The Official Chat Room Q&A

Constable Jaynin Mimetes · **Posted:** July 20th, 2011, 7:12 pm

Ha. Now every time Dieki makes an update or someone has a question we can put it all in one thread.

Currently I have a request about the new pop up box feature... it's very handy, except when it's out of date. Is there any way we can affix a date and time to it?

BushMaid · **Posted:** July 20th, 2011, 7:43 pm

Awesome!

I have a question too: could there be a way to upload files straight to chat for when we want to share something?

Elanhil · **Posted:** July 21st, 2011, 10:51 am

BushMaid wrote:

Awesome!

I have a question too: could there be a way to upload files straight to chat for when we want to share something?

For artwork you can use the embed feature...

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Vanya Katerina Jaynin wrote:

Ha. Now every time Dieki makes an update or someone has a question we can put it all in one thread.

Currently I have a request about the new pop up box feature... it's very handy, except when it's out of date. Is there any way we can affix a date and time to it?

I'm going to make summoning bubbles disappear if the summon-er leaves chat before the summoned sees them; that should eliminate most of the concerns with people jumping into chat hours after they've been called.

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Awesome! I have a question too: could there be a way to upload files straight to chat for when we want to share something?

I believe this is out of scope for the present chat. There are alternate solutions, however; Imgur works for images, Dropbox for general files.

Elly · **Joined:** October 22nd, 2010, 7:58 am **Posts:** 4197

Nice.

Say, Dieki, the 'currently online users' keeps breaking. . . is this under construction as well?

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Elly of Zoriah wrote:

Nice.

Say, Dieki, the 'currently online users' keeps breaking. . . is this under construction as well?

There are some unresolved issues with that, I'm still working on it.

Elanhil · **Posted:** July 22nd, 2011, 7:27 am

I've had the whole list just up and disappear after a summon...

Also, is there any method to the madness with the online list to the right? It seems to be entirely random... 0.o

Reiyen · **Posted:** July 23rd, 2011, 3:34 pm

I've got a Q:

Can we get a Chat Room instruction guide sometime?

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

The "Pencil" icon has been replaced with a "Quill" icon, to better match the Fantasy theme. (Thanks Vilisse!)

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Dieki Kondrael wrote:

Elly of Zoriah wrote:

Nice.

Say, Dieki, the 'currently online users' keeps breaking. . . is this under construction as well?

There are some unresolved issues with that, I'm still working on it.

This issue has been resolved.

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Reiyen wrote:

I've got a Q:

Can we get a Chat Room instruction guide sometime?

Somebody want to write one?

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Elanhil wrote:

I've had the whole list just up and disappear after a summon...

Also, is there any method to the madness with the online list to the right? It seems to be entirely random... 0.o

It's sorted by userID, which roughly corresponds to date of signup. Someday it'll probably sort alphabetically, but not today.

Elanhil · **Posted:** July 25th, 2011, 1:22 pm

Thanks, Dieki!

One other thing...with the old Private Chatting I could talk to two people in private...granted, this wasn't always private, but now I can only talk to one person at a time. Solution?

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Elanhil wrote:

Thanks, Dieki!

One other thing...with the old Private Chatting I could talk to two people in private...granted, this wasn't always private, but now I can only talk to one person at a time. Solution?

No solution for now, we'll see about group private chatting later.

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

I've just added GMail-style timestamps to private chat.

Aragorn · **Joined:** September 23rd, 2010, 3:42 pm **Posts:** 9085

Nice. Would it be possible to make private chats able to be minimized? As it is now, if there is more than one private chat, it blocks the regular chat.

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Jonathan Garner wrote:

Nice. Would it be possible to make private chats able to be minimized? As it is now, if there is more than one private chat, it blocks the regular chat.

It's planned, but I haven't done it yet.

Aragorn · **Joined:** September 23rd, 2010, 3:42 pm **Posts:** 9085

Okay. Thanks.

Reiyen · **Posted:** July 25th, 2011, 10:37 pm

Dieki Kondrael wrote:

Reiyen wrote:

I've got a Q:

Can we get a Chat Room instruction guide sometime?

Somebody want to write one?

Just wrote one: viewtopic.php?f=67&t=3953

Constable Jaynin Mimetes · **Posted:** July 25th, 2011, 10:40 pm

Would you like to add a complete list of sound cues to the end of that, Reiyen? That would be cool.

Neither the disable notifications or the disable sounds button is working for me. I thought at first it just wasn't working yet, but it appears to be working for others, so any idea why I'm having this issue?

Reiyen · **Posted:** July 25th, 2011, 10:49 pm

Vanya Katerina Jaynin wrote:

Would you like to add a complete list of sound cues to the end of that, Reiyen? That would be cool.

Neither the disable notifications or the disable sounds button is working for me. I thought at first it just wasn't working yet, but it appears to be working for others, so any idea why I'm having this issue?

I actually added one... and then saw your post... so it's there now

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Vanya Katerina Jaynin wrote:

Would you like to add a complete list of sound cues to the end of that, Reiyen? That would be cool.

Neither the disable notifications or the disable sounds button is working for me. I thought at first it just wasn't working yet, but it appears to be working for others, so any idea why I'm having this issue?

Poke w\gChat me next time you're in the HW chatroom, and I'll jump in there to try to figure it out.

Reiyen · **Posted:** July 27th, 2011, 1:26 pm

I also am having difficulties with the "disable notifications" button. The sword sound stops if I have also pressed the "Disable Sounds" button but the disable notifications box does nothing.

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Reiyen wrote:

I also am having difficulties with the "disable notifications" button. The sword sound stops if I have also pressed the "Disable Sounds" button but the disable notifications box does nothing.

Actually, the "Disable Notifications" checkbox refers to the Google Chrome desktop notifications, and shouldn't even be visible to Firefox users. I'll look into why you can see it anyway.

Lady Vilisse Mimetes · **Posted:** July 31st, 2011, 12:49 am

This is more of an issue with the Chat Log...

I can't (nor can Sui or Crash) see any chats during June and before... We can click on months and dates, but the actual chats do not show up

We can see the chats from July just fine though...

Anywho, I know you're not normally on tomorrow/today/Sunday, and I figured I might forget by Monday

So this is a reminder for both of us? *shrugs*

Lady Eruwaedhiel · **Posted:** August 1st, 2011, 4:18 pm

I think it only shows chats that are after the new chat system was installed.

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

That is correct, it doesn't show chats from the old chatroom yet.

Lady Vilisse Mimetes · **Posted:** August 1st, 2011, 5:48 pm

I wondered... It just seemed a coincidence that it was July 1st and I forgot when the log was started...

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

Summons now disappear when the summon-er leaves chat.

No more following a summons only to find an empty chatroom!

BushMaid · **Posted:** August 4th, 2011, 6:07 pm

Awesome.

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** August 5th, 2011, 10:16 am

That's amazing, Dieki!

Lady Eruwaedhiel · **Posted:** August 5th, 2011, 10:32 am

THANK YOU!

Lady Elanor · **Posted:** October 17th, 2011, 6:22 am

Sometimes when I'm private chatting in the chat room I get 5 sometimes more of the same message liks it's duplicating what the other person is typing a few times. Today I got the exact same 5 PMs in my inbox off someone, is this linked to what's happening in the chat room and does anyone know why it is happening?

Thanks!

Andrew Amnon Mimetes · **Joined:** May 14th, 2010, 4:43 am **Posts:** 4458

P'raps people are just being spammy?

Is it always five? Or just...a multiple number of the same message? Could just be someone mashing the send button again and again on slow internet

eru

Dieki Kondrael · **Joined:** January 1st, 2011, 5:34 pm **Posts:** 340

I don't know what's up with the PMs, but the issue in chat is known, and I'm trying to resolve it.

Lady Elanor · **Posted:** October 18th, 2011, 12:15 pm

Ok! Thanks, Dieki!

J. Grace Pennington · **Joined:** July 19th, 2011, 2:35 pm **Posts:** 1988

Is there a way to view chats from June and before?

Reiyen · **Posted:** April 19th, 2012, 2:15 pm

Dieki had once suggested many long ages ago that maybe there would be... but I do not know of it, and I have in the past tried to look that far back, but it never worked.

J. Grace Pennington · **Joined:** July 19th, 2011, 2:35 pm **Posts:** 1988

I just tried today, and I can't.

How sad.

Lady Eruwaedhiel · **Posted:** August 6th, 2012, 1:00 pm

I wondered if J.Lakewood could possibly make the cursor appear inside the italic and bold code boxes in chat like it does in forum posts. As in: When you're posting in the forum, you click the little button that says i and you get a code box for italic in your post, right? The cursor is inside it and then you can go on typing. In chat, after you click the i button the cursor isn't in the text box at all anymore. It's quite annoying.

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