Greetings Allan,

In the chatroom sometimes a name will be there of folks not signed in on the conversation board, and they seem to always have  a blue sphere instead of the gender sign, like now 9:00am.  
How does one get in the chatroom without signing in?
Also they never answer me, but that may be my own social acceptance issues lol rather than a technological thing.

Bets

Bets,

Don't worry, it's not you.   ;)  These are most likely idle sessions that have timed out.  If someone exits their browser, or goes to another address, the server will not register this action as logging out.  You have to execute the logout command or hit the "X" button at the top-right corner of the chat window to logout properly.  Otherwise, you will be hanging in "limbo" until the server times you out.  I am hoping later versions will address this issue.  There also may be something that I can do to make this work better; I'll look into it.

The logins are done using your account on the Conversation Board.  If you are logged into the Conversation Board, you can go straight into the chat room.

Allan