November 12, 2004 5:27 PM GMT
welcome to the apple community
can see the health level going up in the chat room.. apple a day etc..
own icons: the chat software has a limit of 40ish max icons which rules out individual icons, also i can only guess at the bandwidth they used. however it is possible to change the standard ones.. i reckon having a few for things like 'BRB', 'AFK' etc would be useful, so if anyone fancies drawing a few... who knows from the manual changing them ain't to hard.. on a similar note smilies can be added
profiles.. um there is a problem here tis true.. for now a work around is the 'whos here page' from the main site.
navigating to another page leaves the chat room... this is the same as the old chat room?? think of the chat window as embedded in the login window but one that takes less room and you'll be fine.
sound and picture settings appear to have saved for me, though video not working here just yet.
perosnal chat rooms? not actually tried that, i think they are password protected by default with the creator setting up the password. exactly how this works in practice i'm not sure of, but worth posting if anyone finds out.
and i agree that its better... and as soon as i've got mozilla sorted on my linux box i'll be using that.
way happy here
November 13, 2004 2:41 PM GMT
Hi girls,
I know it's not the same as the previous chat program but this new chat software really is a huge leap for us. We now have the fastest, most reliable, most feature rich (and most expensive) chat software there is.
However, it's going to take a little time to get it integrated with the rest of the site so please bear with us. If I had the money I could have a team of programmers do it all tomorrow, but I don't so we'll just have to save up and do it a bit at a time.
The personal icons used by the old room were part of the problem as they all had to be reloaded at every refresh making it one of the slowest rooms around. There were also many other stability problems with the old room which slow down the whole site and caused the server to crash completely on a regular basis. It just had to go.
I'm looking at replacing the user-icons in the new room with something more femme.
We'll also have a page showing which smilies are available soon (they're all up and working now but the listing page isn't).
The software is set to try to keep the chat window open when a user moves to a different page. This doesn't work on every system though, and depends on your own setup. As Alex pointed out, the easy way round this is to have a second (or third) browser window open.
The profiles button did work when Eric initially integrated the new software into the site. However, somewhere along the line I appear to have broken it. I don't know why and am waiting for a chap from Digichat to fix it. As soon as it's mended, highlighting a user's name and clicking the "I" button will bring up their profile (and picture) in a new browser window.
When you create a personal chat room you are given the option of entering a password. I've you leave the password field blank, other users will be able to go straight in. If you enter a password, your visitors will need to know what it is in order to gain access.
Finally, welcome Mac users and also Linux and Unix people. Netscape and Opera users should have no problems now.
Hope this helps.
Hugs,
Katie x