Chat Room?

Aliantha • Oct 21, 2006 8:33 pm
What's the chances boss?
Undertoad • Oct 21, 2006 8:42 pm
Highly likely. Let me work on it
Aliantha • Oct 21, 2006 8:43 pm
awesome!
DucksNuts • Oct 21, 2006 8:50 pm
Woo Hoo!!

Chat's great, so long as the history isnt saved anywhere
Undertoad • Oct 21, 2006 8:52 pm
Oh no, the full transcript must be available.
JayMcGee • Oct 21, 2006 8:57 pm
ugh..... no way could I deal with you people in real-time....
footfootfoot • Oct 21, 2006 9:30 pm
JayMcGee wrote:
ugh..... no way could I deal with you people in real-time....


What if the chat room had paisley background? Would that be surreal enough for you? BTW, I found amongst the inchlings hoard of Lesney matchbox cars from a consignment shop a 1968 Mustang with, yes, graphic daisies.

Ask nicely and I'll scan it to Doodads.
:p
JayMcGee • Oct 21, 2006 9:39 pm
well, yardboy, I might consider it if you back-projected images of the Shea Stadium concert.....
footfootfoot • Oct 21, 2006 10:05 pm
It is so:
DucksNuts • Oct 21, 2006 10:33 pm
Undertoad wrote:
Oh no, the full transcript must be available.


No no noooooooo!!!!


Often, whatever I am thinking just appears on the screen in front of me without conscious thought....thats not good in real time.
JayMcGee • Oct 21, 2006 10:49 pm
lol.... nice one, yardboy....



(forgives the anachrosm of a 68 mustang at the shea stadium concert.., 'cos I know your heart is in the right place (probably Height-Ashbury circa '67))
Undertoad • Oct 21, 2006 11:02 pm
Beta test a chat room

Your privacy cannot be guaranteed. You will have to reenter your user name for now. I can integrate it later. Assume that the log will be posted. We should vote on that. In the meantime this is just a test thanku.
DucksNuts • Oct 21, 2006 11:12 pm
its cool - thanks UT :D
Phase • Oct 21, 2006 11:22 pm
Decent little chat script you've got. I haven't checked out the source but it shouldn't be too hard to make it use the forum username. A suggestion would be you HAVE to be logged into the forum to use it, otherwise someone could easily impersonate another.
rkzenrage • Oct 22, 2006 1:03 am
Just so you all know... I will be touching myself.
DucksNuts • Oct 22, 2006 1:25 am
How good are you at typing with one hand???
Aliantha • Oct 22, 2006 1:39 am
Hmmm...just went into the chat room and it's not letting me post
DucksNuts • Oct 22, 2006 1:47 am
Really?? maybe its heard about you?
Aliantha • Oct 22, 2006 1:49 am
lol...I doubt it. It should be grateful though. Without us, it wouldn't even exist today!
DucksNuts • Oct 22, 2006 1:51 am
can you see stuff in there?
Aliantha • Oct 22, 2006 1:53 am
yeah...just can't post any messages. I"m thinking it's probably not working now and was just up for a test before. I'm sure it'll be sorted soon enough...or I'll figure out what I"m doing wrong. ;)
wolf • Oct 22, 2006 1:56 am
entertaining. The green skin makes me all nostalgic.
DucksNuts • Oct 22, 2006 2:01 am
wolf n I can post ...ner ner na ner ner
Aliantha • Oct 22, 2006 2:04 am
well that farking sucks
Clodfobble • Oct 22, 2006 8:33 am
I can't post either. But maybe that's because it doesn't think I've typed anything--my little character count stays at zero no matter what I've typed. It also doesn't show that anyone else is in there, but that may be true now.
Clodfobble • Oct 22, 2006 8:48 am
Different bug now: I closed everything to go put my kiddo back down to sleep, and came back and re-opened the Cellar. Now when I enter my username to get into the chatroom it says that username already exists. I do use the "keep me logged in" cookie for the main board, if that makes a difference.
Undertoad • Oct 22, 2006 8:54 am
This chat is not surviving its beta.
Clodfobble • Oct 22, 2006 8:56 am
FWIW, the effort is appreciated, I think a chat function would be neat.
bluecuracao • Oct 22, 2006 9:02 am
The chat would be really cool! But I had the same problem that Clod had.
slang • Oct 22, 2006 9:41 am
I cant seem to access the chat room with my 45 caliber, bicycle mounted shoe phone/web surfer.


Damn it all. :(
Ibby • Oct 22, 2006 9:51 am
My friend Coz runs the Tally Hall fansite HiddenInTheSand.com, and the chat function there is wonderful. It's from http://www.tufat.com/

EDIT: http://www.tufat.com/s_flash_chat_chatroom.htm, but it's five bucks.

EDIT 2: the current cellar chat has no log out feature, too, which is the reason clodfobble cant sign back in.
wolf • Oct 22, 2006 10:20 am
I logged in several times trying it out last night with no problems.
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 22, 2006 10:44 am
It sensed your super powers....Chuck Norris wouldn't have trouble either.;)
skysidhe • Oct 22, 2006 10:52 am
I can't keep logged in the Cellar via Opera. I don't even have regular powers!
Elspode • Oct 22, 2006 1:40 pm
I could log in, and type in the typing line, but it wouldn't post what I typed. Then, when I got out, I couldn't get back in 'cause it said I was already there.
SteveDallas • Oct 22, 2006 4:18 pm
Jeez, I go away for less than 24 hours and look what y'all do.

How about a plain old IRC server, with a browser-based client for those who can't/won't install a client of their own. It would be super if it would authenticate against the existing Cellar username/password database, but I'm sure that's way more easily said than done.
Undertoad • Oct 22, 2006 4:40 pm
We already have a lot of security problems w/o opening up IRC, is my sense of it.

I will look for better chat software. I would like to do it without Java. It seems to me that chat is the perfect AJAX application.
limey • Oct 22, 2006 6:49 pm
Ooooooooooooooh golly! I haven't been in a chatroom for years ... :3_eyes:
DucksNuts • Oct 22, 2006 8:21 pm
Hmmm strange, I went in and out, in and out like a bad porn movie and posted my little head off (to myself mainly, but with wolf too......well...LJ posted "cock!" but thats it).

I do think we need to log in with passwords though (preferably), you can sign in as anything the way it is at the moment.

Ohhh....second thoughts....that has a lot of fun potential!!
Phase • Oct 22, 2006 9:44 pm
I run an IRC network if you want to setup camp there Undertoad, let met know and I'll give you the details.
Aliantha • Oct 23, 2006 9:44 pm
UT...can you try opening a room at chat-forum.com I can access those rooms.