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Message title: New chat features (old news :) )
Author: Digit
Posting date: 2001.06.03 - 03:07am

Hello all,

This is old news since these changes went in last week, but the post I had made here originally got eaten when this message board went bezerk. So, here's the last round of features/bugs added to SwallowSoft chat:

- Added an email field in the profile editor screen, this is intended to be used for password recovery when you forget what your password is; the email address will be kept private, and will only be used by me to send you a new password (form to automate this coming someday :) ) I may have introduced a bug with the profiles when I did this, if you see any problems do let me know.

- Finally got the JavaScript trick to work (thanks Yum!) that will correct the "focus" problem with the text input box in the bottom frame of the chat. Your web browser has to implement JavaScript for this to work, sorry.

- Updating your character profile is now done in about two seconds instead of twenty :) Bad code on my part, never expected to have so many entries in the character database (more than 250 now, woo!) I still need to make that form come back to the character entry form instead of the stupid "Update successful!" screen though *mental note* ...

- A bug where vore4k's posts would insert bogus whispers into the lurker's text view was fixed.

- Lots of little internal code tweaking to make things go faster...

- Statistics on the traffic in the chat for the last fourteen days are being kept, and presented in several graphs here: https://voraphile.com/chat/chat_showstats.cgi I hacked this into the chat to answer the question that always comes up with newbies, "When are people in this chat room " Look at the fourteen day average, some real trends are starting to show up (it's still collecting a full fourteen days worth of traffic data, I think it's up to eight or nine days now -- so the averages are off a little.)

- A "Silent Login" button was added; if you login with this button instead of the "Login!" one, your login/logout blurbs will be suppressed (useful for when you want to just lurk, or you got booted and want to come back in without interrupting the chat.)

- Italic, Bold and Underline tags are now allowed.

- Userlist frame (right side of the chat) was modified to allow scrolling, since some browsers can't fit the whole list into a non-scrolling frame (very low resolution displays, like 640x480, have this problem.)

- Help file revised to be clearer, added documentation for new features.

I think that was everything... As always, let me know if you have any bugs to report or features you'd like to see :)

-Digit


      


Other messages in this thread:


   New chat features (old news :) ) by Digit on 2001.06.03 - 03:07am

      Re: New chat features (more :) ) by Digit on 2001.06.03 - 06:57am
         Re: Busy busy... by Digit on 2001.06.03 - 07:51am
            Re: IMPORTANT chat change by Digit on 2001.06.03 - 2:05pm
      New chat features to come... by Digit on 2001.06.03 - 03:27am


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