Taming the Wild Blab (Chat Software Change Log)

[antiaverage]

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.

[TribalTrouble]

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!

[ddevans96]

Don't feel like making a new thread, so I'll just drop this here.

Spoiler for aa messing with things:

[ZephyrPhantom]

Don't feel like making a new thread, so I'll just drop this here.

Spoiler for aa messing with things:

Looks like irc and blab are slowly merging together...

Got a command list for future reference?

[antiaverage]

There is now a lovely /me command, much better than the test versions posted early by ddevans96

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:

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/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:

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/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:

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/p8

[ColorlessGreen]

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.

[antiaverage]

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.

[ColorlessGreen]

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.

[Captain Scibra]

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.

[Chapuz]

I propose having a ping command. EtG chat needs /ping Higurashi

[antiaverage]

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

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hello pthen press TAB, the message will become

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hello papayaif you press TAB again, the message will become

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hello pineappleand again...

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hello pomegranatebut then if you press shift+tab, the message will now become

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hello pineappleetc.

in addition, if your username appears in a public message, the line will be highlighted

[antiaverage]

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

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pthen press TAB, the message will become

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<@papaya>if you press TAB again, the message will become

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<@pineapple>if you type

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<@pineapple> pthen press TAB, the message will become

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<@pineapple> <@papaya>if you type

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<@pineapple> <@papaya> where is pthen press shift+TAB, the message will become

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<@pineapple> <@papaya> where is pomegranate