THE BIG FOUR
Most of the big Internet companies have their own chat rooms and indeed tried to attract the msn chatter towards their site here is how their fair.
Most of these went to yahoo chat, which still operates today and has been going for the best part of 8 years, yahoo chat is the most popular chat site on the net, but unfortunately it suffered badly from misuse with lots of advertising robots spamming every user who enters, there are also no moderators on the rooms which often leads to a free for all in the chat rooms.
Lots went to freeserve chat (Now Orange), which again still operates today but freeserve chat suffers from the same problems that yahoo have with advertisement bots flooding the rooms,and limited room choice not many people use freeserve for regular chatting.
Some went to Lycos chat, lycos chat again still operates today, lycos chat is flash based just like world of chat, lycos chat did seem to be a viable option for the chat room community it is colorful and their do have hosts there, but unfortunately some idiot who works within their company came up with the idea of making people PAY yes pay and whats more amazing is some people actually do lol. lycos chat is a good chat room but if you pay to use a chat room then you need to get yourself a girlfriend plain and simple !
Aol chat some of you might also have tried the Aol chat rooms, aol chat rooms are not very good they are an add on to aol messenger and their messenger is confusing to say the least in my opinion these chat rooms are open to hackers and people who send trojens, with no hosts in the rooms and a lack of support I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.
SO WHERE DID THE CHATTERS GO AFER MSN CHAT CLOSED !
Now I will give you the answer to where the people really went after msn chat closed down, they tried all the above chat rooms and more and noticed they were not the same, the fact is that lots of people stopped using chat rooms after msn closed it doors.