User:Trillz/Teensay
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Teensay (a.k.a. among its regular users, TS) is a UK-based, free website for teens which includes a chat, forums, entertainment news and reviews, online based store, videos and photo-profile pages. The site has a message board compliment of nearly 7000, but estimates put the chat usage/day at over 30000. The site is controlled by a server in London, and is funded by Google Ads and personal accounts, and the site is hosted by Nitronet Media. Teenssite is known as Teensay's "sister site" (unofficial).
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[edit] History
Teensay started in 2000 as "Teensite.co.uk", with first a chat and some other features. In 2003, the owner of Teensite changed the host to Nitronet and renamed the site Teensay (the old name, Teensite now refers to another chatsite). Since that time, 7 new features have been added, with Funny Videos, Glitter Graphics and Avatars being the newest.
[edit] Description
Teensay's main colours are blue and white, with a graffiti-style site heading.
The image above is a candidate for speedy deletion. It will be deleted on 2007-03-30.
The forums (an IPB-style forum) are also blue and white, though with different styling. The forum options allow users to change skins.
[edit] Traffic
According to Alexa.com, a web directory and ranking site, Teensay averages close to 70,000 users per day, reaching 25 people out of a million per day.[1]
[edit] Notable Features
[edit] Chat
The chat is a DigiChat v5.0, with 5 rooms including Main, Gay/Lesbian/Bi, Chillout, Pool Party and Rap/MC Room. There is about 40 icons to choose from and 20 emoticons. The chat has fairly strict guidelines as stated here Teensay Chat Rules and Guidelines. The chat has almost 30000 users per day, with peak times being between 4pm GMT and and 10pm GMT.
[edit] Forum
The forums or message boards are a product of Invision Power Board, with a blue/white scheme. There is about 260,000 posts and 6000 threads currently on the boards, though because they have been erased and done over several times in the sites history the true number of collected threads and posts is unknown. The forums recently added an 18+ feature to protect younger viewers from seeing adult-oriented threads. Current categories on the board include:
- Announcements
- Site Updates
- The Newbinator
- Chat and Discussion
- General Discussion
- Random
- La Gallerie
- Rant
- Nice
- Mass Debate
- Health and Relationships
- Mind, Body and Soul
- Sex and Relationships
- Tears
- Hobbies
- Food, Drink and Shopping
- Sport
- Music and Radio
- Film and TV
- Showbiz
- Books
- Work and Education
- Education and Employment
- Art and Photography
- Writings
- Showcase
- Members
- The Newbinator
- TS Orphanage
- ASL!?!
- Gallery
- Spotlight
- Members Lounge
- Tasty, Tasty Threads
- WDYTOM?
- Fun 'n' Games
- The Teensay Arcade
- Funnies
- Links
- Surveys and Questionnaires
- Other
- General Technology
- General Technology
- Computers
- Tech Support
- Teensay.co.uk
- Comments, Feedback and Suggestions
- Questions to the members!
The UK broadcasting company, TwoFour has taken interest in research on the boards.[2]
[edit] Help and Advice
Teensay offers a Teen Advice page. This page covers a broad range of topics which affect teensa, including drugs, sex, health and general help sections. Also, it links help lines and websites along with an anonymous question section which allows teens to interact with a agony aunt.
[edit] Photo Profiles
The Photo Album feature is like Faceparty.com, it offers an area were either forum members or other users can post their photos and general information about themselves. There is currently 96 profiles on this feature.
[edit] Issues and Concerns
[edit] Maintenence
Though traffic isn't as large as other sites, the chat periodically has problems with lag and "ghost users", and some of the other features do not show up with certain browsers.
[edit] Hacking
- Chat
The chat of Teensay has been the target of many hackers, for reasons of retaliation, alieviation of boredom or fun. Usually when the site is hacked, it is either down (unable to pop-up) or the settings have changed from the normal blue-white scheme, along with extra rooms and illegal administrators/moderators. Currently efforts by the site administration have placed more safeguards to protect the chat, though it is undetermined how long they stay effective.
- Forums
Hacking doesn't happen as often, since it is easier to ban and catch hackers on the message boards.
[edit] Sexual Predators and Harrasment
Sexual predators are not common on the site, as far as it is known. There has been instances with known sexual predators, and the site has a chat safety page with guidelines and outlines of how to notice and report a sexual predator.
Another issue is sexual harrasment on both boards and chat. As there is many users, alot of them come on with sexual names (example:"cock4u") and harrass chat users for "cyber sex" and web cam links. The administration has placed rules to disallow this kind of behavoir and actions, though on the chat it is in need of improvement.
[edit] "Rivalry"
Some of the regular chat users have a sort of rivalry with another chat site. [3] TeenToday or "TT", where each side hacks or purposely lags (commonly called flooding) the other's chat. The administration of both chat's disapprove of this, while it disrupts the enjoyment of other chat users and causes problems with maintenance.
[edit] Staff
Teensay has a compliment of 20 staff members, they go as follows:
- Chat
- Enigma
- Andrew
- Rafdog
- ClayDragon
- Joseph
- Ed
- Dev
- Gem
- Terrie
- Will
- MidnightToker
- PrincessLaurz
- Liam
- [D]ee
- Jamie
- Josh
- HellHathNoFury
- Krissy
- Boards
- Ben
- Markeh
- Mo
- PsychoticFairy
- Samba
- Frog
- Scoot
- Rosie
- Tiger
- Teensay Site
- Andrew
- Samba
- Dee
[edit] References
- Google Directory - Youth Online Communities
- World Site Index - Teensay.co.uk
- Dooyoo Top Ten Websites - Teensay.co.uk
- Glass Palace Top Hits list
