Gaydar was the first and most
successful online dating system, since its launch it has been
much copied. Gaydar has remained fairly static and not shown any
recent innovation - It is a general gay site so have no
real focus. It also boasts Gaydar radio - the content of which
described its audience - dance clubbing gays, some of which are
now much older; since gaydar has been going for a long time now.
It has a number of chat rooms supported by the by the famous
Volano Chat client. There are chat rooms grouped by country and
others by Themed Interest.
Many
of the doghouse members have a gaydar or recon profile which
allows them to get in contact with many people locally, which is
ideally if you are horny that evening and don't want to travel
that far.
Some of
these chat rooms include:
- Dogs
and Masters
- Breath Control
-
Gay Skinheads
- Leather/Bondage
-
Master/Slave
- Rubber
A Chat room listing
When you
hit the Yellow Chat button you will be then taken into a Gaydar
chat listing.
A Chat room
Once inside the room
you can chat in the room as normal.
If you click on one of the members (eg topdog1) you will see
their profile come up so you can find out more about them before
you chat with them. You don't have to have a profile on Gaydar
but it helps and is becoming one of the defacto places to have a
profile.
If you double click on a
member in the right hand window, you enter into private chat
with that person.
Some words of caution.
- Java
applets can eat up a fair bit of your computers resources.
-
Ensure that you have the latest java runtime (or get
MSIE 6+ )
- Hours can rush
past and all that you planned to do has been missed.
-
There are plenty of people that just want to wank off with
the "tell me what you will do to me Sir" type of dialogs.
-
And in the UK you could loose your job using Internet chats
as 'Internet Misuse'.