I've created a room or forum called 'website' that I'll use for documentation and/or questions about this website and corresponding software. 

This is a preview release of the Note-A-Day Weblog, version 3. It is my own software package. My name is mike.  The capabilities and features of this site have been rapidly changing. You won't see many of these capabilities and features unless you register for an account. (Membership has its privileges.)

In both the recently added 'forum' section and also in the chat rooms,  you have the ability to create private conversations that can only be viewed by people who know how to find them. These forums/rooms are not listed anywhere. They are created by starting the forum/room name with a period. For instance .myhiddenroom would be hidden. To access these and view the topics therein, you would have to enter the forum/room name in the URL bar. Public conversations can be found from the menu (assuming you are logged in).  

Syntax is:

  http://whatever-site.com/forum/name

replace 'name' with the name of the (secret) forum you wish to access. 

The same thing works for chat

  http://whatever-site.com/chat/name

Notice that I did not put the specific site-name. This particular site can be found under a few different names and may be different depending on how you got here. The contents are mostly the same. Each site has a slightly different look. You might wish to compare xntrik.com and baddcafe.com as examples of how this works.

Update: July 11, 2006

Hidden forums are no longer supported since we now have access controlled forums, which are better.