But not on Yuku.

One of the slowest-appearing and most-requested features for Yuku was chat. This is something that worked fairly well on ezboard and was a key feature as far as many customers were concerned.

So on 20 February 2007, it was finally rolled out onto Yuku to frankly mixed reviews.

Since then, the special Yuku chat server has been up and down more often than a whore’s drawers…

Then in April 2007, it disappeared for a few days whilst they tried to make it work better:

“The chat will be back in a couple of days.”

Still buggy, it was changed again in May and then disappeared again for a while in July.

And now, it’s down again. And of course, being Yuku from ezboard, Inc. when the server and chat system is up, it doesn’t exactly work for everyone either.

Now the chat system - when it does work… - is a nice feature to have and of course, there’ll be those who say “there’s no chat in vBulletin, so there!” but then that’s why you can easily add a rather nice chat feature pretty easily to your self-hosted vBulletin installation that doesn’t require a separate chat server (especially a Yuku Yoyo special) and that does integrate and work very nicely with vBulletin.

Maybe one day those poor unfortunates who battle on with that shower at ezboard, Inc. will wake up and smell the coffee…