OK, we've all seen the "Welcome back [USERNAME], you've been logged in. Click here to refresh the page." auto-login notification bar, and I understand why it works the way it does. And having the up- and downvote buttons work as anonymous user feedback for non-logged-in users is also a nice touc...
@Uni this might not be relevant anymore. Ilmari can you please try to reproduce this? I suspect that with the recent login changes, there is no such banner anymore. — Shadow Wizard33 secs ago
Please allow us to vote to timeout a room if the discussion starts degenerating or otherwise going off-topic. Unfortunately this is a mods only feature and mods aren't always around.
I think six votes in five minutes should be enough.
haha, when I put '-1' as amount of seconds and it doesn't do anything, I went to the developer tools of Firefox and found this as response to the request:
In an exchange between astronaut Dave Bowman and the HAL 9000 computer aboard the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL asserts that he cannot allow Dave Bowman to deactivate him because doing so would jeopardize their mission:
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, ...
When the room timeout feature returns an error (for example due to rate limiting, "You can perform this action again in 3 seconds"), you don't get a message that tells that there's an error. For other rate-limited actions (e.g. starring), it shows up the actual error in a notification bar at the ...
When a chat room is frozen or deleted, it means ordinary users can't post messages, and we see those rooms with a gray background in the rooms list.
However, currently there is no special background when a room is in timeout, but ordinary users still can't post. They find out only when entering ...