New CHAT system

[miccofl]

I have yet to use the new chat, mainly because I have noticed that whenever it is active (even if only one person is just sitting there hanging out) the rest of the forums, including the directory, become slower than Civ3 on a huge map with 1000 automated workers. With over 250 users in the forums and no-one in the chat room, things clip along at a decent pace, but as soon as one person enters chat; the error messages start appearing, pages won't load, replies fail etc. (even when the total in the forum is below 150.)

[MarkG]

we've had(and might still have) some configuration issues with our server, unrelated with the addition of the chat room....

[-Jrabbit]

AOL chat problem

Originally posted by MarkG
hmmm AOL/Mac = which IE ??

Actually, I'm pretty sure that AOL's standard browser is Netscape-based. (Gee, Netscape a problem source... bet THAT's never happened here before... )

Not at home now so can't really check. I will state for the record that, if this proves to be a Netscape 4-era browser, I will withdraw my complaint, knowing how idiosyncratic that can be. (At work, I use Netscape 4.5 when I'm trying to see if a Web function will break.)

Like I said in the original post, not a big deal. AOL may be the world's biggest ISP, but doesn't seem to contain a lot of Poly ppl...

[miccofl]

Sorry, my mistake. Things have picked up since your maintenance shut-down today.

[Martin Gühmann]

Black on Blue

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Not at home now so can't really check. I will state for the record that, if this proves to be a Netscape 4-era browser, I will withdraw my complaint, knowing how idiosyncratic that can be. (At work, I use Netscape 4.5 when I'm trying to see if a Web function will break.)

Cool a third Netscape 4.XX user.

But Actual I wanted to post about another problem:

Markos you inserted some text between "Live Chat:" and "Enter" on the top of the forum pages, unfortunatly it is very difficuilt to read, because you black as font color on a blue background in CTP2 forum style. Actual not chat related but the same problem is found on the forum start page you find there "Today's Birthdays" and "Today's Registrations:" in black on a blue background, too.

I used Netscape 4.78 to take that screenshot in Mozilla 1.1 you have blue fonts on blue background.

-Martin

[tniem]

Re: AOL chat problem

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Actually, I'm pretty sure that AOL's standard browser is Netscape-based. (Gee, Netscape a problem source... bet THAT's never happened here before... )

AOL has been using IE instead of Netscape for the last couple years. They are now thinking about going back because of the Mozilla project and AOL's ownership of Netscape. But depending on how old your version of AOL is, than maybe it is Netscape based.

[SABRA]

MarkG what is a "lurker" ?

[MarkG]

lurkers=people who havent posted a message in the last 50 messages

[Martin Gühmann]

Just wonder why if I press on the Reduce the Shoutbox (at least that says the button if I move the cursor over it) button I go to the forum page index instead of returning to the smaller version of the shoutbox. I used Netscape 4.78, you don't have on this page the shoutbox but the links to the archives.

-Martin

[Method]

mark->my userlist doesn't update. i have to refresh the page (IE5.5)

[XarXo]

Why not put the subject of the channel in the top of the chat area? put an:

in the top page body:

<input type="text" id="subject" readonly="1" value="SUBJECT: Kournikova joins 'Save Poly Kittens' Organization!" />

in the top page header (for example):

<style>
#subject
{
background: #CCCCCC;
}
</style>

With just: top.document.getElementById("subject").value = NewSubject; you can update it without redrawing.

[MarkG]

xarxo, the subject is already in the title of the page

[XarXo]

Yep, but I never read the title of the window, only when it loads the content. In a chat the window never reloads enterely, so I never read the title bar.

Also, the title bar is quite useless, in my Windows Taks Bar I only can see "Apolyt...". A great thing could be a small script that creates a marquee with the document.title, but could be really annoying.