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As we've moved back to Blab, features are still being fixed and added. Feel free to suggest stuff here.
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For learning all the Blab commands and features, please see:
Blab Commands and Features (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/blab-commands-and-features/)
All issues and feature requests should be reported via the community issue tracker:
Community Issue Tracker (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-bugs-suggestions-and-feedback/elements-community-site-issue-tracker/)
I split this topic off from:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/customizing-elements-chat/
"Customizing Elements Chat" was about customizing your message colors and getting an avatar, etc.
This topic will be about customizing the Blab software itself. I will post changes to Blab as replies to this topic. I will also build up a change log below for major additions and deletions of features. Bug fixes and minor changes will be left out.
Change Log:
- October 2013
- Added card tags, same usage as forum
- Added deck tags, same usage as forum
- December 03, 2013 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1113138/#msg1113138)
- Added guest access with restricted usernames
- Created initial guest username system
- December 27, 2013 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1117512/#msg1117512)
- January 11, 2014 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1120518/#msg1120518)
- Added tab complete
- Added inline highlight
- Added join/leave messages
- January 12, 2014 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1120695/#msg1120695)
- opt+click and alt+click now hide media objects such as image/deck/video/card/painting
- Added AveragePotato alerts for new forum posts
- Added on-demand hide tools for media objects, join/leave messages, and AveragePotato messages
- January 21, 2014 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1122344/#msg1122344)
- Added Web Notifications API support for highlighted messages (does not notify if you are set as Away)
- September 17th, 2015 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1206011/#msg1206011)
- AveragePotato is no longer personal, he shows the most recent public post to everyone in actual chat. Everyone sees the same message.
- PrivatePotato is private, the messages you see from him are to you only and show the latest post from any private forums to which you have access.
- You can now poke PrivatePotato to have him show the latest private post regardless of whether he has shown it to you before.
- You can now hide/show (toggle) instead of just hide various aspects of chat. Added to this is the ability to toggle in-chat private messages.
- Various Notification issues were fixed including the enable notifications button.
- Banned users who have had their ban expire could no longer join chat. This has been fixed.
- A joke /quit was added. This will be made properly at some point in the future.
- Admins now have a special colored name in the Online list so that new users can more quickly identify to whom to escalate issues.
- Two new emoticons were added, :sillyspin: and :awesome:
- Chat Profiles (clicking on a username in the Online list) now include IGN, Favorite Element, and Pronoun, as well as general reformatting.
- September 22nd, 2015 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1206723/#msg1206723)
- You now only get highlighted if your username in a message matches exactly your username, capitalization matters, it can't be a substring of another word
- AveragePotato has increased his vocabulary
- Potatoes are now slightly faster
- The Elements database now does auto-backups at 10:31 UTC
- September 29th, 2015 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1207698/#msg1207698)
- /quit now actually logs you out, a simple /quit still shows the old joke message, /quit <message> allows for a custom quit message
- You can now add more words to highlight/notify you in your Account Settings (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/profile/?area=account)
- October 1st, 2015 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1208034/#msg1208034)
- Guests can now be highlighted by their creature name. This is case-sensitive.
- Tab-complete now works for guest creature names. This is case-insensitive.
- October 26th, 2015 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1212452/#msg1212452)
- Added support for AsciiMath (http://asciimath.org/).
- December 23rd, 2015 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1218647/#msg1218647)
- Added support for /card and /card X (where X is a number between 1 and 7).
- December 27th, 2015 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1218838/#msg1218838)
- Fixed issue where Hide Media, J/L, PM, Potato, and All would not keep new items hidden.
- History updates! Bigger panel, better options for time periods, and a Go To Page feature.
- Added /money, /money balance, /money set X, /money add X, and /money sub X.
- Added /eightball <question>.
- July 12, 2016 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1237516/#msg1237516)
- Put AveragePotato in Tourney room (filtered to only show posts in Tourney board).
- July 20, 2016 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1238393/#msg1238393)
- Masters can now go invisible.
- Invisible users can now PM other users.
- Users receiving PMs (from invisible & visible users) can now open the PM window by clicking on the username in the PM itself.
- November 17, 2016 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1251619/#msg1251619)
- Added the ability to draw Elements cards with the /card command.
- Added subforum to AveragePotato messages.
- November 20, 2016 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1251902/#msg1251902)
- Users without a primary user group now use their post group.
- Forum members no longer show their user group as Member, instead showing the primary user group or post group.
- Guests are now in a Guest group which has its own separate permissions.
- Anyone with the Chat Moderator group, whether set as a primary or additional user group, will be able to moderate chat and go invisible.
- December 9, 2016 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1253082/#msg1253082)
- All forum groups are now matched with a corresponding Blab group.
- Blab group names now match the color of the forum group names.
- You can now post a deck code without the deck tag and it will still generate an image, but only for decks with 30 cards minimum.
- Added greentext.
- Fixed apostrophes in links.
- Links now use the anchor tag and target is _blank to use a new window/tab.
- December 21, 2016 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1253900/#msg1253900)
- Added ways to get boilerplate help from AveragePotato
- You can no longer ping yourself.
- December 22, 2016 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1253930/#msg1253930)
- Added the first version of the skyroll™ game to /roll
- January 4, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1254651/#msg1254651)
- Fixed the italics issue for mentions where the right guillemet was missing
- Fixed links without a protocol acting as relative links
- Starting a line with / will prevent links from being parsed
- Images can now be embedded with /img
- Images that are embedded without a url will instead use the input as a search with Google Images, returning the first result
- added /gif and [gif]
- January 6, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1254786/#msg1254786)
- January 11, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1255152/#msg1255152)
- Changed the old /card to /draw
- January 11, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1255152/#msg1255152)
- Changed the old /card to /draw
- January 12, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1255188/#msg1255188)
- January 17, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1255355/#msg1255355)
- Added /first and /last so you can lookup the first and last message of a user
- Added /pingjoin /pingsay /pj /ps so you can be notified when a user joins or speaks/acts
- Added /pinglist and /pl so you can list your current pings
- January 18, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1256561/#msg1256561)
- Added /xkcd
- Fixed chat toggles when no user found
- Added number formatting to /rollinfo
- PrivatePotato is lazier if you don't have private board access
- January 23, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1255820/#msg1255820)
- The /first and /last commands now use the user id
- Added /issue command to share the Bitbucket issue tracker for the community software
- January 27, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1256561/#msg1256561)
- Added a local computer time synchronizer to the roll timer
- Added PrivatePotato messages for the roll timer
- January 31, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1256561/#msg1256561)
- Added live timer to roll timer icon, toggle visibility on click
- February 2, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1256561/#msg1256561)
- Added button for user tag in forum post editor
- February 4, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1256561/#msg1256561)
- Added /r as shortcut for /roll, add /rr as a way to roll without logging to skyroll
- Added /ri as shortcut for /rollinfo
- Completely overhauled rollinfo to give more info and use proper grammar and tense depending on whether the set was completed
- Added a way to check dice count to rollinfo (e.g. /ri 1d)
- Fixed /pingjoin and /pingsay to work with dashed names
- February 5, 2017 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/taming-the-wild-blab/msg1256561/#msg1256561)
- Use dice icon to not only toggle visibility of timer, but also PrivatePotato messages
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It would be nice to have a plain text mode: no colored font, italics or bold, pictures, smilies and similar appearing as code and not as pictures (just to not have to look at those pictures :p). Oh, and a background that supports Dark text colors.
It may also be an idea to have sounds disabled by default since for people new to the chat I can imagine it being very... annoying until you find a way to turn it off.
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It would be nice to have a plain text mode: no colored font, italics or bold, pictures, smilies and similar appearing as code and not as pictures (just to not have to look at those pictures :p). Oh, and a background that supports Dark text colors.
It may also be an idea to have sounds disabled by default since for people new to the chat I can imagine it being very... annoying until you find a way to turn it off.
My eyes agree with this sentiment.
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What they said. If possible, lighten the background so black and white both look good on it.
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Being able to see people log into or out of chat would be nice. Being able to toggle whether to see people log into or out of chat would be even nicer. Resurrecting the new-post marquee (or announcing new posts in chat or something else that accomplishes the same thing) would be downright fantastic.
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It would be nice to have a plain text mode: no colored font, italics or bold, pictures, smilies and similar appearing as code and not as pictures (just to not have to look at those pictures :p). Oh, and a background that supports Dark text colors.
It may also be an idea to have sounds disabled by default since for people new to the chat I can imagine it being very... annoying until you find a way to turn it off.
What they said. If possible, lighten the background so black and white both look good on it.
Being able to see people log into or out of chat would be nice. Being able to toggle whether to see people log into or out of chat would be even nicer. Resurrecting the new-post marquee (or announcing new posts in chat or something else that accomplishes the same thing) would be downright fantastic.
In other words, make it more-or-less exactly like the IRC you just took away from us.
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IRC was there one month after my birth, before I made a channel on ext3, and will still be there in 10 years. As will our channel on the network that I made. I've taken nothing, but I did create one thing and introduced many to a wonderful protocol.
It was an easy choice to switch back considering how many users we lost by moving to IRC. Forum traffic is very important and it should come as no surprise that most users aren't very tech-savvy or just don't want to deal with learning a new chat protocol.
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IRC was there one month after my birth, before I made a channel on ext3, and will still be there in 10 years. As will our channel on the network that I made. I've taken nothing, but I did create one thing and introduced many to a wonderful protocol.
It was an easy choice to switch back considering how many users we lost by moving to IRC. Forum traffic is very important and it should come as no surprise that most users aren't very tech-savvy or just don't want to deal with learning a new chat protocol.
When we switched from the old chat to the new I thought it was a bad thing. But several months later I've gotten used to the new chat and I can see the benefits of the new chat and personally I think benefits over shine the disadvantages.
Benefits with new caht compared to the old
1: YOu can ping
2: Pm's open in new tabs at the same page instead opening a new window
3: Easier to read( minor benefit )
4: You can see when people log on and of
Benfits with the old chat
1: You can change your color
2: The layout is looking much better
3: You can see how many posts the persons made in chat + if they got a title.
4: You can pm in chat log.
5: You can mute people
6: You can post pics.
Both benefit and disadvantage
You can change your name
I don't say we should switch back to the new chat, I just think it's worth having this in mind.
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IRC was there one month after my birth, before I made a channel on ext3, and will still be there in 10 years. As will our channel on the network that I made. I've taken nothing, but I did create one thing and introduced many to a wonderful protocol.
It was an easy choice to switch back considering how many users we lost by moving to IRC. Forum traffic is very important and it should come as no surprise that most users aren't very tech-savvy or just don't want to deal with learning a new chat protocol.
When we switched from the old chat to the new I thought it was a bad thing. But several months later I've gotten used to the new chat and I can see the benefits of the new chat and personally I think benefits over shine the disadvantages.
Benefits with new caht compared to the old
1: YOu can ping
2: Pm's open in new tabs at the same page instead opening a new window
3: Easier to read( minor benefit )
4: You can see when people log on and of
Benfits with the old chat
1: You can change your color
2: The layout is looking much better
3: You can see how many posts the persons made in chat + if they got a title.
4: You can pm in chat log.
5: You can mute people
6: You can post pics.
Both benefit and disadvantage
You can change your name
I don't say we should switch back to the new chat, I just think it's worth having this in mind.
Additional benefit to blab: It's hosted by us and not reliant on the IRC protocol, so it can be updated to include more or less whatever we feel like, including everything you listed as a benefit of IRC over this.
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IRC was there one month after my birth, before I made a channel on ext3, and will still be there in 10 years. As will our channel on the network that I made. I've taken nothing, but I did create one thing and introduced many to a wonderful protocol.
It was an easy choice to switch back considering how many users we lost by moving to IRC. Forum traffic is very important and it should come as no surprise that most users aren't very tech-savvy or just don't want to deal with learning a new chat protocol.
When we switched from the old chat to the new I thought it was a bad thing. But several months later I've gotten used to the new chat and I can see the benefits of the new chat and personally I think benefits over shine the disadvantages.
Benefits with new caht compared to the old
1: YOu can ping
2: Pm's open in new tabs at the same page instead opening a new window
3: Easier to read( minor benefit )
4: You can see when people log on and of
Benfits with the old chat
1: You can change your color
2: The layout is looking much better
3: You can see how many posts the persons made in chat + if they got a title.
4: You can pm in chat log.
5: You can mute people
6: You can post pics.
Both benefit and disadvantage
You can change your name
I don't say we should switch back to the new chat, I just think it's worth having this in mind.
Additional benefit to blab: It's hosted by us and not reliant on the IRC protocol, so it can be updated to include more or less whatever we feel like, including everything you listed as a benefit of IRC over this.
Great:) I didn't dare to hope for that but that was partly why I made that post. ANd thank you for info color
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The old Blab chat is back up! Our IRC channel will remain, but unmoderated as we can't afford to divide our main chat.
IRC was there one month after my birth, before I made a channel on ext3, and will still be there in 10 years. As will our channel on the network that I made. I've taken nothing, but I did create one thing and introduced many to a wonderful protocol.
So, the thing we were using is still there, but we don't care about it anymore and are officially ignoring it. For all practical purposes, it no longer exists, because all official announcements will happen in the new place. But we didn't take away anything.
Makes perfect sense to me.
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IRC was there one month after my birth, before I made a channel on ext3, and will still be there in 10 years. As will our channel on the network that I made. I've taken nothing, but I did create one thing and introduced many to a wonderful protocol.
It was an easy choice to switch back considering how many users we lost by moving to IRC. Forum traffic is very important and it should come as no surprise that most users aren't very tech-savvy or just don't want to deal with learning a new chat protocol.
When we switched from the old chat to the new I thought it was a bad thing. But several months later I've gotten used to the new chat and I can see the benefits of the new chat and personally I think benefits over shine the disadvantages.
Benefits with new caht compared to the old
1: YOu can ping
2: Pm's open in new tabs at the same page instead opening a new window
3: Easier to read( minor benefit )
4: You can see when people log on and of
Benfits with the old chat
1: You can change your color
2: The layout is looking much better
3: You can see how many posts the persons made in chat + if they got a title.
4: You can pm in chat log.
5: You can mute people
6: You can post pics.
Both benefit and disadvantage
You can change your name
I don't say we should switch back to the new chat, I just think it's worth having this in mind.
Additional benefit to blab: It's hosted by us and not reliant on the IRC protocol, so it can be updated to include more or less whatever we feel like, including everything you listed as a benefit of IRC over this.
If you're right, CG, then all the beneficial aspects of IRC should be programmed in to the blab chat. Who is it that needs the forum-Inbox input for making this happen?
:)
(That solution seems win-win to me... Or maybe win-win-win?) /TheOfficeisawesome
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IRC was there one month after my birth, before I made a channel on ext3, and will still be there in 10 years. As will our channel on the network that I made. I've taken nothing, but I did create one thing and introduced many to a wonderful protocol.
It was an easy choice to switch back considering how many users we lost by moving to IRC. Forum traffic is very important and it should come as no surprise that most users aren't very tech-savvy or just don't want to deal with learning a new chat protocol.
When we switched from the old chat to the new I thought it was a bad thing. But several months later I've gotten used to the new chat and I can see the benefits of the new chat and personally I think benefits over shine the disadvantages.
Benefits with new caht compared to the old
1: YOu can ping
2: Pm's open in new tabs at the same page instead opening a new window
3: Easier to read( minor benefit )
4: You can see when people log on and of
Benfits with the old chat
1: You can change your color
2: The layout is looking much better
3: You can see how many posts the persons made in chat + if they got a title.
4: You can pm in chat log.
5: You can mute people
6: You can post pics.
Both benefit and disadvantage
You can change your name
I don't say we should switch back to the new chat, I just think it's worth having this in mind.
Additional benefit to blab: It's hosted by us and not reliant on the IRC protocol, so it can be updated to include more or less whatever we feel like, including everything you listed as a benefit of IRC over this.
If you're right, CG, then all the beneficial aspects of IRC should be programmed in to the blab chat. Who is it that needs the forum-Inbox input for making this happen?
:)
(That solution seems win-win to me... Or maybe win-win-win?) /TheOfficeisawesome
As we've moved back to Blab, features are still being fixed and added. Feel free to suggest stuff here.
That'd be this very thread, good sir.
edit: To the best of my knowledge, antiaverage is the one who is more or less actively doing updates.
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The old Blab chat is back up! Our IRC channel will remain, but unmoderated as we can't afford to divide our main chat.
IRC was there one month after my birth, before I made a channel on ext3, and will still be there in 10 years. As will our channel on the network that I made. I've taken nothing, but I did create one thing and introduced many to a wonderful protocol.
So, the thing we were using is still there, but we don't care about it anymore and are officially ignoring it. For all practical purposes, it no longer exists, because all official announcements will happen in the new place. But we didn't take away anything.
Makes perfect sense to me.
I'm not ignoring it, but it would indeed hurt activity to divide what the forum would regard as our main chat. I'm not sure who "we" are, but practically speaking it certainly exists. "Exist" really isn't the word you'd wanna be using if you want to make some kind of argument here, but I'm further unsure as to what that argument is.
No, I didn't take away anything. I created something, and it's still there. I also coached dozens of users on the use of IRC in an effort to make it easier to use for people, AND for the joy of introducing a protocol that has been with me for many, many years.
If prioritizing forum traffic when this forum runs on ad money doesn't make sense to you... then I get the feeling it's not the reason that's not making sense.
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If prioritizing forum traffic when this forum runs on ad money doesn't make sense to you... then I get the feeling it's not the reason that's not making sense.
I'm not seeing any ads on the forum, and I don't have any ad blocking software installed. Should I be seeing ads?
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The old Blab chat is back up! Our IRC channel will remain, but unmoderated as we can't afford to divide our main chat.
IRC was there one month after my birth, before I made a channel on ext3, and will still be there in 10 years. As will our channel on the network that I made. I've taken nothing, but I did create one thing and introduced many to a wonderful protocol.
So, the thing we were using is still there, but we don't care about it anymore and are officially ignoring it. For all practical purposes, it no longer exists, because all official announcements will happen in the new place. But we didn't take away anything.
Makes perfect sense to me.
I'm not ignoring it, but it would indeed hurt activity to divide what the forum would regard as our main chat. I'm not sure who "we" are, but practically speaking it certainly exists. "Exist" really isn't the word you'd wanna be using if you want to make some kind of argument here, but I'm further unsure as to what that argument is.
No, I didn't take away anything. I created something, and it's still there. I also coached dozens of users on the use of IRC in an effort to make it easier to use for people, AND for the joy of introducing a protocol that has been with me for many, many years.
If prioritizing forum traffic when this forum runs on ad money doesn't make sense to you... then I get the feeling it's not the reason that's not making sense.
I'm the one who's not making sense. I have no idea what I'm talking about. Ignore everything I wrote on the subject, and pretend it never happened.
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Last time we had a blab (iirc) people could log on as guests without needing to sign up for a forum account. I get that the forum is rad and we want people to sign up for forum accounts, but rather than having chat redirect to a forum login page when someone without an account tries to access it, could we please resume allowing guests? Most of the time when people hit that login screen (with no explanation of anything on it, btw) they're just gonna close out of it rather than going through a whole signup process. There is an in-game link to this chat - we shouldn't force people to sign up for the forums in order to ask a quick question or to get a look at the fact that there's a community for this game. If the community makes a good enough impression of the guests, they'll make an account and join the community then.
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Last time we had a blab (iirc) people could log on as guests without needing to sign up for a forum account. I get that the forum is rad and we want people to sign up for forum accounts, but rather than having chat redirect to a forum login page when someone without an account tries to access it, could we please resume allowing guests? Most of the time when people hit that login screen (with no explanation of anything on it, btw) they're just gonna close out of it rather than going through a whole signup process. There is an in-game link to this chat - we shouldn't force people to sign up for the forums in order to ask a quick question or to get a look at the fact that there's a community for this game. If the community makes a good enough impression of the guests, they'll make an account and join the community then.
Agreed. Disallowing guests just goes against the very thing Higurashi just argued for, more trafficing to the forum. I see no reason to disallow guests if we have a good moderation system, and if we don't have a good enough moderation system for it then it is the moderation that requires improvement.
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Last time we had a blab (iirc) people could log on as guests without needing to sign up for a forum account. I get that the forum is rad and we want people to sign up for forum accounts, but rather than having chat redirect to a forum login page when someone without an account tries to access it, could we please resume allowing guests? Most of the time when people hit that login screen (with no explanation of anything on it, btw) they're just gonna close out of it rather than going through a whole signup process. There is an in-game link to this chat - we shouldn't force people to sign up for the forums in order to ask a quick question or to get a look at the fact that there's a community for this game. If the community makes a good enough impression of the guests, they'll make an account and join the community then.
Agreed. Disallowing guests just goes against the very thing Higurashi just argued for, more trafficing to the forum. I see no reason to disallow guests if we have a good moderation system, and if we don't have a good enough moderation system for it then it is the moderation that requires improvement.
+1
And, in addition to this, it's my understanding that anyone with a prominent staff position on the forums is also a chat moderator, with the exception of a few groups of people. I say we allow guests, and if security isn't tight enough, we can easily get more moderators :P
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Nope, only Chatmods are Chatmods.
Guest access was enabled long ago. No need to keep quoting the same suggestion.
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Toggleable settings for disabling image preview (or possibly just for disabling gif animation in thumbnails)?
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Guest access was enabled long ago. No need to keep quoting the same suggestion.
Guest access is not currently enabled. Going to chat while not logged in redirects to a forum login/create-an-account page, still with no explanation.
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Guest access is not currently enabled. Going to chat while not logged in redirects to a forum login/create-an-account page, still with no explanation.
(http://i.imgur.com/BQtodb2.png)
The problem is that guests are still redirected to the forum login. When I change it to the Blab login, it allows guests to set their nick and impersonate other users. Not sure what to do about that, so haven't fixed that redirect.
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Open chat from any source, while not logged in to forums, and it redirects you to the forum login page. Thus, regardless of whether guest access is allowed or not, guests cannot enter chat.
EDIT: aa is an edit ninja.
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If you aren't logged in to the forums, you can now still join chat and get a random Guest nick. Guests are automatically cleaned out if they leave and forgot to log out. They can also click a giant Logout button at the top of the screen to force the clean up and be redirected to the forums. If you accidentally log in as a guest, just click the giant Logout button at the top of the screen and you will be redirected to the login page for the forums. Just log in and click Chat -> Blab (Official Chat).
Modifying Blab is such a pain... it's a mess. Hopefully this is working fine, but please report any bugs to me.
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If you aren't logged in to the forums, you can now still join chat and get a random Guest nick. Guests are automatically cleaned out if they leave and forgot to log out. They can also click a giant Logout button at the top of the screen to force the clean up and be redirected to the forums. If you accidentally log in as a guest, just click the giant Logout button at the top of the screen and you will be redirected to the login page for the forums. Just log in and click Chat -> Blab (Official Chat).
Modifying Blab is such a pain... it's a mess. Hopefully this is working fine, but please report any bugs to me.
Thank you anti! :)
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Don't feel like making a new thread, so I'll just drop this here.
(http://i.imgur.com/f7uEABx.png)
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Don't feel like making a new thread, so I'll just drop this here.
(http://i.imgur.com/f7uEABx.png)
Looks like irc and blab are slowly merging together...
Got a command list for future reference?
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There is now a lovely /me command, much better than the test versions posted early by ddevans96 :P
Also, /roll and /p no longer break links or messages where they show up in the middle, and neither does the new /me command
Also, /roll has been shrunk to be less spammy
The /me command is a way to express action. For example, you can now type the following into chat:
/me tries out the new /me command
The /roll command let's you roll some dice. You type xdy where x is the number of dice and y is the number of faces on each die. For example, to roll four 12-sided dice:
/roll 4d12
The /p command is what let's you post existing paintings from other users. You type /p along with the painting number. For example:
/p8
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Random chat bug: Putting two different card tags on the same line results in displaying two copies of the first card.
i.e. typing [cardx]Pest[/cardx] [cardx]Armagio[/cardx] results in displaying two copies of pest.
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Random chat bug: Putting two different card tags on the same line results in displaying two copies of the first card.
i.e. typing [cardx]Pest[/cardx] [cardx]Armagio[/cardx] results in displaying two copies of pest.
Fixed.
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How about adding a "suffix" command or something similar as a way to get the benefits of /nick without the drawbacks? I'm thinking adding either an option in panels or just a /suffix chat command that would give people with a registered account a like ten character string they can set after their name. When set, it would just display after their normal forum name and a dash.
e.g. I type "/suffix afk" and then when I talk, it says "ColorlessGreen-afk: blah blah spam blah". In addition to AFK and such, it's also quite handy for suffixing "BL" or "CL" or "tournament" or whatever.
Basically, most/all of the benefits to user-settable nicks without the who's-who and impersonation and namechange spam problems.
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How about adding a "suffix" command or something similar as a way to get the benefits of /nick without the drawbacks? I'm thinking adding either an option in panels or just a /suffix chat command that would give people with a registered account a like ten character string they can set after their name. When set, it would just display after their normal forum name and a dash.
e.g. I type "/suffix afk" and then when I talk, it says "ColorlessGreen-afk: blah blah spam blah". In addition to AFK and such, it's also quite handy for suffixing "BL" or "CL" or "tournament" or whatever.
Basically, most/all of the benefits to user-settable nicks without the who's-who and impersonation and namechange spam problems.
Seconded. Though, I hardly use them except what is already the 'Away/Online' thing, I see good use in this, particularly those of tournament stuff.
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I propose having a ping command. EtG chat needs /ping Higurashi
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added tab complete
you can now type a portion of the start of someone's name then press tab to have it autocompleted for you
if there are multiple possibilities, you can keep pressing tab to cycle through the results, or shift+tab to cycle backwards through the results
for example, if the list of users is:
apple, banana, orange, papaya, pineapple, pomegranate, watermelon
if you type
hello p
then press TAB, the message will become
hello papaya
if you press TAB again, the message will become
hello pineapple
and again...
hello pomegranate
but then if you press shift+tab, the message will now become
hello pineapple
etc.
in addition, if your username appears in a public message, the line will be highlighted
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tab complete now adds <@> if the name is the first thing you have added or only <@> have been added before it
for example, if the list of users is:
apple, banana, orange, papaya, pineapple, pomegranate, watermelon
if you type
p
then press TAB, the message will become
<@papaya>
if you press TAB again, the message will become
<@pineapple>
if you type
<@pineapple> p
then press TAB, the message will become
<@pineapple> <@papaya>
if you type
<@pineapple> <@papaya> where is p
then press shift+TAB, the message will become
<@pineapple> <@papaya> where is pomegranate
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I can't give you more +rep becaue I already gave you my last one
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I can't give you more +rep becaue I already gave you my last one
I gotcha covered
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Added join/leave messages so it's easier to see who is joining and leaving.
These only appear in chat, they are not saved to history.
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When you press anti + TAB, "<@antiaverage>" is written. It would be better if "<@antiaverage> " was written. What's the difference? that little space in the end you don't have to type before writing :)
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When you press anti + TAB, "<@antiaverage>" is written. It would be better if "<@antiaverage> " was written. What's the difference? that little space in the end you don't have to type before writing :)
I considered this, but decided against it. I'll revisit this at some point.
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You can now opt+click or alt+click an image/deck/video/card/painting to hide it. Click on Rooms and then the room you were in to show it again.
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AveragePotato has returned to chat and will announce if a new forum post has appeared in the last 3 minutes. If not, he won't say anything.
Let me know if 3 minutes feels right. I can throttle this to just about anything.
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Added a few tools at the top of chat now. This let's you hide media (images, paintings, videos, cards, decks), left/joined messages, and AveragePotato messages on and off. Unfortunately with how Blab works, new stuff will still show, but I can fix this at some point.
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Fixed a bug where links with a single quote (') would make AveragePotato links unclickable
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A tilde (~) breaks posted urls.
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Added a few tools at the top of chat now. This let's you hide media (images, paintings, videos, cards, decks), left/joined messages, and AveragePotato messages on and off. Unfortunately with how Blab works, new stuff will still show, but I can fix this at some point.
Dude, you rock!
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Added a notification system using the Web Notifications API:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Using_Web_Notifications#Browser_compatibility
This will only work for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari users, maybe the latest version of Opera, and most likely not at all for Internet Explorer (stop using that).
Make sure you refresh Blab to get the latest JavaScript file. Then, click the "Enable Notifications" link at the top of the page. You'll be prompted to allow notifications. Once allowed, you'll be all set.
You will only receive notifications if Blab is not your currently active tab and you are not away. The notifications are triggered by a highlight, which is currently your Blab username. This means it works for normal messages, /me messages, and inline private messages (not private message windows).
If you accidentally clicked disallow or you want to undo a previous disallow:
Chrome (copy+paste into URL bar) -> chrome://settings/contentExceptions#notifications
Firefox -> http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permissions-manager-give-ability-store-passwords-set-cookies-more
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Join/Leave messages now respect your ignores, so if you have someone on ignore, you won't see their join/leave messages
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Small OCD little thing. The /me thing colors your name in pink. But it colors your text if it is plain white. Can it either do it for all colors (my preference), or just do the name for whiteys.
EDIT: Or just make your name your chat text color.
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EDIT: Or just make your name your chat text color.
This is probably what I'd most like to do.
Those who haven't set a color being all pink is intentional. I was tempted to do it that way for everyone regardless of color, but got some negative feedback and it wasn't important.
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Yeah, I kinda prefer your name being your color since it would prevent a bunch of pink madness. (I meant to note that, but of the two I originally thought of, all pink seemed reasonable.)
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Wait, the /me changes the color of your username!?
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I do not have a browser which support this new fancy notification/ping/whatever thing. When I get notified while using another tab, an error pop-up comes up, redirects me to EtG chat and stops me in whatever I'm doing. Is there a way to disable that?
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I do not have a browser which support this new fancy notification/ping/whatever thing. When I get notified while using another tab, an error pop-up comes up, redirects me to EtG chat and stops me in whatever I'm doing. Is there a way to disable that?
Thank you for the issue report. What browser are you using?
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I do not have a browser which support this new fancy notification/ping/whatever thing. When I get notified while using another tab, an error pop-up comes up, redirects me to EtG chat and stops me in whatever I'm doing. Is there a way to disable that?
Thank you for the issue report. What browser are you using?
Safari 6.1 (mac)
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Safari 6.1 (mac)
Safari started supporting notifications with Safari 6 but only on Mac OSX 10.8+ (Mountain Lion) and later.
Are you on an OS prior to Mountain Lion? In the meantime, I'll look into a way to make sure it doesn't send you an error.
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I don't know if I am the only one that thinks this, but the deck images kinda ruins the caht for me.
Once I have those in the chat feed, the autoscrolling doesn't work. The same is true for every medai, but the deck image shows up pretty often. On top of that, you can't even see the deck properly without clicking on it, so a link would be just as good.
I can just press hide media to remove them, but then I can't see the deck at all if I'd want to later. If you don't want it removed, is it possible to replace it with a dek.im ink when you click hide media?
Yes, I have noticed those images being an issue, too. Hiding them into a link is a good idea. I will look in to that.
Edit: done, hiding media with decks present will convert the deck images into links
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Bug : Clicking "Hide All" does not hide deck images, and only upon clicking "Hide Media" are they actually hidden (turned into deck links.)
Unrelated :
Join/Leave messages now respect your ignores, so if you have someone on ignore, you won't see their join/leave messages
Suddenly, everyone ignores Dm
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Adding support so that instants buttons can be posted in chat and activated without going to another tab would be cool.
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Psychologically black isn't a great color for a chat, which is why I prefer kong chat but stick with blab chat because i find the material thats spoken about more interesting in blab.
I was wondering if you could make it so individuals could change the background color, or does programming not allow that and it has to be a system-wide color background?
I talked with AA about this, and he didn't want to change the color background because its the elements background color, but I'm suggesting it here as something to be changed individually. Honestly I feel people would get less annoyed with me if I impacted myself better psychologically.
With the default being the color it is now, of course.
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Black rather than white does save battery power and reduce eyestrain.
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Black rather than white does save battery power and reduce eyestrain.
i feel like the eye strain is dependent on the time of day and the weather outside your house if your comp is on a window sill. As for battery power, some of us keep our comps on our charger. Anyway, with my suggestion im hoping it wouldn't have to be a world wide change and could rather be a setting, like changing your color text.
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Seems a nice update, what about our saved messages and stuff?
Will that change as well?
What about avatar?
What about uploading images, or that must be done still through link.
Thank you.
Always an ETG fan.
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I forgot to update this topic with recent changes. Here is my attempt to remember what all has changed recently.
- AveragePotato is no longer personal, he shows the most recent public post to everyone in actual chat. Everyone sees the same message.
- PrivatePotato is private, the messages you see from him are to you only and show the latest post from any private forums to which you have access.
- You can now poke PrivatePotato to have him show the latest private post regardless of whether he has shown it to you before.
- You can now hide/show (toggle) instead of just hide various aspects of chat. Added to this is the ability to toggle in-chat private messages.
- Various Notification issues were fixed including the enable notifications button.
- Banned users who have had their ban expire could no longer join chat. This has been fixed.
- A joke /quit was added. This will be made properly at some point in the future.
- Admins now have a special colored name in the Online list so that new users can more quickly identify to whom to escalate issues.
- Two new emoticons were added, :sillyspin: and :awesome:
- Chat Profiles (clicking on a username in the Online list) now include IGN, Favorite Element, and Pronoun, as well as general reformatting.
I may be forgetting some things...
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- You now only get highlighted if your username in a message matches exactly your username, capitalization matters, it can't be a substring of another word
- AveragePotato has increased his vocabulary
- Potatoes are now slightly faster
- The Elements database now does auto-backups at 10:31 UTC
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- You now only get highlighted if your username in a message matches exactly your username, capitalization matters, it can't be a substring of another word
- AveragePotato has increased his vocabulary
- Potatoes are now slightly faster
- The Elements database now does auto-backups at 10:31 UTC
;D
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- You now only get highlighted if your username in a message matches exactly your username, capitalization matters, it can't be a substring of another word
Cool, the Scunthorpe Problem is no longer a problem :p - AveragePotato has increased his vocabulary
I think we can get rid all the foreign Waldo Potatoes. Other than that, cool. - Potatoes are now slightly faster
- The Elements database now does auto-backups at 10:31 UTC
And I thought Treld told me that auto-backups was at 0631 UTC. :/
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And I thought Treld told me that auto-backups was at 0631 UTC. :/[/li][/list]
That's 06:31 UTC-4, or EST, at least until November 1st (my timezone)
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- You now only get highlighted if your username in a message matches exactly your username, capitalization matters, it can't be a substring of another word
Could this be customizable? For example, can I specify that I want to be notified on "UTAlan", "Alan", and "UTA"?
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Could this be customizable? For example, can I specify that I want to be notified on "UTAlan", "Alan", and "UTA"?
I've had "highlight list" on my TODO for some time. I would love this, too. I've mostly just been lazy about creating a way for a user to input and save that list of highlight words.
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That would be extremely awesome.
You could also use this as notification, e.g. if AP posts something in a specific topic.
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+1 for highlight list
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Highlights tentatively added to Account Settings (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/profile/?area=account). Try it out and let me know how it goes. You may need to refresh chat whenever you change your highlights.
also, /quit has been implemented, but don't tell rob
You could also use this as notification, e.g. if AP posts something in a specific topic.
AP can't highlight/notify you, otherwise you would get highlighted/notified every time you made a post.
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/me reads the fine print! :) (but not invisible print... so if there is any of that, I'm in the dark)
:P
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Just for kicks and giggles, can we have a "/jokequit"?
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Just for kicks and giggles, can we have a "/jokequit"?
Just do /quit without adding a message.
Alright, basically done with the highlights feature. Just to recap, you can add a list of comma separated words (with or without spaces) for Highlights to your Account Settings (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/profile/?area=account). The words are case-sensitive, e.g. if you add Bob keep in mind that bob will not cause a highlight/notice. Remember that partial matches won't count, so dm will not match admin. NOTICE: You must refresh Chat in order for any changes to your highlights to work.
Additionally, the /quit feature is basically done. If you type /quit goodbye!, the message goodbye! will be sent to chat, and you will be logged out of chat and redirected to the Forums. You can type any message after /quit that you would like. If you type /quit without a message, then the old joke message will be sent to chat. If you try to use /quit while invisible, no message will be sent to chat.
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Guests can now be highlighted/notified via just their creature name. This is case-sensitive.
Tab-complete now works for the creature name of a guest. This is case-insensitive.
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Perhaps have a horizontal rule be auto-posted when nobody's spoken for minute or 30 secs or something like that?
Or perhaps have it dependent on the frequency of messages... I don't know how that'd work. Perhaps simpler is better ;D
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Math enthusiasts and homework grumps can now communicate better with http://asciimath.org/ support :)
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Formal request:
- Flag-setting for leagues
- ping-by-painting / highlight-by-painting
- *good reminder AD! --> my 3rd item was a real, non-crap, non-junky, less-janky, and usable chat history feature/function... the current one is hideous and anything beyond 2 hours is a disaster to find/retrieve.
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Math enthusiasts and homework grumps can now communicate better with http://asciimath.org/ support :)
Yay
- ping-by-painting / highlight-by-painting
How would this work? I paint "rob" and you get pinged? How would it recognise what I wrote/painted?
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- ping-by-painting / highlight-by-painting
How would this work? I paint "rob" and you get pinged? How would it recognise what I wrote/painted?
I set my profile to ping me for Paintings #1,10,38,310,1018 (randomly selected values here). In blab chat somebody inserts painting #17 into chat nothing happens. In blab chat somebody inserts painting #10 into chat I am highlight / pinged (not sure which it could/should/users-would-like to be).
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I honestly would prefer that History be improved. That's my biggest pet peeve right now.
Also, could Panels please have the same pallet design as the Color button on the bottom?
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I honestly would prefer that History be improved. That's my biggest pet peeve right now.
I agree that chat history is a mess. ^^" In case you want a shorter and easier to implement feature, antiaverage, then I suggest a Magic Eight Ball feature. :)
It would work like /eightball! "Insert question here", and then it would reply with Yes/No/Other options except maybe.
Here is an example: http://www.indra.com/cgi-bin/spikes-8-ball
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The highlight list seems to ignore everything after the 64th non-space character.
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The highlight list seems to ignore everything after the 64th non-space character.
No one needs that many highlights, so I doubt I will be fixing this. I appreciate the bug report, however, and will add it to my list to test for further issues.
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Bug : If a post is made, AP highlights it, then another is made in the same thread but then deleted, the preceding post is eligible for AP highlight again.
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May I request bringing back the feature that allowed you to PM people while invisible?
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May I request bringing back the feature that allowed you to PM people while invisible?
Supported, +1
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May I request bringing back the feature that allowed you to PM people while invisible?
Supported, +1
What? Why?
I thought it was kind of annoying that an Invisible player could PM you, and then you had -NO- way of clicking on their name to respond back to them. That just seems like an irritating feature to be honest. :(
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May I request bringing back the feature that allowed you to PM people while invisible?
Supported, +1
What? Why?
I thought it was kind of annoying that an Invisible player could PM you, and then you had -NO- way of clicking on their name to respond back to them. That just seems like an irritating feature to be honest. :(
I'd like a feature that makes us able to send PMs to invisible people, by typing in their username in an empty space. It would of course fail if said person was offline, and not invisible.
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You can now use /card or /card X (where X is a number between 1 and 7) to draw cards.
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+rep for all the work put in the latest changes. :)
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Added a few tools at the top of chat now. This let's you hide media (images, paintings, videos, cards, decks), left/joined messages, and AveragePotato messages on and off. Unfortunately with how Blab works, new stuff will still show, but I can fix this at some point.
This is now fixed. Once you click hide Media (or L/J, PM, Potato, or All), all future media (or whatever you clicked) should be hidden, as well.
I also made multiple improvements to chat history, including a bigger panel, wider selection of time periods, and a Go To Page option. Enjoy!
EDIT 1:
Oh, and I also created /money recently. You can do "/money" or "/money balance" to see your balance, "/money set X" to set you balance to any integer, "/money add X" and "/money sub X" to add or subtract, respectively, to your balance. (Note that this is not real money, nor does it have any real significance. I made it mostly for playing chat blackjack!) :)
EDIT 2:
In case you want a shorter and easier to implement feature, antiaverage, then I suggest a Magic Eight Ball feature. :)
It would work like /eightball! "Insert question here", and then it would reply with Yes/No/Other options except maybe.
Added! Just do "/eightball <question>". This will be hidden with Hide Media.
EDIT 3:
Also, could Panels please have the same pallet design as the Color button on the bottom?
This is done.
Also, this is a pretty epic 1600th post, if I may say so myself. :P
EDIT 4:
Toggle Media,L/J,PM,Potato,All are now green links that turn red when toggled off.
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Added a few tools at the top of chat now. This let's you hide media (images, paintings, videos, cards, decks), left/joined messages, and AveragePotato messages on and off. Unfortunately with how Blab works, new stuff will still show, but I can fix this at some point.
This is now fixed. Once you click hide Media (or L/J, PM, Potato, or All), all future media (or whatever you clicked) should be hidden, as well.
I don't suppose you'd be able to add a little green light, or boldness, or a font colour, that indicated whether these options are activated or deactivated? I don't want to go missing any PMs
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I don't suppose you'd be able to add a little green light, or boldness, or a font colour, that indicated whether these options are activated or deactivated? I don't want to go missing any PMs
Done! The links are now green when on, clicking them turns them red (for toggled off), clicking again turns them green, and so on.
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Love the new changes to chat history. Maybe a keyword/phrases finder too? Ex: "bye CR" [1] [day]
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The fact that you fixed Chat History to be all that more useful UTAlan is a godsend. Thank you and anti and Higurashi and so many others who have made Blab into what it is now. Seriously. :-*
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Would like an option to Toggle Math - takes up a lot of vertical space with heavy usage. Doesn't need to be removed, just reverted to simple text form if possible.
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I can't believe I am saying that, but please bring AveragePotato back. It is been missing in the tournament chat for quite long.
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I can't believe I am saying that, but please bring AveragePotato back. It is been missing in the tournament chat for quite long.
Seconded. It'd be nice to see when matches finish for bracket purposes.
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Would like an option to Toggle Math - takes up a lot of vertical space with heavy usage. Doesn't need to be removed, just reverted to simple text form if possible.
This is done. Removing it was easier than reverting to text form. I'll see if I can get that working later.
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I don't suppose you'd be able to add a little green light, or boldness, or a font colour, that indicated whether these options are activated or deactivated? I don't want to go missing any PMs
Done! The links are now green when on, clicking them turns them red (for toggled off), clicking again turns them green, and so on.
These values are now saved and tied to your account, so when you revisit chat, it will remember your Toggle Settings.
EDIT: Also, Math now goes to plain text when toggled rather than hiding completely.
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Thank you UTA! +Rep for you! :-*
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Backslash no longer needs to be escaped with another backslash. \o/ Note that [deck\][/deck] still works (escaping the tag to show how to use it).
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Backslash no longer needs to be escaped with another backslash. \o/ Note that \[deck\]\[/deck\] still works (escaping the tag to show how to use it).
I'm just curious, what made it need to be escaped, but things like \n and the like didn't?
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I'm just curious, what made it need to be escaped, but things like \n and the like didn't?
http://php.net/stripslashes is used in the code.
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Private Potato and Join/Leave messages now use the timestamp format you have setup in Panels.
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Private chat is bugged - new messages simply don't seem to show up.
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Any updates from AA about TourneyPotato?
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Whenever I try to go to the chat I'm being redirected to http://elementscommunity.org/chat/info.php?wttp=nopr (http://elementscommunity.org/chat/info.php?wttp=nopr),
which looks like this:
(http://i.imgur.com/U6InGbQ.png).
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^ I'll be at the discord/irc if you want to chat/rant
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You can go to chat as guests.
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Should be fixed.
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"[2016-02-11 17:36:05] Jenkar: @UTAlan : two things that may be worth considering if you have some time : on safari, there's two bugs with blab : i can't tab to complete names, and i sometime send messages that are never gotten by the server. Not an internet problem"
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i sometime send messages that are never gotten by the server. Not an internet problem"
That happens to all of us sometimes.
I also noticed that the ASCII symbols used for the /quit function are broken.
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- Fixed gallery avatars not displaying in blab profiles
- Fixed forum links in blab profiles
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What's the max size for a blab painting? How long is the maximum time one can spend on a painting?
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Sugestion:
Make Potato not care for posts older than a week (I'm looking at you PP)
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Suggestion:
TourneyPotato; An AveragePotato that resides in the Tourney Room, and only notifies about posts made in the PvP Tournaments section, so that us TO's don't have to have two chat tabs open (or refresh unread posts every 30 seconds) to update the challonge.
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Suggestion:
TourneyPotato; An AveragePotato that resides in the Tourney Room, and only notifies about posts made in the PvP Tournaments section, so that us TO's don't have to have two chat tabs open (or refresh unread posts every 30 seconds) to update the challonge.
Done.
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Thank you, UTA! :)
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The l/j timestamps appear to be exactly one minute behind the message timestamps
EDIT: That might be my end. I'm actually not sure
EDIT: The l/j timestamps match my computer time but I think my computer time is a minute behind. My end, or coincidence?
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Masters can now go invisible.
Invisible users can now PM other users. Also, users receiving PMs (from invisible & visible users) can now open the PM window by clicking on the username in the PM itself.
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Masters can now go invisible.
Invisible users can now PM other users. Also, users receiving PMs (from invisible & visible users) can now open the PM window by clicking on the username in the PM itself.
Thank you again UTA...
...and now ghosting resumes as normal. >:)
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I don't seem to receive PMs unless I am currently looking at Blab's tab.
To test this, I opened Blab in two windows:
- on Chrome, logged in as CleanOnion
- on Edge, logged in as Denvis
I sent a few messages back and forth between the two accounts.
(http://i.imgur.com/CTqjgzR.png)
Left: Denvis on Edge; Right: CleanOnion on Chrome
Before any PMs were sent, both instances of Blab were working normally.
When I sent message from Chrome to Edge, the messages appeared normally despite that window not being focused. I did not enable notifications but I can assume that they would work normally too.
When I sent messages from Edge to Chrome, they did not appear on screen. Furthermore, for as long as Chrome was not the active window, Blab did not update further and no other chat messages were received. This erroneous behaviour continued until I made Chrome my active window, at which point the missing messages appeared simultaneously (with correct timestamps).
This is problematic because it means I can no longer receive notifications for PMs received while away.
The debugging console told me, each time a message failed to appear:
(http://i.imgur.com/lmnT1nd.png)
This line in blab.js is
(http://i.imgur.com/XaBYYKr.png)
The error is being caused by "/blab_from">(.*?)</.exec(split[i])" being null. While I attempted to tinker around a little bit to fix it, I was unsuccessful.
I don't know if that is what is causing the error.
Conclusion: bug on Chrome (my Chrome, at least) means I cannot receive PMs while AFK, and if someone attempts to PM me I don't receive any other messages either.
This one's a bit of a bummer
Additionally, I discovered that the common error in which Blab stops sending or receiving any messages and the only solution is to refresh is caused by this error:
(http://i.imgur.com/r3PtMrh.png)
caused by
(http://i.imgur.com/hPp5fSX.png)
I don't know how to fix that. Although it happened on Edge after a few minutes, it hasn't happened to me on Chrome for a long time.
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I've been having something like that too. Chat seemed silent and all of the sudden a swarm of messages were appearing. Pretty annoying.
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(http://i.imgur.com/j0XvQVF.png)
The issue is widespread
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Also getting the pm-issue on Firefox, some people -myself included- are now also missing the "away", "pictures" and "ignore" buttons.
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I've been having something like that too. Chat seemed silent and all of the sudden a swarm of messages were appearing. Pretty annoying.
I am also now experiencing this almost non-stop. It used to be (months and months) intermittently occurring but now basically every time I use chat and tab-away then tab-back a flood of activity appears.
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experiencing the pm issue from time to time. Rest seems fine though.
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Thanks for the reports. Looking into this now.
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Chat/PM issue is now fixed! Huge thanks to CleanOnion, as this post:
The debugging console told me, each time a message failed to appear:
(http://i.imgur.com/lmnT1nd.png)
This line in blab.js is
(http://i.imgur.com/XaBYYKr.png)
The error is being caused by "/blab_from">(.*?)</.exec(split[i])" being null. While I attempted to tinker around a little bit to fix it, I was unsuccessful.
is ultimately what helped me find and fix the issue. Apologies that it happened at all (was caused by my most recent updates), but it should be good now :)
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(https://gyazo.com/8c13dffc0f30494c7b68099ebc1e9e0c.png)
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(https://gyazo.com/8c13dffc0f30494c7b68099ebc1e9e0c.png)
Forgot to post here. This has been fixed.
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Suggestion: Can the super secret TO announce feature (bigtext, used for announcing brackets/special announcements in tourneys) be made to ping/highlight everyone in the room? Sometimes people miss the "We're making brackets, is there anyone not participating?" announcement, when they're not participating, and it ends up disrupting the tournament. Thanks! :)
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Noting for myself: Challonge/Blab integration.
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Noting for myself: Challonge/Blab integration.
Integrate google sheets pls <3
#addict
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Noting for myself: Challonge/Blab integration.
Integrate google sheets pls <3
#addict
+1
(I really just want others that are capable and willing to be able to do this so I can consume the fruits of such labor.)
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We want twitch chat emotes!
Or just the Kappa one, at the very least.
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We want twitch chat emotes!
Or just the Kappa one, at the very least.
Kappa?
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(http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/925/494/218.png_large)
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Kappa: https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/25/1.0
SMOrc: https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/52/1.0
PogChamp: https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/88/1.0
4Head: https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/354/1.0
BibleThump: https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/86/1.0
We need these emotes. UTA, pls
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Kappa: https://twitchemotes.com/emote/_Kappa_
SMOrc: https://twitchemotes.com/emote/_SMOrc_
PogChamp: https://twitchemotes.com/emote/_PogChamp_
4Head: https://twitchemotes.com/emote/_4Head_
We need these emotes. UTA, pls
No BibleThump BibleThump
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You know you can just use [img][/img]?
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You know you can just use [img][/img]?
I agree honestly, if you really want to use them just use this imo
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Reveal subforums of posts with ap? I really don't want to get baited into a religion thread again, it annoys the shit out of me.
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After recent chat discussion: it would be nice if there was a way of dealing with leave/join spams without banning said member. They usually do not do this by choice, and whack-a-moling guests this way is the easiest way to scare them off (I think).
Several options were discussed, here's some that appeal to me:
- Auto-ignore leave/joins from members that join/leave within say... 5 minutes of one another. No one cares to know if someone leave/joins that often regardless of the cause, hmm?
- Allow mods to mute someone's leave/join messages. This requires effort from mods, but is better than banning them, at least.
- Set l/j off by default, set it off for mobile. This does not fix anything for those actually wanting to see l/j I suppose.
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Not sure why it hasn't been mentioned before, but please ban guesticles to make paintings. I think it makes sense to limit it as a member-only feature.
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Not sure why it hasn't been mentioned before, but please ban guesticles to make paintings. I think it makes sense to limit it as a member-only feature.
Done.
Added functionality to the /card command. You can now draw Elements cards in various ways. Details here:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/blab-commands-and-features/msg1122406/#post_cards
I will be adding a way to use the Elements names instead of just numbers, and an option for only drawing unique cards (no repeats).
The playing cards were always able to draw repeats, so I allowed the same for the Elements cards. Let me know if it's important to you to draw unique cards for either of standard playing cards or Elements cards.
Also let me know if you have a suggestion for a different command syntax.
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Reveal subforums of posts with ap? I really don't want to get baited into a religion thread again, it annoys the shit out of me.
Done. AveragePotato now states the subforum just like PrivatePotato.
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User groups are a bit more synchronized with Blab.
Users without a primary user group now use their post group.
Forum members no longer show their user group as Member, instead showing the primary user group or post group.
Guests are now in a Guest group which has its own separate permissions.
Anyone with the Chat Moderator group, whether set as a primary or additional user group, will be able to moderate chat and go invisible.
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All forum groups are now matched with a corresponding Blab group.
Blab group names now match the color of the forum group names.
Chat Moderators can now join the Chat Moderator room again.
You can now post a deck code without the deck tag and it will still generate an image, but only for decks with 30 cards minimum. This is mostly intended for confused guests.
Added greentext.
Fixed apostrophes in links.
Links now use the anchor tag and target is _blank to use a new window/tab. This allows browser extensions like Imagus to perform their function in chat.
Currently working on fixing up media toggles to show links for videos, etc.
Currently working on alt/option click to convert to a link and back.
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Added ways to get boilerplate help from AveragePotato http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-chat/blab-commands-and-features/#post_help
You can no longer ping yourself.
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Added the first version of an implementation of the skyroll™ game to /roll
Future implementations will improve on the aesthetics and add features, but will not reset the roll records.
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Fixed the italics issue for mentions where the right guillemet was missing
Fixed links without a protocol acting as relative links
Starting a line with / will prevent links from being parsed
Images can now be embedded with /img
Images that are embedded without a url will instead use the input as a search with Google Images, returning the first result
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added /gif and [gif]
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added /card
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changed the old /card to /draw
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Added /rollinfo
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Is it possible to get a "last seen" or "first seen" feature, where AP shows the very first or last blab message someone sent?
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Is it possible to get a "last seen" or "first seen" feature, where AP shows the very first or last blab message someone sent?
It's possible to give the first and last message someone sent to chat, but not the last time they were logged in to chat as we don't record that. While we could add logs for someone logging in and out, based on the way Blab does persistence, it would flood the database unnecessarily for some users.
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Added /first and /last so you can lookup the first and last message of a user
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Added:
/pingjoin
/pingsay
/pj
/ps
These will notify you when a specified user joins or next says/does something. Going from away or invisible to online or visible counts as joining.
You can repeat the command multiple times with different users to build a list.
Sending the command without specifying a user will clear the list.
The settings will persist across room changes, but not across reloads.
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added /pinglist and /pl so you can list your current pings
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The /first and /last commands now use the user id, so name changes and underscores won't affect the search. The search is and has always been case insensitive as well.
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Added /issue command to share the Bitbucket issue tracker for the community software
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All future issues and feature requests should be posted to:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-bugs-suggestions-and-feedback/elements-community-site-issue-tracker/
You can get the link to the tracker by using the command /issue in Blab
We will still post here when changes are made to chat in order to keep a running log for those who don't follow the issue tracker.
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Jan 18: (these changes by UTAlan)
* added /xkcd
* fixed chat toggles when no user found
* added number formatting to /rollinfo
* privatepotato is lazier if you don't have private board access
Jan 23:
* updated /first and /last to find and use user ID
* fixed chat color errors for new users
* removed IRC from the forum Chat dropdown
* added the /issue command
Jan 27:
* added a local computer time synchronizer to the roll timer
* added PrivatePotato messages for the roll timer
Jan 31:
* add live timer to roll timer icon, toggle visibility on click
Feb 2:
* add button for user tag in forum post editor
Feb 4:
* add /r as shortcut for /roll, add /rr as a way to roll without logging to skyroll
* add /ri as shortcut for /rollinfo
* completely overhaul rollinfo to give more info and use proper grammar and tense depending on whether the set was completed
* add a way to check dice count to rollinfo (e.g. /ri 1d)
* fix /pingjoin and /pingsay to work with dashed names
Feb 5:
* use dice icon to not only toggle visibility of timer, but also PrivatePotato messages
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So the past couple days my mobile chat has been acting up, as I talked with UTA earlier today about it, it doesn't scroll unless I start typing, and when I'm not typing it rubber bands ad I have to scroll manually. Anyone else?
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So the past couple days my mobile chat has been acting up, as I talked with UTA earlier today about it, it doesn't scroll unless I start typing, and when I'm not typing it rubber bands ad I have to scroll manually. Anyone else?
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-bugs-suggestions-and-feedback/elements-community-site-issue-tracker/
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Uh, the chat just straight up isn't working for me right now. I am using a wiiu tablet, and it normally works, but almost nothing is loading when i enter the chat. Was there a change made in the last several hours?
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Uh, the chat just straight up isn't working for me right now. I am using a wiiu tablet, and it normally works, but almost nothing is loading when i enter the chat. Was there a change made in the last several hours?
Yes, try a hard refresh or clearing your cache
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Its still not working, but in a different way. I tried both deleting cookies and reseting save data.
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So the past couple days my mobile chat has been acting up, as I talked with UTA earlier today about it, it doesn't scroll unless I start typing, and when I'm not typing it rubber bands ad I have to scroll manually. Anyone else?
My chat is blocked by chat emoji. Cant see anything
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Its still not working, but in a different way. I tried both deleting cookies and reseting save data.
My chat is blocked by chat emoji. Cant see anything
Still an issue? Can you post screenshots? Have you hard-refreshed?
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Mine's on phone
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Did you try pushing the X?
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Did you try pushing the X?
I'm not that stupid XD Yh, i did try that but didn't work.
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Did you try pushing the X?
I'm not that stupid XD Yh, i did try that but didn't work.
Can confirm. I've had the same problem since yesterday, just haven't been able to post
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Can't reproduce yet, do try clearing your cache
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Mobile chat works fine on Galaxy S6. Perhaps try telling us your OS versions and devices?
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Can't reproduce yet, do try clearing your cache
Uhh, how to on phone?
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Can't reproduce yet, do try clearing your cache
Uhh, how to on phone?
Which phone browser?
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Can't reproduce yet, do try clearing your cache
Uhh, how to on phone?
Which phone browser?
Safari
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Can't reproduce yet, do try clearing your cache
Uhh, how to on phone?
Which phone browser?
Safari
http://refreshyourcache.com/en/safari-mobile/
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Chat doesn't seem to work at all on Firefox
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Chat doesn't seem to work at all on Firefox
I use firefox (for like a year now...)
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Hmm yeah, apparently my firefox wasn't updated, works now. Looked like the same problem as you had on safari though, with the emoji thing being up and rest of chat being empty.
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For a few days I've been getting this. Clearing cache did not do anything. Tried both Firefox and Opera on PC.
(http://up.picr.de/28374909pz.jpg)
The only working buttons are "Rules" and "Logout", which link to the forum. All the other buttons aren't working.
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Yeah that what I got on Firefox, but it went away when I updated Firefox.
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For people still experiencing this issue, can you please post all details about your system? What operating system are you running, which version, which browser are you using, which version. I can't reproduce this, and without being able to reproduce I can't fix it. I am using Firefox 51.0.1 and Chrome 56.0.2924.87 on MacOS 10.12.3 as well as Chrome 56.0.2924.87 on Android 7.1.1 and all is working for me.
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Firefox 43.0.1, on Windows 7. I never had any local issues with anything related to Elements because of my browser.
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Firefox 43.0.1, on Windows 7. I never had any local issues with anything related to Elements because of my browser.
You have an issue right now that I'm trying to help you with.
As stated here:
https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-and-Update/Install-an-older-version-of-Firefox/ta-p/1564#firefox:win7:fx51
Warning: Using old versions of Firefox poses a significant security risk.
You are currently far out of date. The latest version of Firefox for Windows 7 is 51.0.1 which you can download here:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
I will still download Firefox 43.0.1 (https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/43.0.1/) and see if I can reproduce, but I strongly recommend you upgrade Firefox on your system.
Edit:
I have been able to reproduce the issue on Firefox 43.0.1 and will look in to it. If you are having the issue, please upgrade your browser.
Edit 2:
The issue is being caused by:
let classes = new Array();
This is part of the show/hide mod UTAlan recently implemented. The problem is that let is part of a newer version of JavaScript which older versions of browsers do not support.
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We are currently discussing if we should refactor the code to support older browsers or whether we should force browser upgrades.
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Thanks for the testing and heads up.
Please keep in mind that forcing people to certain actions they are usually responsible only for themselves is often seen quite badly. I have my reasons for not updating my browser, and will have to consider if the chat is worth throwing away those reasons.
After all, it is your server, so your decission counts. Do what you think is best, that has brought this site pretty far.
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My personal preference right now is to refactor chat to work for older browsers for this specific issue.
However, all discussion for this will be here: https://bitbucket.org/elementscommunity/elements_community/issues/73/fix-hide-show-command-to-work-for-older
All future issues and feature requests should be reported to our issue tracker in the future as stated here: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-bugs-suggestions-and-feedback/elements-community-site-issue-tracker/
Thank you for your patience :)
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I have my reasons for not updating my browser
Please review this list:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/
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This issue is now resolved, please hard-refresh or clear your cache to get the latest JavaScript file.
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Forgot to post here last night. Note that chat works fine on my windows, it's just my phone (safari [version unknown], iPod Gen 4)
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Forgot to post here last night. Note that chat works fine on my windows, it's just my phone (safari [version unknown], iPod Gen 4)
on your iPod, open Settings, scroll down to Safari and tap, then scroll down to Clear Cache and tap
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if you wanna have fun, get in chat now
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Kuro, get in chat!
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All the kuros are on
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Chat and forum are both extremely slow and lagging so much that's its impossible to use them...
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Chat and forum are both extremely slow and lagging so much that's its impossible to use them...
Yeah, our host moved us to a different server without telling me. The database is going through a long re-optimizing, and it totally sucks. Hopefully things will get better as the scripts clean things up.
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I just realised that the Elements logo in the top-right is a link to /forum/unread.
I could have saved minutes if I'd known this before.
Minutes.
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Blab pings don't show for me
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letter + tab doesnt work anymore
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letter + tab doesnt work anymore
It's on my todo list now the forums are migrated:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-news-and-announcements/server-migration