UPDATE: Chat is now live on the site!

In addition to our Netscape threaded comment system, via which you can communicate with other members about stories, and our messaging system, via which you can send messages to your friends on Netscape, we're adding a new feature very soon: Netscape Chat.


Figure 1: The link to Netscape Chat will appear directly beneath the Today's Hot Stories headline, across from the link to our On Deck page.


Thanks to our developers and some help from our friends over at Userplane, we'll have a static chat room on the homepage of Netscape. If you're a logged in member of Netscape, you can launch the chat and join a live discussion of the top story on Netscape. If everyone is bored with that top story, there will be a list of the top 5 stories with links to all of them. Best of all, it all updates live, so as the ranking on the site changes, everyone in the chatroom will know as the top story listing changes, and the discussion can move on from topic to topic. The chatroom will fall under the normal guidelines set forth for participating in the Netscape Community as outlined in our Terms of Use, and Anchors will check in from time to time to make sure no one is abusing the system as well as to participate in the conversation. As with your comments on the site, please keep the conversation civil or you risk having your chat privileges revoked or a possible ban from the site.

We hope Netscape Chat will provide another way for our community to grow and discuss the news on Netscape, and we hope you all like it. As always, if you have any ideas about how we could make it better, let us know. We're all ears.

We're eager to add more features, and yesterday we added video upload for all members!

You can read about the details in our Video FAQ. Make sure the videos you upload adhere to our Netscape Video Standards. Here's a rundown of the basics:

• Only upload videos that are yours for the uploading.
• There is no time limit on your videos.
• All videos must be 150MBs or smaller and either a .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .avi, .mp4, or .m4v file.
• There is no limit on the number of videos you can upload.
• You can syndicate videos on your website or download original copies of the video.

Have fun!

Here's one I uploaded earlier:



We're really excited about this feature and want to make the most out of it. It's in its early stages, but we want to keep rolling out tweaks, bits, and pieces to make the experience all the better for all of you. Here's a list of things that we're *hoping* to add
(Note: we have to figure out how to make some of these things work first):

• Video icon will link to a list of all videos submitted to the site. DONE!
• WMV support
• iPod-version of the file will have a name based on the story slug rather than some indecipherable string of numbers like 09-26-19-42-10-7050_dl.mp4
• Videos embedded in special video-savvy RSS feeds, so that you can subscribe to videos with a certain tag or in a certain channel. DONE!
• Home for all videos: http://www.netscape.com/video DONE!
  

Any other suggestions?