I can't tell you how many damn hours I've put into this, but it's stinking ridiculous. I'm finally starting to figure out the vBulletin API. See that number on the chat tab? Yeah, that's supposed to be how many people are in the chat room at that time. I'm also now working on getting the list of users in the chat room at the bottom.

It's not perfect yet, since the last user doesn't time-out of the chat application correctly, so I'm going to have to figure out how to update it when nobody is in there, but if you see a 2 or more there, than chances are good folks are chit-chatting. I know that's one of the reasons that the chat isn't used as much as it was because that's a bit of load time just to see if someone was actually in there.

When I finally clued in and the stupid thing worked, I don't think I can properly explain the relief and elation that I don't completely suck at computers. Seriously, I've spent HOURS trying to figure this crap out. And it was like a steering wheel in my pants. It drove me nuts.