@balpha Do you think I should open a bug regarding the per site meta's not syncing profiles 24 hours later?

@Diago sure, why not?

Just trying to see how to replicate the problem. It seems that if you update your profile on one site and then copy it across, the meta sites don't sync.

@Diago, I read a question with something like that just now, is this related?

We really need a room for this type of stuff that is not chat feedback and Jeff can check once a day.

@Benjol Almost, but not quite. I want all my profiles to be the same :)

ok, just wondering :)

@Diago that's what meta is for, isn't it? Also, you could create a room for discussing possible SE bugs

@balpha Agreed. My brain has not woken up yet :P

@balpha, sort-of feature request. I'd quite like some way of switching to a not-yet-joined room, without having to open an extra tab with "all rooms". How about something like changing "other rooms your in" to "favourite rooms" and having switch|leave links for the ones your in and join|peek for the others?

just a thought

@balpha Good thing I didn't post. Not a bug, just tested every profile, and apart from having to login into SU/SF again, everything worked.

@Benjol I wouldn't go with that precise implementation, but I've been thinking about something to that effect

what would "peek" be?

@balpha, well, maybe it's just me, but there's something psychological about 'joining' a room just to see if anyone's said anything interesting. it feels "expensive"

Sometimes I just want to "peek", before I decide whether to join. Maybe it's the "loading" wait screen or something.

so you mean it would just be a link to the transcript?

uhm, I'm thinking out loud here, sorry if it's not making much sense

brb

@balpha, sorry. Work :)

What I want to be able to see is whether a room is worth visiting, without having to go to "all rooms". so that could be an excerpt from the transpcript, or just some indication of when the last activity was, and how many people are active there

so you want to see this:

... from within another room

@balpha However over the room name maybe?

Or even another button next to it?

Scratch that, won't work for rooms your not in

@Diago, I was proposing that "other rooms" would also show favourite rooms, even if you're not in them

@balpha that's probably more than I want to see :)

@Benjol I am not sure about that. I use the list to switch between the rooms I want to be in for example and to track activity in them.

@Diago, well, I've only got two favourite rooms :)

@Benjol I have around 7

@balpha, there's probably some clever algorithm to work out, but I'd like to know how many users are chatting right now in a my favourite rooms, (where 'right now' has a suitably fuzzy definition)

@Benjol it's not the precise number, but you can get an impression by checking your "favorites" tab and looking at the not-faded-out avatars

@balpha, yeah, I know, but I'd like that number in this page, so I don't have to keep an extra "all rooms" tab open, just to see what's going on. Maybe I'm asking too much..., and too vaguely

Something like:
other rooms:
Tavern (3 active) join
Chat feedback (2 active) join

let's put it this way: If everyone said "I want to know that people are talking right now before I join the room", all rooms would be empty :)

@balpha, most of them are! But that's another problem :)

@balpha When you quickly flag and unflag a message, you get the "You can perform this action again in 1 second" message. However, the message appears unflagged to you.

To notice that the flag has remained, you have to refresh the page.

okay, I'll look at that

Counterintuitively enough, then, you must flag the message to unflag it (and the message does appear as flagged). Or just refresh the page.

@balpha Hey! you fixed the thing where removing the last message in a chat room makes the "other rooms you're in" show the previous message.

Great Job!

huh?

@balpha When removing a message, the list on right doesn't show any activity if your message was the last one.

I'm probably way behind the times, but I just noticed the bouncing gravatar became a little number in the corner -- I wholeheartedly approve

@MichaelMrozek yeah, Jeff got annoyed when he was mentioned about a million times during the load test :)

and no, you're not that far behind

@balpha lol

Does it go in reverse chronological order?

I find the change offensive!

@devinb does what go in reverse chronological order?

Mostly I like it because it reminds me of Race for the Galaxy cards. And whenever possible I make UI decisions based on which looks more like Race for the Galaxy

@message me again.

Dammit... that cleared it.

@devinb no.

@devinb yes.

Perfect. thanks guys.

(What happens if you have more than 9 mentions? I could find out with the inspector, but that would be cheating.)

@badp it's not a circle anymore

@balpha I have a feature request... I think. When I'm going through a long list of replies because I've been away from my desk for a bit. I finish going through them, and I still end up in the middle of the chat.

Is there anyway to have the next click send you back to the bottom?

Or double clicking the message-entry box?

or the end key? :)

but I get your point

I agree, except that the end key is under the hand that is currently on the mouse :p

If there was a left handed short-cut key, I'd be fine.

Or a keyboardd short cut to cycle through those @messages.

Does the chat not let you have more than five messages in a row?

@devinb Mac's don't have end keys :P

I was trying in another room and it wasn't going well

@Diago I don't have macs :p

@MichaelMrozek define that

He tried to get me 10 mentions

@balpha I was spamming "@badp Test", and after five lines of that I couldn't get a sixth line to appear, it would send, appear for a second, and then disappear

Yes, if you repeatedly message it will cut you off.

if the message is character-by-character identical, it shouldn't even let you post it twice

Hmm. It did, or at least it appeared to from my end

I can't even post "a" follwed by "aa"

Oh, they didn't all go through after all

I'm looking at the transcript

@badp (you're at 8, the ones when I wasn't in the room don't count)

a

aa

Timeout issues?

yeah.

+1 for that thing @MichaelMrozek highlighted a few messages ago.

@badp It's your fault for slacking in the other room. I'm waiting for 9000 more replies

I can't get this feature to work: "A mention will also cause your avatar to bounce up and down, as if it's positively bursting with excitement. To stop the bouncing, click on the avatar, enter a message in the chat, or simply press esc."

firefox 3.6.8

The "*" only goes away when I send a new message.

@AlexB Bouncy died today prematurely due to popular demand.

However, my avatar still bounces in the Gaming room.

BOUNCY LIVES for a few more hours.

Ahh..

Actually I could consider hibernating tonight...

So the other thing that doesn't work is the "*" in the browser title doesn't go away until I write something.

That was supposed to be cleared by "esc"

I thought.

I thought escape still worked?

It doesn't

@badp. I think it works in some browsers, not others.

Typing and clicking on the new icon will clear it

firefox 3.6.8 does not work

@AlexB Do you see the number on your avatar next to the textbox?

yes.

it cleared when I sent the message

When you click it, it will go away and take you to the message that you were mentioned

Ahh.

Or when you type it will clear

mind mentioning me so I can test

Escape no longer works

?

@AlexB Test

Thanks.

And it replaced bouncy (RIP)

No Problem :)

That also clears the "*" in the browser title.

Correct

I thought I saw earlier that it wasn't supposed to bounce anymore?

Correct

It doesn't. Unless you haven't refreshed

Yeah, the escape feature is broken.

I have refreshed

several times

Strange. Complete Refresh? I had a problem in Safari where I had to refresh every room

Only have chat open in 1 tab.

alert me?

@rchern Ping

bouncy bouncy bouncy bounce

brb

@rchern You just missed the funeral

@rchern Do you get the number on your gravatar on the bottom-left?

Alert me again please?

@rchern Second ping!

bouncy bouncy bounce

@rchern Pong

Interesting

Which browser?

Or did I ask that already

@Diago Chrome 7 -- it used to work, then went on strike following Bouncy's murder

You and @rchern both it seems. Oh well. At least he still lives on someone's hard drive

I was talking about Escape

Bouncy is no more in new tabs

@badp So this is all @Popular Demand's fault?

@devinb When is it not?

@Diago when it's my fault :)

Sorry, silly work! master-chat.js?v=17493987 is what I've got

@devinb What the icosahedrons? I wasn't even here when... whatever you were talking about happened!

@PopularDemand I don't recall having ever heard that phrase before in my life.

Kid these days with all their fancy new lingo.

@devinb As far as I know, it's unique to me.

I just unilaterally decided that "what the balls" was passé.

passé

@devinb Thanks. I was too lazy to look up the accented character code.

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