TOPIC: New Chat System Active

Cinta wrote:
Why does it matter to you? What on Earth could the people who do it have to gain by doing so? Exactly how are they being "sneaky"? If they're online and they want to post, they'll do so. If they're online and don't want to post, then they won't. And if they're offline, they're offline. What difference do those differing scenarios make to you?

And I always show myself as online, by the way. But if other people don't want to, that's fine by me.

Cinta wrote:
Post 37 on the previous page tells you what to do so that you dont need to always click it away... just turn it off and miminise it, and it stays that way when you browse. truth-zone.net/forum/faq-and-feedback-centre/63575-new-chat-system-active.html?start=20#121459

Cinta wrote:
All forums that i know of have the appear online yes/no aka private surfing feature. I dont see the big deal, its a personal choice.

novum wrote:
Ok.
it is only just last week last mr Oracle accused me of not being Dutch
and having a UK IP flag on TZ
Ofcourse this ridiculous,and I want to see Oracles IP flag too,but he is
too much of a coward to show himself as online.
Oh well never mind.

novum wrote:
Good idea.
Never came back to this thread because the shrink dink suggestion works fine.
But it would be better if it didn't load at every page change and again after each positng.

zax wrote:
I'll turn it off from the site next time im in admin.. i know some people including newcomers wont know how to minimise it, and it 'forgets' to stay minimised when one clears their cookies etc.

It can simply be accessed via the 'Live Chat' main menu item anyway, which opens the chat full size in a new window.

You never know, it might pick up one day ... its not a bad chat platform, especially for the money.

Good deal.
Thanks.

Is the 'Live Chat' feature supposed to be currently operational, as it doesn't load up properly for me in Firefox or Opera? It starts to load up and then just permanently hangs it seems.

Sorry mate that one up there is not operational, the providers seem to have canned it even tho the bill was getting paid, i tried to contact them but no response. Shame as it was a proper chat set up.

Alls we have now is this chat box

truth-zone.net/tz-chatbox.html

I'll get rid of that top link when i get a moment to avoid confusion, or edit it to link to the chatbox that does work perhaps.

novum wrote:
This would probably make the most sense in my untechnical opinion. Do you know if many people use the chat box at all? If not, then I would humbly suggest trying to arrange a weekly slot of one hour, preferably on the weekend some time, when most of us are free to engage for a little while. Even better, can we not try to get up and running with another chat provider? I can remember when the chat function on DIF wasn't too bad, when it was actually working that is. I honestly reckon that the PTB may have fiddled with it.

muppetry wrote:
Oops doing the menu link slipped my mind , thanks for reminding me, should be sorted now.

Its total tumbleweeds in there tbh.. once upon a time the other chatrooms we had got some use.. and we had a thread re. your suggestion too, "I'll be in the chatroom @ whatever o'clock" or something, but that mightve been Sanctum Zone i cant remember so well now.

Which reminds me i better go turn that site on too, i turned it off the other day to fix something and forgot to re-instate it.

Re. another chat provider.. a good idea but im pressed for time sometimes... our hosting is also quite lowball so hosting the chat ourselves might be a stretch, and im not that much of a fan of 3rd party hosting and them holding the data etc but that doesnt mean im totally against the idea.

When i get the time and inspiration i may have a dig and see what can perhaps work.. again the one we had was good but no explanation as to why they pulled the service.. im thinking it was for 'political' reasons perhaps though, *cough* like you mentioned.

novum wrote:
Looks that way.

novum wrote:
Yes, I understand, people come and people go. It definitely was ok on DIF for a while though. There would be a few in there most evenings actually.

novum wrote:
I don't know much about this sort of thing, but my gut tells me it's best to avoid third party hosting.

novum wrote:
Yes, in this current climate, I could easily believe they pulled your service for political reasons. I don't think the Icke one quite got knocked out of action in the same way though. I think it was technically 'interfered' with, but yes, also for the same political reasons.