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We're very sad to inform you that as of March 1, 2002, Nerve no
longer offers a chat service. We know how
much you'll miss Nerve Chat — here are a few answers to questions we think
you might have.
Q: Why did you get rid of Nerve Chat?
A: In order to keep Nerve alive, we need to focus our energies (financial,
technical, customer service, etc.) on our core products, i.e. the online
magazine and the personals.
Q: Why keep Nerve Boards then?
A: The Boards cost virtually nothing to maintain, whereas chat was fairly
expensive to host.
Q: Didn't chat indirectly contribute to revenue by bringing people back to
the site every day and sending them into Personals and the magazine?
A: To some extent, yes. But we want all of our services to be the best they
can be, and we didn't have the time, money or customer service power to
properly support chat. Rather than spread our energies too thinly over a
large number of services that all support the personals and the magazine in
small ways (like the homepages and free email that we already closed), we'd
rather be more focused on making those two products the best on the Web.
Q: How will I stay in touch with all my friends from Nerve Chat?
A: We've created a special folder of Nerve Message Boards called "Chat" —
in there you'll find a number of discussion areas so you can let each other
know where you're chatting these days, etc.
In addition, a fab member by the name of Cos (we're sure you know him) has
set up a Nerve IRC channel. Details on how to access this can be found in
the "Nerve IRC" discussion in the "Chat" folder of Nerve Message Boards.
Q: What about if we paid for Nerve Chat, would you bring it back then?
A: We did think about this. The thing is, some existing chat members would
probably pay to use Nerve Chat, but new members wouldn't (why would they,
when chat is free everywhere else?) so fairly soon the service would
stagnate. The revolving door is key to chat's success.
Q: What about Lisa Carver's weekly chat?
A: Lisa will continue to be a very regular contributer to Nerve magazine,
and as you probably know if you're a Lisa-phile, she's also a very active
participant in the feedback area of her articles. If you'd like to tell her
you miss her chats, you can reach her at lisa@nerve.com.
Q: Don't you guys care about your long-time loyal Nerve chatters who've been
around since the beginning?!
A: Of course we do! But we hope you'll agree that the most important thing is
to keep Nerve alive and kicking (and kicking butt). Our personals and the
magazine are here to stay, thanks in large part to loyal members like you,
who have hung on for the sometimes-bumpy ride. We hope to see you in Boards
and on the Personals . . .
, featuring curious yet marvelous infusions of cucumber and rose petal.
