Taming the Wild Blab (Chat Software Change Log)

[CrockettRocket]

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.

[Naesala]

Black rather than white does save battery power and reduce eyestrain.

[CrockettRocket]

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.

[frimax]

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.

[antiaverage]

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, 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...

[antiaverage]

• 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

[rob77dp]

• 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

[Basman-1453]

• 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. :/

[antiaverage]

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)

[UTAlan]

• 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"?

[antiaverage]

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.

[Ginyu]

That would be extremely awesome.

You could also use this as notification, e.g. if AP posts something in a specific topic.