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Geshtal · Lead Project Manager Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 1072

If you haven't noticed, when you're in the Forum Index there is a small area at the bottom that tells you how many people are on the forums...now, right below there there is an option to use a chat interfece! It's a small window that opens up so you can chat with other people while you're browsing the forums! Great for small talk and things that don't need to be kept recorded int he forums!

I plan on using it whenever I'm on to answer questions and things immediately instead of having to wait for me to get to your posts!

Gesh
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Conrad Hollows · Sat 10/12/02 1:42am

I like it.

Good stuff.

Kindo · Sat 10/12/02 8:51am

Yes, very well done Fooz.

Falkhor · DysoMOD|DM Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 1264

the chat is nice but could there be a way to alert someone you want to talk to them in chat when you see them online. Private mail tends to take too long for that...

Foozbane · Elder Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 724

I'd like to see that too. Overall it would just be nice to have an "instant message" thing built into the forums for sending a quick message to somebody. The problem here is that a quick message popup window can only show up when the person receiving the message (re)loads a forum page; there is no way to "send" the message request to the target user in the web environment.

One good thing about this, though, is that while the chat window is open it auto-refreshes itself every 10 seconds, therefore, instant messages could pop up in a very timely manner in that case.

Fooz

Foozbane · Elder Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 724

Other things on the chatbox idea list, post more if you have any:

- Put a timestamp on each message spoken in the chat window

- Have an option to temporarily pause the chat window refresh, so that you can go back and read what was said before without it constantly jumping back down to the bottom

- Make the chatbox size adjustable by dragging the edges

- Sometimes messages seem to show up in the wrong order, or smilies temporarily don't show as smily graphics -- fix

Fooz

Zedium · Wed 10/16/02 5:32am

wouldn't it just be far easier to have an IRC channel?

Kindo · Wed 10/16/02 1:40pm

I have never udnerstood IRC....seems lame

Zedium · Wed 10/16/02 2:38pm

lame? its just the forum chat while you don't have have to keep IE running

Kindo · Wed 10/16/02 2:57pm

I don't get it.

Foozbane · Elder Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 724

We would use IRC definitely, but there are a few problems..

1. People behind a firewall (at work) can't access IRC, even via a web-based java client (because the connection is still made by the local computer).

2. All java irc clients I've used so far are either lame, or don't work right under any number of circumstances.

3. People shouldn't have to download an irc client, or learn irc commands, to chat here.

This is why we went with a chatbox instead of IRC.

Fooz

Foozbane · Elder Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 724

Chatbox updated

Following changes have been made:

1. You can now resize the chatbox window. Yay!
2. You can also resize the different subsections of the chatbox as you see fit.
3. Messages are now timestamped.

Fooz

Conrad Hollows · Thu 10/17/02 11:07pm

Good stuff and I agree with you on all counts regarding the use of an IRC client.

Kindo · Great Deity Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 4068

Yes, think about me. The clueless pnöt.
I have no idea how it works. And I have seen others use it and it looked extremely messy and boring.
BAH!

Zedium · Fri 10/18/02 5:34am

well, mIRC is just a small program, geez, if you can't download that, there is something wrong with your computer.

Falkhor · DysoMOD|DM Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 1264

I recently noticed the pages of the Dyso homepage are at war with eachother, vying for who is allowed to be on top. For no apparent reason pages seem to jump to the front, even for example while i'm typing this the main page suddenly decides it wants to be on top...

BladE · Mortal Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 22

Well, we got our 'own' channel now @ my serv, and as a matter of fact, it turned out to be a good choice.

I can't say more than, visit the rest some time

Glorin · Tue 10/29/02 8:09pm

it doesnt work for me

BladE · Mortal Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 22

There's only 1 possibility why u can't join: U don't have java installed
But if I recall, u were actually @ the server before right?

#Dysotopia , java@24.62.68.45 , Sunday 27-10-2002 , 19:00:30 , Connection reset by peer (TCP/IP connection broken)
All users for 24.62.68.45 :
1 : Glorin
1 users found!

Anyway, there IS an alternative possibility,

http://130.89.169.34:8000/hclient/frames/default.htm?&room=dysotopia

It's the HTML client. Use that instead if u can't use otherwise

Glorin · Wed 10/30/02 8:29pm

yes, i was in the chat before