i am on cooking.stackexchange.com there's no chat feature local to that site yet. i can set up a cooking chat room here, but it won't be linked to the questions on cooking.se.com
each se site will eventually have it's own chat.subject.stackexchange.com
Just note, if a lot of conversation starts going on in here it would be best to move to the Tavern or another channel. @MarcGravell Reads the log to check for ideas and/or bugs, and we don't want to make him wade through unrelated messages
I would be surprised if they rollout chat for the SE sites before the graduate from Beta status as there's no guarantee a site will do that until the evaluation at the end of the beta.
@Chacha102, this is directly related to chat feedback is it not?
@rchern I'm not saying its not. I'm just making a PSA
I have a feeling they will have it even during beta. Especially because the active community members will want to discuss the direction in which the site should be going
UI question about links. From the comment permalinks, there is a transcript, with two links: chat | utc. If you click chat it comes back to the room. If you click utc it goes to the day's full transcript. The transcript page has two links as well: chat | local. Local is the name/link of that page. Why the difference between utc, the link name, and local, the destination page?
Check it out by clicking the gray arrow next to a post. You'll see what I mean. The 'utc' link goes to the 'local' page, so if there is a difference, the links make it seem as if two different words are being used for the same thing.
:58656 Testing a reply to my own message.
testing a reply to shog9's message
neat feature.
:58642 one more test
Minor UI, but if you use the reply feature on your own message, it doesn't 'work': it doesn't highlight the post (or a previous post you select), nor does it tell you the feature doesn't work for your own message. Instead it inserts a 5 digit number beneath your post.
feature-request: the 'featured posts' sidebox should allow you to expand the quote without taking you to the entire transcript of that day's chat. the two places I looked first for this were the gray box that appears on mouseover, and the ellipsis.
If the [subjective] tag were removed, I imagine another equally vague tag would simply rise to take its place as a way to categorize all of the somewhat-out-of-place-on-SO questions that currently wear the [subjective] brand. My guess would be that [discussion] and/or [poll] might be pressed into...
but, I don't really see those tags on SU or SF to the degree we had them on SO. So I believe these meta-tags became (incorrectly, of course) institutionalized and accepted
the only one that might prove troublesome is [homework]
@JeffAtwood [learning] is borderline, I just retagged an [untagged] to be [learning] (and something else) because it actually was about the learning process
I'm thinking some kind of "admin" mode (for chat) that displays lots of checkboxes (or other selector) and lets us move a bunch of messages between rooms... worth it ? Or overkill?
In chat, as well as showing the unread count in the page (i.e. browser tab) title, also show an indication that you were refereed to (@name) in one of those unread messages.
(5) Chat Feedback
could become
(5#) Chat Feedback
Updated: as Marc noted, 5+ is likely to be interpreted as >5.
@MarcGravell Replying to your own post is certainly not common. I just noticed it as non-functional without a warning. I'm not sure you want to 'fix' it, I just figured that anything which doesn't work shouldn't half-work and not say why.
@MarcGravell On the merits, being able to link to a past post could be useful for a discussion which covers a long period of time, or takes place in a busy room. Still minor, but a possible function.
@MarcGravell On the merits, being able to link to a past post could be useful for a discussion which covers a long period of time, or takes place in a busy room. Still minor, but a possible function.
Ok. I still contend that it's potentially useful to "reply" to your own posts, but this is incredibly minor and would probably get used almost not at all.
when i look at the room list with the "all" tab selected and the "active" button selected, I don't see the C# room. But if I selected the "people" button, it's there in that list. Is this intentional?
The C# room hasn't had any chat since yesterday, but then neither have other rooms that do appear in the "active" list.
Hey @Marc, I assume you're going to move stars on oneboxes somewhere other than below the box? a bit annoying how everything jumps up and down when I mouse over the screen
On oneboxes too? like the one about the magic links in chat above?
When I mouseover on that, it expands downards to make room for the star, which is then on a line of its own, when I move the mouse away, it hides and contracts back up
In chat, as well as showing the unread count in the page (i.e. browser tab) title, also show an indication that you were refereed to (@name) in one of those unread messages.
(5) Chat Feedback
could become
(5#) Chat Feedback
Updated: as Marc noted, 5+ is likely to be interpreted as >5.
Hey can we get blog.stackoverflow.com to be a magic link too?
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