Not just a crappy Cranberries song anymore

August 22, 2006 1:32 PM

Silly name, but fun all the same ... Free web (2.0, natch) chat site that allows users to search for chat rooms based on tags or to set up their own room(s) that are either public or private.
posted by terrapin (21 comments total)

MeTa.
posted by nthdegx at 1:49 PM on August 22, 2006

No comment
posted by IronLizard at 1:56 PM on August 22, 2006

There once was a web site named lingr

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.
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And lo and behold, 'twas his fingr!

(Nothing funny ever happens in the middle of limericks anyway, so fuck it.)
posted by mr_crash_davis at 2:00 PM on August 22, 2006 [2 favorites]

With frames and javascript, I made a chat room system like this in....1997? I don't know the actual time, as it was when Netscape 3.0 was the standard browser, and everything's a blur of frustration and tears around that era in history.
posted by thanotopsis at 2:04 PM on August 22, 2006

"AOL? Is that you? It's been so long! Come in, come in. Sit by the fire and get warm. I'll get some cocoa brewing while you tell me about your travels. Really, AOL, it's nice to have you back."
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 2:17 PM on August 22, 2006

You can insert pictures in the chatroom... that can be abused easily
posted by daninnj at 2:17 PM on August 22, 2006

Quite interesting that I join and there are already 2 people named dios.

I need to start a fan club for sure.
posted by dios at 2:18 PM on August 22, 2006

oh drat, I thought that was the real you.

It reminds me of Gabbly.com but better.
posted by nickyskye at 2:29 PM on August 22, 2006

I did show up later. But it looks like it crashed.
posted by dios at 2:35 PM on August 22, 2006

FlickrLive lives?
posted by figment of my conation at 2:44 PM on August 22, 2006

The MetaFilter chatrooms have the most activity. MetaFilter chatting about Metafilter in a MetaFilter post on the site the post was about... whoa, how meta.
posted by lekvar at 2:58 PM on August 22, 2006

Wow, there's like 2 rooms and nobody in any of them. Except somebody from the same state as me.

Good idea, great execution.
posted by Brainy at 3:11 PM on August 22, 2006

There once was a web site named lingr
who hired a popular singr
it turns out could manage
a single appendage
And lo and behold, 'twas his fingr!
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 3:14 PM on August 22, 2006

Wait, that's not funny. It's more, kinda, sad.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 3:15 PM on August 22, 2006

Sex-
1 person chatting

...I wonder how that's going...
posted by rollbiz at 3:27 PM on August 22, 2006

Their obvious next step is analingr and cunnilingr for the gay and lesbian communities.
posted by yhbc at 5:06 PM on August 22, 2006

Lame. Please stop including the "2.0" after "web."
posted by kdar at 6:48 PM on August 22, 2006

I got tired of talking to myself.
posted by ZachsMind at 6:58 PM on August 22, 2006

hum. Metafilter Lingr has two people in it, leaving it in an open tab "to see if anyone comes along."
posted by Citizen Premier at 7:30 PM on August 22, 2006

If one of these sites came along and thought to think "hey, I'll make this integrate with Jabber so this site isn't just yet another soon-to-be-forgotten adventure in javascript", that would be interesting.
posted by dmd at 6:40 AM on August 23, 2006

After you are done playing with web 2.0 toys, try the real thing
posted by rubin at 4:53 PM on August 23, 2006