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Ilya Ryzhenkov

8:27 AM

Hey, what is the standard procedure to unfreeze a room?

Diago

Depends who froze it. Which one?

Ilya Ryzhenkov

It was frozen due to inactivity, I was on vacation :)

#ReSharper

Diago

Done

Ilya Ryzhenkov

thanks!

9 hours later…

Juan Manuel

6:03 PM

Is there an ETA for chat on the SE sites? /cc @balpha

balpha

the first one might happen next week

Juan Manuel

nice

Diago

@balpha Please switch off the random flagging script. Pretty please :P

Juan Manuel

would it be in order of creation? Chosen specifically?

balpha

@JuanManuel chosen specifically -- we probably don't want to start with SO, being the largest

McKay

6:10 PM

@balpha Chosen specifically? /me points out that the gaming chat room has the most activity and posts :D

balpha

@McKay I doubt that any of the beta sites will ever get a chat site

I'd think they have to be out of beta first

badp

Pity, because beta sites need chat the most imho

balpha

but I might be wrong

we haven't really talked about that yet

badp

Well -- okay. A random beta site I will not mention is using chat the most.

Oh well, we can keep abusing MSO chat for the time being I guess :D

Juan Manuel

Q: Game recommendation room experiment

I created a chat room on meta.so as an experiment to help people get game recommendations. I figure that if that somehow works, we can have a room in our own chat.gaming (whenever it's available) for this... if it doesn't work, nothing is lost. Let's see how it goes. Opinions are welcomed

Diago

6:19 PM

@balpha You have such a sick sense of humor :P

balpha

by far not enough flagging going on here

badp

Oh, what a cute blue square

Juan Manuel

I added a star to the blue "rectangle"

I feel powerful

badp

Now the star is orange, which is prettier than black on blue

mmyers

If a message is flagged enough times to be deleted, is it true that you will lose 10 points on Meta?

Diago

6:29 PM

@mmyers How many times does it need to be flagged to be deleted?

badp

Only one way to know @mmyers

Juan Manuel

@badp not true, there is more than one way

balpha

6:42 PM

@Diago FlagsLimitAutoDelete = 5

badp

Three in, two left

Is that blue there to stay? It looks like a doubleplusgood star right now.

"This message is 400% more awesome!"

devinb

@balpha He asked you a simple question, and you answer him in a different language? Very Rude.

Diago

@balpha FeatureUnderstood = true

balpha

Actually, I answered in many languages (most, actually -- except Pascal). That's very courteous of me.

Diago

@balpha TooManyFlags = true

balpha

6:55 PM

you're a mod, you can clear them :)

granted, the ui isn't pretty yet

but it works

Diago

@balpha FYI, Clearing moderator flags doesn't immediatly refresh the page.

balpha

2 mins ago, by balpha

granted, the ui isn't pretty yet

more like "barely usable"

Diago

@balpha You slacked off. That's not acceptable, I had you in such high regard until now. I mean you work for StackOverflow :P

devinb

@balpha touche!

1 hour later…

Hello71

8:00 PM

@devinb: Touché!

devinb

American Laptop keyboard, no numpad. too much of a pain to get special characters.

badp

8:36 PM

@devinb Numpad?

devinb

Normally I would type alt-0223 on the numberpad to get the accented e

badp

You remember that by heart? O.O

devinb

Try it, you'll find that I didn't. It's actually 0233

But yes. I do know it by heart, because I used to use it all the time.

rchern

*0233? @devinb, do you have a function key? most laptops i've seen work with that

devinb

But now I'm on a laptop w/o numpad.

badp

8:39 PM

Fn numpad is pita (possibly impossible to appreciate)

devinb

doesn't work

rchern

@badp, I didn't say it isn't...but in life vs death, it at least is an option. (;

badp

@devinb It's fn + numpad enabling key, then pressing "numpad" keys, then fn + numpad disabling key

where the "numpad" keys should have the digits printed in little on a side of the key

devinb

wow.

that takes a lot of effort

badp

2 mins ago, by badp

Fn numpad is pita (possibly impossible to appreciate)

Michael Mrozek

8:42 PM

37 secs ago, by devinb

That was easy

devinb

@badp Although, I said it couldn't be done, and you proved me wrong. So... touché

badp

Actually, it was @rchern mentioning the possibility

I merely explained how it worked on my laptop

If you really needed it that much you should've made your own keyboard layout with it :)

Shog9

9:07 PM

FEATURE REQUEST: make edit window a per-room, owner-defined value

Josh

@Shog9 What do you mean by that?

Shog9

FEATURE REQUEST: make edit privileges a per-room, owner-defined value

(allow limited, Wave-style collaboration by allowing ongoing, multi-user edits on a per-room basis)

@Josh would like to be able to turn off the time-limit on when edits can be made, and also open up editing to multiple users

Josh

@Shog9 Oh! I gotcha. I like it.

Gold star for you :-)

Josh

9:44 PM

Are there people activly working on an XMPP based way to access the chat?

I'd like to help with that if so, and I'd like to try my hand at it if not

Michael Mrozek

10:34 PM

@Josh There's this meta post, not that much came of it:

Q: Offer an XMPP method for chat

This is a request for the SO chat system to have an XMPP interface. The whole idea of a chat system is to bring people together, and a key way of doing that is to allow people to access the system using more than one method. Right now there's a web interface, but it's limited to being a web inte...