In Stable, private chat rooms..., a Metafilter poster asks for help...
Let's say I have a small group of people -- 10 and under -- and I want to provide a stable, private chat room that participants can enter and exit at will. Let's further say that I would want whatever software that provides this to account for different technical skills (no command-prompts) and when everyone leaves the room it isn't taken down needing to be recreated again in the future? Proprietary software is fine. For Profit software is fine. (Free is better!! ;-)
The comments come pouring in: "How about Campfire?...seconding campfire...Campfire sounds exactly what you want...Campfire, absolutely...Campfire was my first thought...etc."
If the scenario described above sounds familiar, then check out Campfire.