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BetaChat Christmas Eve Party 2021

BetaChat Christmas Eve Party 2021

BetaChat 2021 Holiday Newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/7d941fb1032c/betachat-2021-holiday-newsletter?e=271242210a] Pet Pics Contest Once again, our pet pics contest has returned! This year, 3 winners were supposed to be selected via voting to win $50,000 BCP each! This year though, we had a 3-way tie for 3rd place!

BetaChat Halloween Bash 2021

Movies! We watched Hocus Pocus, Goosebumps, and Beetlejuice! Prizes were awarded in between, and sometimes during movies! Intermission!Prizes! * Trick or Treat 1st place: 100,000 BCP and $20 Amazon Gift Card was won by MJ94 (aka thriller)! * Trick or Treat 2nd place: 50,000 BCP was won by AJ!

BetaChat Christmas Eve Party 2020

BetaChat Christmas Eve Party 2020

BetaChat 2020 Holiday Newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/97a92b7fd20e/betachat-christmas-eve-event-3940944]Pet Pics Contest We decided to have another pet pics contest this year! This one lasting one week, 3 winners were selected by the community via voting to win $50,000 BCP each. Everyone's submissions were absolutely adorable, and the channel

Halloween Bash 2020

Halloween Bash 2020

Movies! We watched Hocus Pocus, Scream, Beetlejuice, Insidious, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with giveaways and prizes in between! Prizes! * $5 Amazon (@Noah, 2nd place in Trick'cord Treat) was won by @mj * $2,500 BCP (3rd place in Trick'cord Treat) was won by @harleigh * $25 Amazon (@Noah, 4th place

BetaChat Christmas Eve Party 2019

BetaChat Christmas Eve Party 2019

Bingo! * 1st game – @mj won regular Bingo! ($50 Amazon Gift Card from @sheldon) * 2nd game – @ratdotexe won four-corners Bingo! ($50 Amazon Gift Card from @tim) * 3rd game - @CaptainJohnnyK won full-board Bingo! ($50 Amazon Gift Card from @Noah) Other Prizes * $25 Amazon Gift Card (@aj) was won by @Taylor * $15

BetaChat Christmas Eve Party 2018

BetaChat Christmas Eve Party 2018

Tim won a $50 Amazon gift card from Jonny!The "Studio"The Live Quiz - Final Scores - 1. ajcutshall (11) **exempt! helped with the quiz, came up with 80% of the questions, but still thought he could get in on the action... L O L! 2. negativeflare (8) **winner!

Say Hello to Amika - The Community Cat!

Say Hello to Amika - The Community Cat!

Every community needs an official cat, right? Well, it was decreed that mine and Annie's cat 'Amika' is the official Community Cat! A BetaCat if you will...

New Logos & TeamSpeak Changes

New Logos & TeamSpeak Changes

Hello all, We've made some changes today. Some good, some slightly annoying. But all to make better sense of where things are located. We're switching to Discord [https://betachat.net/join]! Just kidding. We've basically retired the TeamSpeak Cafe branding, and changed it to BetaChat TS, which I believe makes

TeamSpeak vs. Discord Audio - Feb 2018

TeamSpeak vs. Discord Audio - Feb 2018

The January 25th 2018 update to Discord, bringing the Opus codec to version 1.2, has brought the audio quality in voice channels close to that of TeamSpeak. From our tests, we found that while voice quality sounded about the same. Even when comparing music, through a Discord bot. But,

BetaChat Christmas Eve Bash 2017

BetaChat Christmas Eve Bash 2017

2017 Newsletter [http://mailchi.mp/d5d5b4854f0a/betachat-christmas-eve-event-2017] "When will you be around?" Poll [http://www.strawpoll.me/14685671/r] Movie Poll [http://www.strawpoll.me/14689786/r] Merry Christmas!!! Xmas Party Winners: Live Quiz * Ethan got the 1st place prize and got a $50 gift card to Amazon (from Noah)

The Laundry Room Story

The Laundry Room Story

One fine evening in late September I decided to do a little bit of laundry in my apartment's laundry room. Unfortunately this non-event turned into a feud between me and my cross-dressing neighbor. At the end of the dryer cycle I went downstairs to get my blankets, which should have

Welcome to the BetaChat Blog!

Welcome to the BetaChat Blog!

Welcome to the new blog platform for BetaChat Community members! Read member-written stories, tech news, community happenings, how-tos, coding, music, etc. We call it The BetaChat Banter. Yeah, you're probably saying "A blog? Wtf?" Some of us thought it would be a fun idea so we did a poll: If

Using a Meat Smoker Inside Your Apartment is a Bad Idea

Using a Meat Smoker Inside Your Apartment is a Bad Idea

This one can be filed under common sense, honestly. Unfortunately, common sense isn't always something that people have.