I think I'll take the rest of the year off of AIM, Yahoo, MSN and any other IM-style chat services. I've been scaling back on it some for the past few months, and it feels like the right time to just let it go for a while. The buddy list is exceedingly small, and those who are on it know how to get in touch with me in lots of other ways. :-)
But I am looking for a new place for gay, BDSM group chat. Recon chat was full of good folks (even though the Flash-based technology was shit) until they discontinued it a year ago to spend more money on—well, I'm sure they spent it on something. Gay.com's BDSM-related chats have been weak for several years, and as we enter 2013 they still don't have any way to access it on mobile devices (even though it's all HTML-based).
I can handle Grindr, Jack'd, and such even though they're full of vanilla types, but there's no group chat there either. I'm looking for a place where doms and subs come together and not only try to pick each other up, but also share stories, discuss experiences, bring questions to the table seeking input, and otherwise function kind of like a community.
I suspect such a place is out there, maybe even with some local participants, but I don't know where it is. Do you know of such a place?
