Chat feedback

Marc Gravell

9:44 AM

Did I mention the FAQ?

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If you are a regular here, you've probably noticed that we've been playing with a chat system for stackoverflow. Well, we think we're at a point where we can unveil it to the unruly horde. So; chat is now open! At the moment we're still limiting it to meta-stackoverflow, but ultimately every Sta...

Nick Craver

11:07 AM

Hey @marc, looks good...one question though, are the scripts supposed to be minified/combined/CDN based?

Currently the page has around a ~120kb and a dozen requests that could be saved, not sure if that's planned for later or just overlooked...since it was minified during the beta test.

Marc Gravell

11:24 AM

Heya; reading (sorry, was on the 'phone ;p)

Nick Craver

it's all good, tracking down a bug in our LINQ provider here :)

Marc Gravell

Yes, they are supposed to be minified, but I did switch build-servers yesterday - maybe something went "ping"

CDN - yes, that is planned (sstatic). Ditto image combination.

Nick Craver

I meant more of the script combination, and possibly pulling jQuery from the Google CDN?

I thought during beta you guys might have been leaving things intentionally debuggable remotely, just wasn't sure

Marc Gravell

nah; they were minified last time ;p

Nick Craver

easier to troubleshoot any leaks this way though :)

Marc Gravell

11:37 AM

but it does suggest my build script went ping. Oh, and it looks like the IP rate-limiter is unhappy too. But it generally works.

Nick Craver

i had firefox open for a moment in the same room, got a notification bar from that, not sure what the limit is though

if it's based just on requests, initially loading those JavaScript files may reach a cap quickly ;)

Marc Gravell

exactly; we're meant to be whitelisted until we get on sstatic. I know we fixed our internal dev server, but obviously chat.meta was missed.

Nick Craver

ah gotcha

just got kicked off SO again, I swear this has to be a real bug: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/59331/…

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After having been logged in for months on my Mac/Safari, twice within the last two days I've been greeted by the "Welcome to the Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers" message and had to re-login. I never click the log out button, nor have I cleared my cookies. Have there been rec...

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Marc Gravell

I agree. I used to get kicked from Chrome; but F5 and I was in again.

Re js; let's just say that there's a heavily-weighted 50% chance of getting the minified version ;p

yes I know that makes no statistical sense, but two servers; one much beefier that tends to pick up the work; guess which didn't minify?

Nick Craver

doh

if you feed them all into closure you can compile it all, since you're loading the same scripts in every room

Marc Gravell

11:44 AM

that is the compiler we're using

Nick Craver

with a jQuery extern reference you can compress them down a bit further, need to test for sure though

are you minifying each, or have a list you run though?

Marc Gravell

Try a hard-F5 now

Nick Craver

k

minified

Marc Gravell

at the moment we minify separately, but could merge them too. That needs slightly more work to the build process, though.

Nick Craver

I hear ya, have to do that here when I get time, the quick fix was a batch in the build for CSS/JS minification/compiling, soon will have time for a powershell port (and maybe IKVM, the JVM spool up time is 60% of a local build time currently)

batch file hides the exit codes of closure though, so the build doesn't fail if the compile does, which is a bit of a problem

Casebash

11:48 AM

The notification bar repeatedly appearing is annoying. i only need to see the message once!

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Marc Gravell

yes, we have that logged as a "todo"; let me kill that for now.

Casebash

The feeds section seems new. Could be good, although this depends on the rate that new questions are asked

Richard

So what's changed since the 3 day beta?

Nick Craver

this one's for more days!

Casebash

There was a 3 day beta? I only saw the 1 day beta

Marc Gravell

11:52 AM

@Codebash - see, blink and you miss it ;p

Richard

I see horizontal separators on the display... from time gaps?

Casebash

@MarcGravell: Its Casebash. And you now have auto-complete so you have no excuse =P

Yeh, what do those separators represent?

Marc Gravell

If only we had a FAQ...

Casebash

Isn't this it?

Nick Craver

whooooosh

Casebash

11:54 AM

And there is the screen that appears when you first log in

Marc Gravell

If you have chat open but we don't think you've seen new messages, the system adds a dotted line like this:

Anything below that should be new to you. If you are away for a longer period, your user profile allows you to get a summarized view of messages in your rooms (in particular if you are @mentioned, etc).

Richard

@MarcGravell that would be too easy, too much like reading the manual.

Nick Craver

I see rtffaq in our future

Marc Gravell

what we do is: we use your web-cam to track your eye movements. If you haven't scanned the line, we know.

Vivi

@MarcGravell haha

Marc Gravell

11:58 AM

Re "what's new"; mainly UI polish etc. The @autocomplete has been re-written (we dropped this just before the 3-day trial, as it was beyond flakey). Starring and flagging of existing items is a lot easier; the room-list has had some love...

...better support for mobile devices; popup mini-help...

...we've moved hardware; the UI for moderation is actually usable now...

...and just general tweaks, twiddles, etc.

Marc Gravell

Hi @Florin

@Casebash - are you still seeing the notification bar?

(intermittent) we seem to be missing a star icon on the right...

(goes looking for a missing image file)

Lol; the image is there, but it is this annoying known problem:

> There are an unusual number of requests coming from this IP address.

Richard

I see a silver and a gold star on the two favourite messages on the RHS... both have two votes, so why the different icon? (Or is it that I voted for one and not the other?)

Marc Gravell

the bit in brackets

rchern

12:28 PM

@MarcGravell, I feel like I remember upvoting a question about all the actions that open a new tab, but I can't find the question now. Any plans for changes there?

Marc Gravell

Well, mostly that is...

status-bydesign

rchern

Oh. ):

Marc Gravell

I don't think we've changed anything there at the moment, but it remains an option

Casebash

@Marc: No, not seeing it now

@MarcGravell: How did you do "status-bydesign"?

Marc Gravell

status-like-this

Nick Craver

12:32 PM

status-normal

Marc Gravell

;p [status-bydesign]

Casebash

[Thanks]

Marc Gravell

it has to be on a line by itself

rchern

Am I missing something that prevents me from ending up with lots of tabs open as a result of using the chat?

Marc Gravell

#fail!

Casebash

12:33 PM

It was on a line by itself

Nick Craver

Any chance of in-line links being detected without a line by themselves?

Marc Gravell

[status-*]

@rchern - we generally use it with just one tab, watching the "other rooms" pane

Casebash

status-thanks

Marc Gravell

@Nick - regular links are; for example raw stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23 or as markdown

did you have something else in mind?

Nick Craver

the regular links, SO, meta, questions, answer, wikipedia, all those detected ones, I assume via regex that doesn't tolerate anything else on the line

rchern

12:35 PM

The "more rooms" link is the biggest offender personally. New tab for joining each room and then later looking to see what other rooms exist.

Marc Gravell

@Nick deliberately... it would be hard to wrap that

Nick Craver

hard to wrap from a regex perspective or UI?

Marc Gravell

UI: what would it look like with meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/59438/… in the middle, but rendered?

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A: Public Beta of chat.meta.stackoverflow

In other news, productivity in start up software companies reached an all new low today.

rchern

Oh, are the sound notifications working for anybody? I bumped it up to "all" and I'm getting nothing.

Marc Gravell

@rchern - do you have flashblock?

HoLyVieR

12:37 PM

do you have your speaker on ?

Nick Craver

Oh I meant like this, say I wrote: This is a question: stackoverflow.com/questions/3396317/…

Then it would render that line, then the link below it

Richard

@rchern not here either, but I'm not sure anyone has directly mentioned me.

Nick Craver

not in the middle stripping it, just showing the match, as if it were this:

This is a question: stackoverflow.com/questions/3396317/…

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Feeds

Marc testing sound

Marc Gravell

sound works for me

Nick Craver

12:38 PM

think emoticon replacement, but it doesn't replace, it just sticks the smiley after

Marc Gravell

@Richard - now you don't feel left out

rchern

Yes my speaker is on, lol.

Richard

@Marc: now I hear things... so that is working.

Marc Gravell

@rchern what browser? I know we changed something there recently - maybe your browser doesn't like it ;(

@rchern - would an in-page room browser (popup from "more rooms") be preferable there, do you think?

rchern

Chrome Dev Channel, waits for "we don't support non-stable versions"

Richard

12:40 PM

Is there anyway to find what feed that @Feeds is following?

Marc Gravell

and no flashblock? (still checking...)

rchern

Just disabled it, and yeah I got a sound notification. After hearing the sound though...wow that's an annoying sound! oO

HoLyVieR

just put music in the back, it's a bit less annoying that way

Marc Gravell

Re "Feeds" - what is the actual question there? What is it you want to know?

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Q: Suggest message beeps, blips and boops for the third place (the chat)

What beeps, blips or boops should be used when for the third place? I am talking about the sound played when a message is received on chat.meta.stackoverflow.com and pals.

discussion chat

rchern

@MarcGravell, re the "more rooms", the space underneath the favorited questions is half my browser height. Are there plans for that space? Maybe a rooms listing?

Marc Gravell

12:46 PM

But you already get a (limited) rooms listing in "other rooms"...?

rchern

Otherwise yeah, and I could easily see Transcript/Search/Info being modal.

But if I'm just joining chat, and there's multiple rooms I want to join?

Marc Gravell

it shouldn't be the limiting reason, but yes; that space does have other things; flagged posts can appear there, for example

@rchern - actually, we did discuss a "rejoin all my favorites" - would that do?

rchern

And if I'm a curious bugger that likes to know what else is there or what else got created :p

Marc Gravell

you can do that via the lobby of course... but you want everything here, don't you ;p

Maybe new rooms as they appear could scroll somewhere...

Richard

Re: Feeds: How do I find out what feed is "Feeds" following in this room?

rchern

12:50 PM

It'd help, but in general, something to avoid a bunch of new tabs. Anytime I want to look at the rooms, do a search, view the transcript, view the info.

Marc Gravell

In this room? it isn't

rchern

I can hardly read the tab names in my browser from having multiple SE sites open, once I get chat tabs going it is hopeless. (;

Marc Gravell

which reminds me; Jin still owes me some favicons

Richard

@Marc: so how come @Feeds appears above?

rchern

What about adding a line for Feeds in the chat info?

Marc Gravell

12:53 PM

@Richard - I used a dev hook for that; I needed to test the sound; I can push a message from Feeds

Actually, we can now have multiple "Feeds" users, with their own names/icons/etc - only really useful for the longer-life rooms, but useful.

Richard

@Marc: "dev hook": one step up from diamond mod? :-)

Thanks

Marc Gravell

@rchern - "a line for Feeds in the chat info?" - sorry, I don't follow.

rchern

In the info link (new tab grrr) for a room, if Feeds is pushing messages in: "Feeds will announce new posts for <url>."

Marc Gravell

Oh right; I see. That info is available to the room owner(s), but I can see how that would be useful for room users. Thanks. That's a good idea.

rchern

Just going off @Richard's comment.

I need 2 rows of tabs :p

Marc Gravell

1:01 PM

need a wider monitor ;p

Nick Craver

open more chrome windows :)

rchern

I do! That's just my StackExchange window!

Marc Gravell

@rchern - added ;p (the feeds stuff; not the wider monitor; sorry)

@Richard - yes, there is now; he/it/whatever just isn't following anyone here.

Richard

So summary: if a feed is hooked into a room it is listed on the info page. But in this room there is no feed, and the appearance of @Feeds was due to @MarcGravell going behind the scenes...

Feeds

correct

Richard

1:20 PM

@MarcGravell :-)

rchern

1:44 PM

@Marc, what do you mean not the wider monitor? I'm sitting by my door waiting for the delivery.

Michael Mrozek

2:16 PM

How are the feed channels created? Is there a way for users to make them?

Marc Gravell

in your own room, sure. Or they can be added by a moderator

Michael Mrozek

Ah, victory. I didn't realize the create room screen has less options than the edit room screen

Hmm. So clicking "edit" in a room opens a new window, but saving changes in that new window takes you back to the room, so now you're in the room twice. It should probably close the new window instead

It took me a minute to figure out how I ended up in the same room three times

Richard

4:07 PM

Feedback: If would be nice if the title (i.e. shown on tabs) included an indication of on which open tab I was mentioned. The sound tells me I was, but with a few tabs open to different rooms it is not always obvious where.

Chacha102

It would be nice to have a designated moderator room where you can go if you need to talk to a moderator.

It would also be nice if when I started typing in Chat, it would automatically focus the input box.

Chacha102

4:35 PM

It would be nice if there was a quick switch menu that listed all of the rooms I'm currently in, and gave me a list to switch between them. Especially since not all the rooms are visible in the "Others rooms you're in' widget

Richard

@Chacha102 If you have a suggestion -- add it to MSO tagged [chat] and [feature-request]

Chacha102

Ok. So this isn't suggestions, just feedback. Ok

C. Ross

I see a dotted line between some posts in most rooms. What is that?

Richard

@CRoss See the FAQ

It separates where the chat system thinks you have unread messages

rchern

^^ based on window focus

C. Ross

4:47 PM

Got it. Unfortunately it often stick around after I've obviously seen them

balpha

@Chacha102 click "show n more", then all rooms you're currently in should be visible

regarding the "focus input box on start typing":

I don't think that's a good idea, I don't like hijacking the user's keyboard more than neccessary

also, it's focused by default

regarding the moderator room:

Chacha102

Well, it just seems that the purpose of chat is suppose to be like a chat client, and thats what most of my chat clients do

balpha

if you need to talk to a moderator about something, you probably want that in private

so just having an open room doesn't make sense

you can always flag something for moderator attention, and in the text box say that you want to discuss the issue

if the moderator agrees, they can create a private room and invite you there

balpha

re the typing issue again:

I see your point, even if I disagree

Chacha102

that would be a good idea

balpha

5:00 PM

maybe post on meta, to see what others think?

Chacha102

about the Chat focus thing?

balpha

yes

Chacha102

Will do. Right now I'm creating a Question Feed room with feeds from all the sites

balpha

which makes sense because ... ?

Chacha102

It is testing out how much the feed system can handle

balpha

5:04 PM

Hmm.. I'll let you do that for now

Chacha102

Hello Shog

Richard

@Chacha102 I would guess the answer will be "more than you ":-)

Chacha102

Oh wait, you're a moderator

balpha

but I don't think it would be a very useful room

Chacha102

I just realized that

Wait.. you can't delete a room?

rchern

5:05 PM

In general, the more keyboard shortcuts and the less I have to touch my mouse, the better.

balpha

I can

Chacha102

Well duh..

rchern

Pretty much everything but actually typing your message depends on the mouse.

Chacha102

I would just expect us to have some sort of either vote - to - delete or delete mechanism

a soft delete of course

but a delete none-the-less

rchern

Hmm, I guess before they say that, are there keyboard shortcuts? I haven't seen any documented.

balpha

5:07 PM

yes, we're just not sure yet when exactly (and to whom) deletion should be allowed

that's why it's currently mod-only

Chacha102

Yeah, that makes sense

My thoughts would be that you should be able to soft-delete rooms you created

balpha

@rchern no keyboard shortcuts

Chacha102

Everything is still viewable, but it isn't on the home page

balpha

@Chacha102 you can edit your post

no need for footnotes or s/smething/something

press the up arrow to edit the last post

Chacha102

?

Oh .. yeah

balpha

5:09 PM

or click to the left of the message and "edit"

rchern

@balpha, are they on the radar?

Chacha102

So there are keyboard shortcuts

just very few

balpha

well yeah, while you're in the input box

Chacha102

But what if I'm trying to type an up-arrow?

balpha

@rchern could you give a useful example?

rchern

5:11 PM

switching rooms

starring a message

Chacha102

I'd like a shortcut that automatically focused the input box

balpha

how would you choose the room or the message?

rchern

open search / transcript / info

Chacha102

like pressing enter would focus it

Press 'R' to get a drop down menu that you can select via up and down arrows

and then press enter to go

So 'R' > Down Arrow > Enter

rchern

Ideally, I could see the interface having tabs per each room that I could alt+left/right to cycle.

balpha

5:14 PM

hmm... while I'm not totally averse to the idea, I wouldn't consider it high-priority; especially since the chat will be there for all stack exchange sites. And I have had my fair share of noticing that regular people (tm) don't use/care about/understand keyboard shortcuts

rchern

My main use of the mouse is when I'm full screen in rdc and can't get back to my own computer with alt+tab. And this chat.

I mean, the mouse is great for browsing around the internet or something, but if you're typing, it is such a pain to move to the mouse. Yeah, I'm weird, but eh. (;

balpha

I'm totally with you

but I see my ex-boss

her whole business is dealing with text

writing, correcting, revising, etc.

she refused to use Ctrl-C Ctrl-V

she insisted on "Edit -> Copy" "Edit -> Paste"

rchern

There's always going to be 2 sides to every coin.

Chacha102

The IP rate limiting is very annoying on this site

because so many resources are being loaded every refresh

rchern

I've never seen the magical rate limiting notice. I'm starting to feel left out.

Chacha102

5:19 PM

2-3 refreshes in quick succession get me banned

rchern

What are you refreshing?

Chacha102

I was clicking the remove button on 10-15 room reeds I needed to remove

balpha

@Chacha102 the load balancer isn't set up for chat usage yet; that's in the works. Also, we're currently including some 10 or so .js files -- that's obviously going to change in the long run

Richard

@rchern Clearly you need a bigger screen so you don't need to run remote sessions full screen.

status-boss-is-here

Chacha102

lol

Hows it going Jeff?

rchern

5:23 PM

Heh. I've got 3 monitors at work. 2 for work. 1 for rdc'ing into my home computer.

What is it with people telling me I need a bigger monitor? That's like the 3rd time today from people in this chat.

Chacha102

The Question feed is awesome!

Jeff Atwood

three monitor high fiiiive! codinghorror.com/blog/2006/12/…

Chacha102

It has so many feeds!

Richard

Bigger also has advantages, not just number.

rchern

Allo @Jeff

I only have 1 monitor at home, but it's a 23" ws 2048x1152 so I'm happy enough.

Richard

5:24 PM

1920x1200 on my main monitor means I can run big remote sessions withoyt needing for screen

balpha

@Chacha102 You happy with your feed room? Can I delete it now?

Chacha102

lol, sure

Jeff Atwood

@balpha we should have an auto-delete (culling) mechanism for rooms that are created but nobody talks in

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rchern

My work monitors are 1280x1024. Going home to my own monitor is nice.

Chacha102

So, I'm guessing we'd have to continuously recreate the 'Evan Carroll Fan Club' room?

balpha

5:26 PM

@JeffAtwood No feature requests please, I'm on vacation :)

Sitting on a camping ground, the radio is sending a "You don't need the internet while on vacation" report. Meh...

Tweeted by balpha on August 3, 2010 at 7:06 AM

rchern

@Jeff, would Feeds count as someone talking?

Jeff Atwood

no, feeds don't bump room state.. we changed that

rchern

Then I won't suggest that. (:

Chacha102

Wait, so I can put in a Twitter Status URL?

I'd really like it if my windows would organize themselves to efficiently take up my screen space, instead of auto-maximizing.

Tweeted by chacha102 on August 2, 2010 at 12:45 AM

balpha

you can do all sorts of fun stuff

Chacha102

5:29 PM

Sweet!

Shog9

@Chacha102: yeah - handy when this chat just lets you type too much stuff

balpha

try wikipedia, amazon, stack overflow...

Shog9

@balpha TAB COMPLETE!!!

balpha

but there's a sandbox room for that :)

Chacha102

That's sweet

Shog9

5:30 PM

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Chacha102

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rchern

What's up with the inconsistency in the info shown on the left? Full display name, display name broken at a space, rep shown, rep not shown...

balpha

going for dinner now; cu

Chacha102

yeah..

I think it is based on how big your message is

one liners don't get anything but your name. Longer posts get reputation

Jeff Atwood

on the "right"? you mean "left"?

Chacha102

5:32 PM

yes, he did

Shog9

in Europe, right means "left"

Chacha102

In Soviet Russia, Left Rights You!

Nothing? Gonna have to work harder on that one..

rchern

I'm running on 4 hours of sleep, was up until 3:30am working. I may not be all here.

@Chacha102, I'd have starred it, but I didn't feel like moving my hand to the mouse. :p

Popular Demand

Having just arrived here from "Chat is here; join us..." I have to ask what a gray background on a room means.

Michael Mrozek

@Popular It's locked

Jeff Atwood

5:38 PM

that needs to be in the /faq -- adding it to my todo.txt

Chacha102

Wouldn't that be better signified by a lock symbol?

Popular Demand

Hurrah! I'm helping!</zoidberg>

Jeff Atwood

lock icons are also used for private and the rare, hidden rooms

Popular Demand

THERE ARE CHAT VIP ROOMS???

Jeff Atwood

we have some private rooms for moderators

rchern

5:39 PM

Oh, speaking of the FAQ, during the 3-day beta, wasn't a link to the FAQ added to the room page? (not the list of rooms but this window right here)? I don't see it anywhere. Not obvious how to get to the FAQ now?

Jeff Atwood

also, we have a room where we talk about you.. secretly. SHHH!

Chacha102

and one where Jeff is fed all of his YouTube references by little gnomes

Shog9

so wait, the locked rooms are gray, and the hidden rooms are visible (but have lock icons)?

Popular Demand

Plural you, or me personally?

Chacha102

Just you Popular. Just you.

Popular Demand

5:42 PM

Hurrah! People are paying attention to me!</zoidberg>

Richard

@rchern bottom right there is a "help" link, this goes to the FAQ

Jeff Atwood

suggestion: we need per-site chat sounds. Right now I have the other chat site open and I can't tell its "new" sound from this site's "new" sound.

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Popular Demand

There are SOUNDS?

Chacha102

Which site?

Yes, click the little sound icon next to more rooms

Jeff Atwood

@shog9 no, the hidden rooms are not visible. Lock would be for rooms where only specified people can talk.

Popular Demand

5:43 PM

Perhaps per-site = per-room?

@Chacha thanks, it's that I'm not wearing my headphones while having lunch.

Michael Mrozek

Channel occupants should be able to vote on the sounds for that room. There's no way this plan could go wrong

Shog9

I'm not wearing any pants while having breakfast - how does this effect the site?

Chacha102

@Jeff Wouldn't the 'Gallery' be more like a 'Moderated' room or something of the sort

rchern

@Richard, Ah. And omg! A link that doesn't open in a new tab!

Popular Demand

+1 @MichaelMrozek

+1 @AutocompleteOfNamesWithTabKey

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Michael Mrozek

5:45 PM

Oh, it does work for me, you just need the @. +1 @PopularDemand

Marc Gravell

@rchern - for FAQ - you see the "help" link bottom right?

Chacha102

@MichaelMrozek They need to be able to upload sounds. That really couldn't go wrong.

@Jeff will this ever be moved to chat.stackoverflow.com?

or at least have that redirect here

rchern

@MarcGravell, yup, @Richard pointed it out. (:

Richard

@JeffAtwood either different sounds or some other indication...

Popular Demand

@JeffAtwood perhaps one sound for the room that has focus and another sound for all other rooms?

Chacha102

5:48 PM

Well, right now you can turn of sounds for other rooms completely and only get sounded for the focused room

but two different sounds might work

Would be nice if the Chat rooms were cross domain, meaning I could join a Serverfault Chat room and still be able to access it like another Meta Chat Room.

and still have is listed in my other rooms list

Richard

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Q: Show where you were referenced in the page title

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

feature-request chat

rchern

Haha, oh man...if the number of tabs I have just from this worries me...and then this goes to each site. Oy.

Chacha102

@rchern Well, you only need one per site for chat

Marc Gravell

yes, I believe there will be chat.stackoverflow.com - but just meta for now

Chacha102

all updates for the individual rooms go in the "Other Rooms You're In" box

and technically you're still "in" those rooms

You don't have to have a window open to be "in" those rooms

Michael Mrozek

5:51 PM

@Marc When I go there and join a room will the "other rooms you're in" show the list from both sites? I think that's what he wanted

rchern

@Chacha102, but opening tabs to do just about anything...

Chacha102

@rchern For my basic use (After getting the rooms I want open) I almost need no tabs

rchern

But eh, I won't dwell on that again, been there done that.

Popular Demand

Right then, lunch over. This is a bit too much of a toy for me to justify keeping it open all day... see yinz later. Chat feedback: looks pretty good overall.

Chacha102

this is a very fun toy

I probably have something I'm suppose to be doing, but w/e.

Shog9

5:55 PM

Chat Feature Request: show words as they're being typed. Current behavior isn't real timey enough

Chacha102

@shog Yeah, We miss out on your most amusing typos...

Shog9

and horrible spelling. Don't forget the atrocious spelling.

your eyes would be bleeding, if this was properly real-time.

ALL of your eyes.

There would be eye-blood everywhere.

Chacha102

I love that I can follow your conversation in another room from this room

I feel like such a stalker

Shog9

you are a stalker

MARC!!! Chacha is STALKING ME

Chacha102

don't knock it till you've tried it...

Shog9

6:02 PM

/knock @Chacha102

Chacha102

@shog9 GET OFF MY LAWN!!

badp

6:18 PM

wow, now decorating Weblog's messages with preetty red flags has become easier than ever!

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