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PostPosted: May 10th, 2011, 10:48 am 
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I discovered this oddity recently:

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Is this a post that has been hidden by the sender? Is it a glitch? Or is it a Dieki-ism only? :P

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PostPosted: May 10th, 2011, 11:00 am 
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That's a post hidden by the sender.

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Is a "hidden" chat different than a "private" chat between selected people? :?

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PostPosted: May 10th, 2011, 11:04 am 
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It's the same thing, unless the person sends something to himself (such as a sound effect, so that it hides who did it temporarily).

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Ah, okay. Thanks, Jonathan.

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You're welcome. I'm hoping I'm right... I'm just going by what I've witnessed in chat. :D

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What is with the numbers at the far right of your chat posts?!

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PostPosted: May 11th, 2011, 9:58 am 
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Eh, that's the "delete post" button. I have no clue why it shows up like that. :P

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@Lady E: Somewhat off-topic, but it shouldn't be like that :P Try changing your browser's text encoding to UTF-8 (how to do that changes browser-by-browser but El Goog probably has some tips :D)

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PostPosted: May 15th, 2011, 7:02 pm 
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It's already set to UTF-8. (I found the way to change it in FF4 -- View > Character Encoding.)

Ohh, and I CAN only see these half-posts after I refresh the page. I didn't realize that.

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Strange :P

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 Post subject: Re: Disappearing Chat Posts?
PostPosted: May 16th, 2011, 6:30 am 
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Those are just private chats. :) I don't know why Dieki made it so you can see half of them if the page is refreshed...


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PostPosted: May 16th, 2011, 7:02 am 
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Amanda Kondrael wrote:
Those are just private chats. :) I don't know why Dieki made it so you can see half of them if the page is refreshed...


*whispers* That way you can know whether or not the chat is really silent...or people are whispering without your knowledge. ;)

Or...you know, he probably had another reason. :roll: I just don't know it.


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Hope no one has refreshed the page when I private chat, because usually I'm talking to myself! :shock: I guess that would just prove what everyone has already deducted...

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I guess that would just prove what everyone has already deducted...


That you're epicly awesome? ;)


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BushMaid wrote:
I guess that would just prove what everyone has already deducted...


That you're epicly awesome? ;)

Awesome one of the words you could use... :D

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Somewhat related (if I should have made this a separate topic, I do apologize), occasionally when people are using private chat, non-private chats will not be shown and only become visible on refreshing the page.

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PostPosted: May 17th, 2011, 12:16 am 
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In other words, we suspect that secret chat generate a kind of gravitational pull that will suck nearby chats into their vortex of secretness. This would explain the oft-referred to phrase "Chat ate my post! :shock: "

You know you're a crazy scifi writer when you start using gravitational fields to explain forum bugs instead of the traditional magical explanations.

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Sometimes when chat is very busy, and sometimes when people are conversing in secret chat, I've had chat posts disappear entirely and not reappear when the page is refreshed.

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PostPosted: May 17th, 2011, 8:22 am 
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It's probably because the chat doesn't like me, but I haven't been able to see people's posts for some time now. I just see a name next to a blank space.

Incidentally, I can't see my posts either.

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That's the same thing that happened to Dri! It's not a fluke then.

Perhaps if we can figure out what you two have in common we can figure out what is going on. *ponders, and awaits the experts*

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PostPosted: May 17th, 2011, 10:24 am 
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What browser are you using, Neil? Dri said he was using IE7, which is an older browser, so it could be some quirk from older browsers....Dieki would know :P

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I'm using a recent edition of firefox. I have several ad-blocker and pop-up blocker additions running. I'm running Windows Vista.

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Redemption is to be purchased, to have a price paid. So I was redeemed from my master sin, and from justice, which demanded my death. For He paid the price of sin by becoming sin, and met the demands of justice by dying for us.

For all men have a master. But a man cannot have two masters. For he will love one and hate the other. You cannot serve God and sin. So I die to the old, as He died, and I am resurrected to the new, as He was resurrected.

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If you are running something like NoScript, chat will be broken. Possibly ditto for popup blockers, depends on how they work. :)


Oh, and the reason for the half-chats is a technical limitation. Someday I'd like to redo the chat system from scratch, but until then... we'll just have to live with it. :P

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I also happen to know (from experience) that a slow connection can damage chat pretty badly...

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My connection is excellent, so that shouldn't be a problem.

The thing is that not being able to choose the chat is a very recent development. I haven't added any plug-ins to my browser for a long time.

I'm fairly certain I'm not running NoScript. I think the pop-up blocker is just part of the ad-blocker plug-in. (Ad-Blocker Plus. It's free from the Firefox add-ons page. I'm also running another Ad-Blocker Plus script that facilitates its function on Windows, I believe.)

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For all men have a master. But a man cannot have two masters. For he will love one and hate the other. You cannot serve God and sin. So I die to the old, as He died, and I am resurrected to the new, as He was resurrected.

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How recent? I made some big changes a few months ago, but nothing in the past few days.

It should be totally compatible with AdBlock plus...

Huh. Weird. :P

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I think it was around the time of your last change...

Hypothesis: My intelligent, malignant, and generally annoying computer has done something to offend the Computer Gods (ask Inesdar).

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Redemption is to be purchased, to have a price paid. So I was redeemed from my master sin, and from justice, which demanded my death. For He paid the price of sin by becoming sin, and met the demands of justice by dying for us.

For all men have a master. But a man cannot have two masters. For he will love one and hate the other. You cannot serve God and sin. So I die to the old, as He died, and I am resurrected to the new, as He was resurrected.

Note: Ebed is Hebrew for bondsman, Eleutheros is Greek for unrestrained (not a slave).


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Neil of Erk wrote:
I think it was around the time of your last change...

Hypothesis: My intelligent, malignant, and generally annoying computer has done something to offend the Computer Gods (ask Inesdar).


I just noticed - you're still running Firefox 3.6. Chat should work in 3.6, but still try upgrading to Firefox 4. (FF4 is faster, prettier, more stable, and generally more awesome than 3.6 anyway. :cool: )

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What about cache, just to throw in another variable? Is it possible that he might have some stale components cached still?


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Dieki Kondrael wrote:
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I think it was around the time of your last change...

Hypothesis: My intelligent, malignant, and generally annoying computer has done something to offend the Computer Gods (ask Inesdar).


I just noticed - you're still running Firefox 3.6. Chat should work in 3.6, but still try upgrading to Firefox 4. (FF4 is faster, prettier, more stable, and generally more awesome than 3.6 anyway. :cool: )


Noted. :book:

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Redemption is to be purchased, to have a price paid. So I was redeemed from my master sin, and from justice, which demanded my death. For He paid the price of sin by becoming sin, and met the demands of justice by dying for us.

For all men have a master. But a man cannot have two masters. For he will love one and hate the other. You cannot serve God and sin. So I die to the old, as He died, and I am resurrected to the new, as He was resurrected.

Note: Ebed is Hebrew for bondsman, Eleutheros is Greek for unrestrained (not a slave).


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