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Official Discussion Thread About Chats Feature

By Webmaster

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Replies: 185 / 10 years ago

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New Chat Features

(http://rp.eliteskills.com/r.php?r=55685 See new features here).

Why Chats?

There has been 5.5 million messages made on ES threads, and over 1 million PMs, (b all of which get stored in the database forever and ever and ever) unless you delete them. ES is setup in a way to be as interactive as possible, but as a consequence many people have used it to chat instead of roleplay. Forums store every single message made and are not designed to be used like chats, it takes too much disk space storing all those messages. These realtime chats let you OOC and Chat without refreshing the page constantly for updates. Only the last 18 messages are stored for each chat.

It keeps getting disconnected

You cannot join more than 1 chat at once. This is to prevent people having like 50 windows open and eating bandwidth. Some kind of multiple room search and join might come in the future at some point.

I'm on my cell/school/work computer and I can't use the flash chat

Get back to work.

Will there be a way to lurk anonymously

Probably in the near future to very soon.

Will we be able to moderate chats we own

Probably soonish, as well as limiting who joins protected chats.

Chat Commands

The commands are a lie.

Chat formatting that works

Chat supports limited ES formatting and only those commands which use parenthesis.

Command	Action
u	underlined
blue	blue
r	red
green	green
y	yellow
size10	Font size 10
http*	link
g	Google link
w	wikipedia link
imdb	imdb
#rrggbb	Any color

Pending

1. Honoring protected chats.
2. Count how many users online at once.
3. System messages to all users.
4. Message of the day.
5. More commands with spiffy features.
6. Counting all posts made.
7. Multiple chats at same time in same window
8. Realtime updates for posts and PMs (harder for posts).
9. Thread owner can kick
10. Ignore feature
11. Option for sound
12. option for sound when someone says your name or certain phrase