@Benjol It would though be awesome if there was an API for these chat-rooms, then I could use TweetDeck/MetroTwit or build my own rich chat client. I'm a believer in: If it's not pushed to your computer, you ain't gonna notice it or even realize what you've missed
@Benjol That gotta be a revolution ;-) - Ain't nothing new on this chat, but what is awesome is the brand of stackoverflow and the community of people here, combining that with more real-time dialogs is a killer-feature
Seeing a display problem in users page: http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/users If the name of the room wraps, it gets lost under the bottom of the box
Is there any way to make the editing inline? It's weird that it highlights both the editable section and the non-editable original message in exactly the same way.
But I definitely like chat. I do think however when going live on the real sites the rep requirement should be higher. Otherwise all hell is going to break loose.
balpha I heard that the feed has been removed from SU room to avoid user inactivity, what about adding a setting to the room to make the feed user hidden by default ?
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...