Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24841494-20140413162532

In the recent thread proposing the permanent shut down of chat, many, including myself, suggested an idea involving temporary periods of shutdown. This can be viewed as a comprimize of sorts.

Chat will open at the end of the current allotted time, and continue on reasonable periods of time where it will alternate between being useable, and temporary shutdown. A few lengths of time discussed were as followed, but feel free to suggest any other ideas you have. This is as much a brainstorm as a proposal.

Firstly, is a period of two weeks, following the current shutdown schedule.

Secondly, is ten days. This means there will be almost exactly three rotations per month.

Finally, is three weeks. This longer period of time will remove a lot of hassle from shutting down and adding chat.

In all cases, I recommend installing some kind of countdown, visible from main page and chat. This will prevent people from being caught by surprise for the most part.

Overall, this compromise will allow this site to keep this increased viewership and editing that it has been experiencing, and allow the chat users to keep the function they adore.

 