new chat feature. (show the love)

[AcornArmy]

I love the new Chat thing. I have to say, though, I bet it's going to put a massive dent in postings. I think conversations are usually preferable to notes, for most people.

Of course, this might only kill threads like Weird, where people aren't really talking about any specific topic to begin with. And since Weird is like some terrifying, forum-eating monster, I suppose that could be a good thing. Was that the idea behind Chat in the first place?

[iago]

 

[Myyrdn Eopia]

One thing I've noticed with the chat is that there are some members that continually change their names.  Once every minute, at some points.

[iago]

One thing I've noticed with the chat is that there are some members that continually change their names.  Once every minute, at some points.

If people overuse or abuse a feature in the chat, they can be sure I'll be investigating how to remove that feature.

[shades of grey]

i like that we can still chat to eachother

thank you iago

[Brightbane]

Is there any way we can be able to open more than one channel (at the same time)? The different ones are kind of pointless right now because no one ever goes on anything but the public one. The only way to get a coordinated group of people in one of the channels would be to keep popping back and forth inviting people, and then you'd continually have to do that to make sure that if people came in you could give them the heads up about where everyone is.

Another idea for if you follow through with that (I'm not even sure if this is possible) is that you could only make the dice feature available in the games closet, because it's getting insanely annoying in the public channel.

[iago]

Not possible.

[Shecky]

Is there any way we can be able to open more than one channel (at the same time)? The different ones are kind of pointless right now because no one ever goes on anything but the public one. The only way to get a coordinated group of people in one of the channels would be to keep popping back and forth inviting people, and then you'd continually have to do that to make sure that if people came in you could give them the heads up about where everyone is.

But that's precisely how we handled it back in my day, when the internet was a strung-together net of tin cans. Seriously, if we wanted to discuss something that was verboten in that room, we either took it to private chat or to another room entirely, and if we wanted latecomers to know where we were, we had to have a designated person popping back and forth to message the original room.

It's not hard.

[Starbeam]

Is there any way we can be able to open more than one channel (at the same time)? The different ones are kind of pointless right now because no one ever goes on anything but the public one. The only way to get a coordinated group of people in one of the channels would be to keep popping back and forth inviting people, and then you'd continually have to do that to make sure that if people came in you could give them the heads up about where everyone is.

Another idea for if you follow through with that (I'm not even sure if this is possible) is that you could only make the dice feature available in the games closet, because it's getting insanely annoying in the public channel.

With the dice rolling, some people who continue doing it have said that if you ask, they'll stop.  Because I guess some people don't consider it to be a sticking rule unless Fred says it in his big red moderator voice.  Also, there is an option to ignore people, if it gets to be that annoying.

My only complaint so far is that people using the different styles will use fonts to match the one they use, but which is very difficult to read on other styles.  Like bright yellow/blue/green being good for the darker/black styles, but headache inducing on lighter styles.

[Myyrdn Eopia]

I use the subblack2 theme, and have found that ALL fonts stay the off-white/yellow color, so to mitigate the color issue.  So I haven't experienced the color issue.  Of course, it could also be dependent upon the web browser you use as well as OS.

[Starbeam]

I use the subblack2 theme, and have found that ALL fonts stay the off-white/yellow color, so to mitigate the color issue.  So I haven't experienced the color issue.  Of course, it could also be dependent upon the web browser you use as well as OS.

Is that with colors enabled?  If not, the colors will stay the same.  But for myself, I use the colors to keep track of who's saying what.

[snowbank]

Since all the computer stuff is way over my head, would it be impossible or just really annoying to erase traditional threads after 30/60/90 days? That would fix the diggers, maybe. The chat thing is fun, but has almost no history.

[Myyrdn Eopia]

Is that with colors enabled?  If not, the colors will stay the same.  But for myself, I use the colors to keep track of who's saying what.

Ya know, I dunno.    I'll check it.

[Shecky]

Since all the computer stuff is way over my head, would it be impossible or just really annoying to erase traditional threads after 30/60/90 days? That would fix the diggers, maybe. The chat thing is fun, but has almost no history.

Really annoying. There's essentially one person doing the regular code-type work on the boards, and he's got a life. I think it's pretty reasonable that he wants the boards to be as low-hassle as possible for him - I know I'd prefer it that way if I were holding the bag.

[snowbank]

Really annoying. There's essentially one person doing the regular code-type work on the boards, and he's got a life. I think it's pretty reasonable that he wants the boards to be as low-hassle as possible for him - I know I'd prefer it that way if I were holding the bag.

That's why I asked. Never mind.