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Hi Bob. NVEI investors use chat the most of any stock board or anyone else. They came over from the Raging Cess Pool.

I have watched people who never use to post on ihub now start to post here. I've noticed the slow but steady progression to the message board site. So IMO it has been a benefit to Ihub!

1. Any guesses how many iChat users are non-subscribers?

No idea.

2. Is it a valuable enough feature that if it were moved in-house, people would pay a small amount to have access only to it? I'm thinking an amount smaller than the cost of a lifetime subscription here. And either including it as a Premium Feature of the site, or charging a tiny amount monthly for access to it.

I think people may do that. But I also think it's important to keep the grandfather clause in for those already using chat.
Keep the momentum you have now.

3. Would it be helpful to archive daily conversations and make them available on the site?

No. We discussed that possibility and even took a vote on it. The vote was in favor of no archive by a huge amount. One of the reasons given is they felt it would lose the private asset that it has become when having group discussions with certain people.

4. How's the speed and reliability overall? iHub is running on some serious horsepower so if speed and reliability are issues, moving it inhouse should quickly solve any such problems.

It sucks a lot of recources. But overall compared to any other chat site I love it. Good features like private chat.

5. Basically, is it worth paying for? The inhouse version is far from a cheap date.

I think over all it is fine where it is. It attracted new users to Ihub message boards which in turn has attracted new paying members from the friends of the grand fathered in users

6. How many people are here only because we have that feature? If we didn't have it, would we lose a lot of our "invisible" population?

That is a very tough question to answer without polling each user. I know for NVEI shareholders we would find another chat place. How many of them would continue to use the message boards I don't know.

7. Any idea that'd make it more valuable to everyone who uses it.

Have digichat change how much recources it takes up. That is the number one complaint as we get booted. Hopefully others have some ideas. For me it does great with the features it has.

8. Any ideas how iHub can "get paid" due to its presence here?

They already are. New members have come here due to chat and have progressed over to message boards. I think it takes time. Old habits are hard to break for some people using other message boards. Watch what happens as the market eventually turns around. You will increase numbers here. And chat will be a valuable reason why you do. I think chat should always be a premium feature

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