What’s this about a new java chat room upgrade?<\/p>\n
Your name is in blue – everyone sees their own name in blue. Everyone else sees your name in red.<\/p>\n
Pms, whispers, and ignore buttons are all in the “right click on someone’s name” menu now.<\/p>\n
PMs do not pop up in new windows – they become tabs. When someone pms you, there is no setting to auto-pop, or auto – open a new tab; you will have to find their name in the list and right click to pm them back, which will open a new tab.<\/p>\n
There is no “eye button” that allows you to see all people in all the rooms list.<\/p>\n
We also do not have all the naughty smileys with the new system.<\/p>\n
The ability to change the colors of your username is not possible with the new system.<\/p>\n
jamegar found that user avatars may only show for firfox users, not IE or safari when entered from forums pic.<\/p>\n
The anchor to stop the scroll does not stop 100%<\/p>\n
The custom “emotes” do not work the same either.<\/strong> We have experimented with ways of making emotes with the new system, and it is kind of rudimentary – you can type a colon and a plural word and kind of make it happen. Singular words don’t seem to work for some reason. So typing ” : dances with wolves” will show in the room as an italicized emote kind of thing. but typing ” : dance with myself” doesn’t work. It’s something we will have to get use to and deal with, as we are spending most of our resources on the forum integration with the newest flash chat systems, and so we are limited to the modifications we can afford time for with this interim system. I am hoping to get the new forums connect \/ avatar thing working with this system, and if people can have avatars or custom pictures next to their names, then it should take some of the sting out of not being able to change screen name colors.<\/p>\n So what else, let me see here – private messages do not pop up in new windows – they kind of open in a new tab, and you can’t see the lobby while you are in the other tab. That is kind of drag, but it does also keep the windows more stable. I often have trouble with having multiple pms open with the older system. A help button has been suggested, so yeah, I need to make a help page, and really want to produce a short video showing how to use the features, and showing some etiquette issues.<\/p>\n That kind of bugs me too. I am working with one of our programmers to see what we can do about these issues with the new java chat system. If it turns out that we can fix or modify some of these things without it costing too much time and money, then I would love to make them happen.<\/p>\n What about the new flash chat rooms we’ve been hearing about?<\/strong><\/p>\n We are working on the new flash based chat room system, it is coming together nicely, with lots of cool new features. It is missing a few key ingredients unfortunately, and we are working on that. It’s going to be delayed a few weeks at this point as we add new features and test the functionality. The new java chat room upgrade has some bonuses, and a few drawbacks, but will serve the chat community here well as we continue to develop the newer flash based system.<\/p>\n Why the interim java chat upgrade?<\/strong><\/p>\n We need it for several reasons. It’s been a long time with the old system that we have all come to know and love. We’ve really outgrown it. The newer java system should make things easier on the eyes in a few ways, and the main advantage of it is the new moderation system. Our moderators have a pretty tough job already, and the old system makes it really hard for them to kick and ban the right people as the list moves and there are some other limitations. With the new system moderators should have a much easier time banning the spammers. This will make the room better for all of our users.<\/p>\n There are some other cool things about the new interim upgrade, like the ability to sort the names list alphabetically, and a few other things. In a few days we should have the interim system connected with the new forums system, and fingers are crossed that the new system will pull user’s avatars or profile pics from the forums into the new chat. We are also working to have the registration system in place with this interim system so people can “own” their screen names. There are many different ways to deploy this, and I am not sure how will be best. We could force all chat room users to register, which would make it easier for everyone to own their sex chat identity here, and we may find a hybrid way to do things – not sure yet, we’ll keep ya posted. The newer system should be pretty familiar to everyone using the current \/ old system as it is very similar. There are a few major losses with the new system however.<\/p>\n You comments here are welcome.<\/p>\n Steve Nashvegas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s this about a new java chat room upgrade? Your name is in blue – everyone sees their own name in blue. Everyone else sees your name in red. Pms, whispers, and ignore buttons are all in the “right click on someone’s name” menu now. 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