no one else is bothered by it.  So you see an ad, it beats paying for chat, and what's the harm?