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Hidden 9 yrs ago Post by LegendBegins
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I hope you understand that that's not really a use-case I will go out of my way to support. My proposed improvement to the invisibility system above would eliminate this use-case. :(

The purpose of invisibility-mode is to give people privacy over the exact moment they're online. That invisibility happens to hide *all* activity information was the product of a quick implementation until I could think of a better approach.

If you may be lurking on other accounts, it seems better to reassure people via status and signature. Or even user title: "Not my main account".


It wouldn't be that big of a deal if it was implemented, personally; you may get complaints from people that never want to be seen.
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@Mahz To be fair, I'm sure a lot of people want it to be that way, and will be unhappy if suddenly they aren't quite as invisible as they were before.

I'd love to hear from someone that desires this behavior since it surprises me.

But being able to act like you're never online is not a very reasonable feature on an online forum community, at a glance. I can't even fathom the use-case. The guild is about collaborating with other people.
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I'd love to hear from someone that desires this behavior since it surprises me.

But being able to act like you're never online is not a very reasonable feature on an online forum community, at a glance. I can't even fathom the use-case. The guild is about collaborating with other people.


I suppose you could call them, er, shy?
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You're shy? Now where'd we put that death ray...

On a more serious note... Shyness is one thing RPing can to a certain degree cure. People should not be afraid to show themselves, even if it is just on an online community.
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You're shy? Now where'd we put that death ray...

On a more serious note... Shyness is one thing RPing can to a certain degree cure. People should not be afraid to show themselves, even if it is just on an online community.


Me? Heh, no. But since @Mahz doesn't like the feature to be on permanently, I've turned it off.
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The chat I'm working on now saves the chat log to the database:

- Chat: roleplayerguild.com/chat
- Logs: roleplayerguild.com/chatlog...
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Gah, my reputation as a ghost-ninja, capable of popping up randomly anywhere without warning shall be ruined

xPP

On a more serious note, just want to say that I do stalk this thread every now and then (>.>), and am really happy to see so many of the ideas that have been discussed being enacted. The guild is really taking shape and feels a lot more like 'home' (if that makes sense ^^') thank you for all your amazing work c:

*Sneaks off again with the soon-to-be-forever-gone ghost-ninja powers*

P.S I was actually surprised that no one requested some kind of ordering of the subscriptions. There are a few I joined ages ago and which are no longer alive that I'd just love to archive or something so that my subscriptions are not so cluttered, but so that I can easily access those dead RPs if the needs arises. Is that something on the list? Would be nice to see in the future :)
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Hidden 9 yrs ago Post by LegendBegins
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I like the new icons at the top, but why was the Chat link removed?
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I'm loving the new changes and features.
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Its not gone, @LegendBegins. Its relocated to the top of the sidebar.
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Its not gone, @LegendBegins. Its relocated to the top of the sidebar.


Ah, thank you. I tend to stay on the subscription screen, so I didn't notice.
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@LegendBegins I'm much the same as you. I use the subscription page first and look through that before venturing around the rest of the site.
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Man, I can't wait to see the chat system fully implemented, I do a lot of 1x1 RPs and after a while the numerous PMs that are just used for communication get pretty ridiculous at times. Being able to comfortably chat with my partner would be great, and maybe the ability to save the conversation in someway, though that might be me dreaming too much.

Anyway Mahz thanks a bunch for starting to work on this, I been waiting for something like it for sure.
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To be honest, we thought it missing at first too, @LegendBegins. Then suddenly we spotted it. Not that we use it. We don't like mibbit. We prefer proper IRC clients.
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Something I noticed about the Chatbox to look into. Whenever someone types a long message the new line reverts back to the left past the time stamp. Probably look nicer and a bit easier to read if it was indented for additional lines of text.

eg:
20:11 Name: qwertyuiop asdfghjkl
zxcvbnm
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20:11 Name: qwertyuiop asdfghjkl
zxcvbnm
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Something I noticed about the Chatbox to look into. Whenever someone types a long message the new line reverts back to the left past the time stamp. Probably look nicer and a bit easier to read if it was indented for additional lines of text.

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It takes up slightly more space, which is the only downside, but I'm impartial to whatever you all believe looks the best. I have no sense of aesthetics.
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The amount of extra space it takes up isn't really much, but formatting it like that makes longer messages easier to me, for sure.
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not a bad idea. There's space enough in the chat.
One could even consider having the : after each name line up vertically, but that might require a slight sideways extension of the chat window or lines can get very short.

We have another suggestion, @Mahz...

Right now, the chat lists who are online and who are muted. How about dividing it a little more?
Who are online.
Who are lurking (not actively using the chat for 10 minutes).
Who have been muted.

In addition, some functionality that would make the chat more practical. We know several of these are probably on your list, but it doesn't hurt to make sure.
  • automated Join/quit messages
  • /me function
  • A letter + tab key - scrolls through online names starting with that letter
  • Ability to ping and be pinged through name mentions while not focused on the chat tab
  • link to the master log file
  • ability to control width of the chat window


We could probably think of more, but these are a start.

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It takes up slightly more space, which is the only downside, but I'm impartial to whatever you all believe looks the best. I have no sense of aesthetics.


Shouldn't take up any space really. You're only shifting words over by a few characters and it's only going to be on an occasional basis.

I also noted that if you scroll up through the chat, it retains it's position while the chat scrolls on. (Can't remember if it stays there even if you post a message)
Could we make it so when you post it'll jump down to your latest message? I don't believe it should scroll down for every message that appears as it makes it a nightmare to read previous lines.
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