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New Chatroom Testing

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Jul 27, 2012.

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  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Remove all ads!
    Hmm, should be on all skins... I'll look into that and see how much of an impact it'd have to enable it on all the pages.
     
    Taluntain, Feb 24, 2013
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  2. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    OK; now the chat should be on all the forum pages (sans the blogs) and all the skins. Let me know if you spot any problems!
     
    Taluntain, Feb 24, 2013
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  3. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Yeah, it's better now mate. Hurray for beta testers.
     
    Barmy Army, Feb 24, 2013
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  4. Master of Nuhn

    Master of Nuhn Wear it like a crown Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Here's one thing I don't understand. It might have to do with my computer, since I haven't heard someone else about it, but I thought I should mention it.

    Sometimes, after a while in the FAI, I type my text in the bar and when I hit enter, it doesn't show in the chat box. Another chatter mentioned that she has that sometimes after being idle for a while, but I haven't been idle in the chat at all and got it several times on an evening. I closed my browser and re-entered the FAI and everything's fine.

    Anyone else had this?
     
    Master of Nuhn, Feb 25, 2013
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  5. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Yea, I got that too. Just refreshing the page with the chat seems to fix it. It's a bug, one of many unfortunately.
     
    Taluntain, Feb 25, 2013
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    Just wanted to say that I've been enjoying the chat function immensely. Getting to know some of you people, feel free to bother me on there if you want to talk.
     
    Ludovik, Feb 25, 2013
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  7. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Good to hear that you like it!
     
    Taluntain, Feb 25, 2013
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    Topken Elven-dragon wizard

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    I already alerted Tal to several bugs many of which can not be fixed and so we had to lose a few functions because of bugs.
     
    Topken, Feb 26, 2013
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  9. Master of Nuhn

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    That's too bad. I just keep posting about bugs here if I find some, since I don't know what bugs are already alerted. Or is that unnecessary and can I just hit Refresh for most known bugs?
     
    Master of Nuhn, Feb 27, 2013
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  10. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Just try to work around or ignore them, they're all known and already reported, it's just their fixing that's painfully slow and half-assed. Nothing I can do about it but wait and hope for more fixes at this point.
     
    Taluntain, Feb 27, 2013
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  11. dmc

    dmc Speak softly and carry a big briefcase Staff Member Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    I was messing around in the arcade and noticed a lag in the game I was playing. Could that have something to do with the chat notifications popping up on the screen?
     
    dmc, Feb 27, 2013
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  12. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    That's possible... best not use the chatroom at the same time.
     
    Taluntain, Feb 28, 2013
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  13. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    I've upgraded the chatroom to the latest version released today - should contain a few fixes but I don't know if it's for any of the issues we've been noticing.
     
    Taluntain, Mar 2, 2013
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    I don't like the new chat thing, all it does is lag the site and use up bandwidth. Nobody ever uses it anyway. The site goes unresponsive for about a minute every time I refresh the page.
     
    Arctic Daishi, Mar 21, 2013
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  15. T2Bruno

    T2Bruno The only source of knowledge is experience Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Did you like the old chat thing better?
     
    T2Bruno, Mar 21, 2013
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    Vorona Shadow-Whisperer

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    I liked the old chat thing better. With the old one, I could look to see who was chatting and then decide whether I wanted to chat or not. With the new one, if I open it to look at who's in it, it leaves the window there in front of the site until I navigate to a different page. Since most of the time, I prefer not to chat and am just looking out of curiosity, this is rather irritating.
     
    Vorona, Mar 21, 2013
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  17. Gaear

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    After you open it, click on the banner again and it will go away. :)
     
    Gaear, Mar 21, 2013
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  18. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    It was used quite a lot initially... not sure if much lately as I haven't really chatted much. But it's not an on-demand service, obviously people need to check into the chatroom and stay there for a bit before the others join as well. You're not going to get a bunch of users all come in at exactly the same time and start chatting. We'd need to have arranged chat sessions for that.

    As for the site being unresponsive due to it, I doubt that's due to the chatroom - more likely the Facebook plugin BTA's complained about before. I'm not seeing any lag in Firefox. Which browser do you use?

    Just clicking on the title bar or the chatroom button again will close it - it works like that for all the chat windows. That way you can stay logged in and will see alerts pop up as soon as someone posts, but don't need to keep the window open.
     
    Taluntain, Mar 21, 2013
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  19. 8people

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    [​IMG] Even I'm not seeing lag at the moment and I've made an effort to be in the FAI for as much as I'm free online. Even keeping a spare tab open still just to leave it open. It even worked properly when Facebook didn't work at all on Firefox for me.
     
    8people, Mar 21, 2013
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  20. chevalier

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    Please hug Sorvo from me when the chatroom's up.
     
    chevalier, Apr 2, 2013
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