Jeff Wexler Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 I have added Chat feature to JWSOUND Here are some general tips on its use (looking at Chat Bar): 1. on off switch to the right side will Hide Chat (so you don't have to look at it at all) 2. Chat Rooms are Group Chats --- everyone online can participate in any of the Rooms available and each member can start their own Room. You can leave the Room by clicking on the open door icon. You have to LEAVE the main chat room (JWSOUNDGROUP Meeting Room) before you can start your own Chat Room. 3. Chat (nn) is the general chat --- clicking on a member starts a chat with that member General Note: Clicking on any of the headers in the bar will bring up the feature and at the top of the header once launched, there is a GEAR icon for settings (this is where you can turn on or off the annoying "pop" sound for chat activity). Clicking on the header bar again will collapse that feature. One function that often goes unnoticed is the function of having a chat in its own window --- this is referred to as "Pop Out the Chat". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 Great! Well done Jeff! This chat is from Facebook? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 It's kind of the same as FB but different. Hopefully there will be no group singing of Kum Baya feature. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted November 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 Great! Well done Jeff! This chat is from Facebook? Not from Facebook but Facebook uses similar software/programming and the current user interface is modeled after Facebook "look and feel". It is stand alone software package from Arrow company (it's called arrowchat) that I installed and configured and integrated into the IPB software that this forum is built on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 Yeah! It freaked me out a bit at first, as I hadn't read this post yet, and all of a sudden I hear the "doink" sound and a chat window opened! I was a bit startled, but figured out what was going on pretty quickly. Nicely done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gilbert Posted November 6, 2012 Report Share Posted November 6, 2012 Unmoderated chat, things may get messy once people hit the booze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted November 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2012 Yes, unmoderated but only open to registered members who are online. The main Forum is unmoderated also, always has been, but things happen a little more slowly when making a post on the Discussion Group. Chat can get out of hand and it is not something that can be moderated, real time, which is the only sort of moderation that would be effective. It is what it is, if it gets out of hand at least it isn't polluting the whole site. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gilbert Posted November 6, 2012 Report Share Posted November 6, 2012 Don't drink and post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted November 6, 2012 Report Share Posted November 6, 2012 Suggestion: Ban political discussions on chat. There seem to be a few misguided egomaniacs who think their opinion is the only one that matters and therefore it's okay to call anyone with a dissenting view nasty names. A few such exceptions aside, we're mostly a good group -- if the rules are clearly understood we should be able to self-police. If anyone abuses it, can you lock them out of chat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomboom Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 ... like in family parties: avoid politics, religion and sex and everything'll be all right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 ... like in family parties: avoid politics, religion and sex and everything'll be all right What, no sex in the Chat Room?! I suppose next you'll be telling me there's no chatting in the Sex Room! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris McCallum Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Love the chat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Waldron Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Your website now takes 5-10 times longer to load each page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Yes Jeff. This is true. It's very slow to open pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted November 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 There were server problems yesterday, I don't think it is the addition of the Chat feature. It is true that there is a lot of additional data that is loaded --- mainly the list of users available to chat and some other things, but we'll have to see if the slow loading persists today. There are ways to analyze and discover exactly what resources are being used and how each page is loading and I will be doing these things in the next day or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbstar1122 Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Very nice feature and very useful. Looks just like the Facebook version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTA Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Will it ever be possible to have an iPhone version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted November 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 I don't know yet whether this can happen or not. The software I'm using, arrowchat, will work on mobile devices (iOS for sure, not sure about Android) if you use full size browser (which I know is sort of impossible on a little screen). To make it work on the default mobile template that comes into play when you use a mobile device, I will have to insert some code into the mobile template (and I haven't figured out how to do that yet). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomboom Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 What, no sex in the Chat Room?! I suppose next you'll be telling me there's no chatting in the Sex Room! Love the chat! ...now THESE two posts one after the other... funny... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 When will I / we get a like, dislike, and or a F U button for our posts? I would love all 3. CrewC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted November 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 At the bottom of this box "Reply to this topic" (where I am typing now) there are all the usual social media buttons including the ubiquitous "like" button. But I have no idea what they do! I suppose I could click on the like button and see what happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael P Clark Posted November 17, 2012 Report Share Posted November 17, 2012 I have added Chat feature to JWSOUND Here are some general tips on its use (looking at Chat Bar): 1. on off switch to the right side will Hide Chat (so you don't have to look at it at all) 2. Notifications is a notification system and I'm not quite sure how it works yet 3. Chat Rooms are Group Chats --- everyone online can participate in any of the Rooms available and each member can start their own Room. You can leave the Room by clicking on the open door icon. You have to LEAVE the main chat room (JWSOUNDGROUP Meeting Room) before you can start your own Chat Room. 4. Chat (x) is the general chat --- clicking on a member starts a chat with that member 5. Applications (on the left of the Chat Bar) is for additional apps, features, not yet installed General Note: Clicking on any of the headers in the bar will bring up the feature and at the top of the header once launched, there is a GEAR icon for settings (this is where you can turn on or off the annoying "pop" sound for chat activity). Clicking on the header bar again will collapse that feature. One function that often goes unnoticed is the function of having a chat in its own window --- this is referred to as "Pop Out the Chat". Video Chat: There is a Video Chat feature which at this point does not work so well but you are welcome to try it. It is really pretty badly designed and relies heavily on Adobe Flash (of course). I'm sorry if I'm missing something here, but I've been searching these pages over and over and can't seem to find this Chat feature. How do I get to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted November 17, 2012 Report Share Posted November 17, 2012 It used to be in the lower right hand corner of the screen but it seems to have vanished. Perhaps Jeff can clear up the mystery. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted November 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2012 There have been problems with Chat so it has been de-activated, re-installed, then removed again, etc., etc. It is back now but you will have to refresh your browser most probably to see the Chat Bar at the bottom of the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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