New chat room

[Phee]

But considering that more people want to chat than see who else is online, I changed the option for the online users to always be on the top.

Thanks, it looks much better now.

[obisgirl]

For mobile users, there needs to be a post button on the chat.

[Daniel J. Lewis]

For mobile users, there needs to be a post button on the chat.

Does pressing your keyboard’s Enter button not work?

[Sci-Fi Girl]

There seem to be an awful lot of kinks to work out, for a paid chat. I hope some of them are fixable with settings.

I have tried to compile a list of problems experienced by me and others:

– No archive. Some of us would really like to get back the ability to view previous posts! As it is, the chat only shows about 20 entries at a time, and when the chat gets busy it’s REAL easy to miss stuff.

– Posting delay. Most of the time, what I type appears instantly. But sometimes there is up to a 5 second delay! I hit enter, and then I start counting, wondering if it will show up at all! At first I thought it might only happen when I type something long, but then there was a full 5 second delay when I only typed one word! And I’m pretty sure other people have mentioned a lag as well.

– Some people find their posts do not even show up, they have to retype them. It’s not a delay, they wait and nothing happens.

– Sometimes I don’t see new posts until I refresh. So if I post without refreshing, there could be other things in between my post and what I’m responding to.

– Keyboard issues. I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but it is really annoying. I can only post in the chatroom in full screen, because if I try to type in chat on the side of the forum, the keyboard stops working!

– Chat logs out in separate window. I’m not the only one this happens to. I like to use chat fullscreen in it’s own window, and because of my keyboard issue with this chat, I pretty much have to. But when I regularly check in, I find the chat has logged me out, and I can’t post! So even if I’m not looking at the forum right then, I have to go to a page of the forum, let it load, and then go back to the chat window. And only THEN can I post in chat! 😮

Combined with the keyboard problem, this is really annoying. Whether or not I am using the forum right then, I have to go the forum first (where I can’t type in chat), before I can go and talk in chat.

– Keb has the httpS problem in chrome. When she clicks on any forum links, it still defaults to the secure version of the site, where chat doesn’t even show up.

SFG

Keeper of Anna’s Awkward Babbling and Kristoff’s Fur-trimmed Tunic!

[obisgirl]

obisgirl wrote:

For mobile users, there needs to be a post button on the chat.

Does pressing your keyboard’s Enter button not work?

Never mind

 

 

[Sci-Fi Girl]

Honestly, I could get used to pretty much everything except the lack of archive. I would really love to get that back.

I multi-task. (Who does just one thing at a time anymore?) So I am usually looking into chat between doing other things. But if I am having a conversation, and something takes my attention away for a minute, I could have missed someone’s answer by the time I come back! Especially if there are several conversations at the same time, what I want to read can get pushed off the page awfully quick.

SFG

Keeper of Anna’s Awkward Babbling and Kristoff’s Fur-trimmed Tunic!

[Daniel J. Lewis]

This chat (ChatRoll) isn’t working out at this price point. So I’ll be trying another premium solution called FlyZoo. Unfortunately, it costs too much to have on multiple websites (like on the live page), but it make work well for here.

If FlyZoo doesn’t work out, then I’ll have to go back to ChatWING.

[PriceofMagic]

I disliked ChatWing because I would constantly lose conversation everytime I changed page or it would time out then I would lose conversation.

What features does this flyZoo have?

I’m liking the chat we have now so much more than ChatWing, primarily because conversation isn’t lost.

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[Sci-Fi Girl]

So, starting yesterday the chat has a hissy fit whenever more than 10 people are online (including guests I think). Right now it won’t let me in.

You should probably try and fix that before Sunday night. 😯

SFG

Keeper of Anna’s Awkward Babbling and Kristoff’s Fur-trimmed Tunic!

[Sci-Fi Girl]

I see we’re back to chatwing. 🙂

Daniel, you said that history was back, but I can’t find the button? And when I scroll all the way to the top (oldest), it jumps back to the middle. Even if auto-scroll is off, and there are no new posts.

SFG

Keeper of Anna’s Awkward Babbling and Kristoff’s Fur-trimmed Tunic!

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