I really dislike the way my picture "floats in" to the list of avatars. But it survived since the last time I saw the chat so I guess I'm alone on that one, haha. Maybe you could put a small, unobtrusive icon in the corner of the avatars for the room owner, and moderators? Also a special one, just for me. It can be a picture of a top hat.
I donno... Pretty sure they used to indicate that a period of time had passed between comments, but obviously they now show up for other, seemingly-arbitrary reasons
right above the last post that I made, which also happened to be the last post I read. I'll go elsewhere after some more is said, then come back and see where the line went.
uh oh, nobody is saying anything, and I'm stuck here
If these were just chat rooms, that may not be as important a use case. But, the point of these rooms is to supplement the SE sites. So, you've gotta expect a fair amount of copying to happen.
I bet. I would rather just use a mouse. I should get one of those travel mice. Not that I'm travelling, my monitor, mouse, and keyboard are just in the other room.
Beside inadvertently moving the cursor with a trackpad, I don't like their position below the keyboard. That's probably my biggest complaint. Just like the nipple, you can get used to the motion on the trackpad with use.
I do like the scrolling support in trackpads these days.
true, I hate moving the mouse with my palm. Especially to the taskbar in windows 7, and having little pictures of my windows pop up obscuring whatever I'm doing. And the scrolling is nice but that area of my trackpad isn't marked visually or with a grove, so I never know if I'm using it right.
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of doing something w/ the room name. Afterall, that is where the reply is located, so that makes sense from that perspective.
yeah but the current room you are in isn't shown in that little list, it's just a big heading and I can't see something really being done with that heading
The problem with text selection and reply-triggering is actually fairly limited: your cursor must be within the message when you press the mouse button, and still within it when you release. I suspect an additional check for non-empty selection would be trivial.
@shog9 When replying, you get this string of number that represent your user id. When you post it the Javascript takes a second to change the number to the actual name
I have a web application that's branded according to the user that's currently logged in. I'd like to change the favicon of the page to be the logo of the private label, but I'm unable to find any code or any examples of how to do this. Has anybody successfully done this before?
I'm picturing ha...
There's been a lot of awful posts lately that have exactly 1 upvote; I don't know if it's the same person serially upvoting all the lowest voted posts or what
@Shog9 Well, I generally consider it bad practice to reward the worst question askers with reputation; if they get Null's one random upvote and 4 downvotes they still come out positive, with motivation to ask an even worse question next time
@nulluserexception FWIW, I down-voted that example question because it is lacking necessary information - a fact which the author was informed of shortly after posting, but has failed to respond to.
I thought the eventual purpose was for meta-discussions about a given question; that's why you can prefix chat. to a question URL to get a question room automatically
"This site is an extension of Meta Stack Overflow, so discussion should more or less revolve around the same topics you'd find at Meta Stack Overflow" I suppose the same would be true if a StackOverflow version was created
Maybe this is a duplicate of another question, it's certainly something which I've seen discussed in a few chat rooms, but I thought it would be interesting/useful to have reactions in one place.
How do you see yourself using chat, longterm? (once you've finished messing around with dancing gifs...
I'm not sure that they come in and re-read the whole transcript, and so far, starring isn't working great as a way of calling out the main points of discussion (see #1 starred item now...)
@JeffAtwood, Occationally if I close the browser/tab it does say that I am just "away" so @username mentions should somewhat be possible to track in the future.
I.e if you are in c# which is "attached" to stackoverflow, the stackoverflow user should be possible to see his mentions on his profile. Just a suggestion though.. :)
@jeffatwood @JeffAtwood, got your comment, I must admit I'd seen the 'highlights' button but not got round to trying it, it's not bad - in fact I think it's more useful than the starred list...
a) regular anyone anytime rooms require 100 rep to create and b) "gallery" rooms where anyone may listen but only allowed users may talk which require 1000 rep to create
public-by-default is always the rule here, even the "gallery" rooms are public to READ but not talk in
1000 rep on the parent site, which in this case, is meta
"get a room" would just create a standard room. Why would the conversation need to be private? It just needs to be in a slightly different area since it's becoming off-topic or too involved/distracting for this room
it's like you're at a party. if two guys start getting into this intense debate about something, why should the entire room suffer? those two need to "get a room" and continue it elsewhere
really, everything here is party host management. Not everyone should be allowed to stay in the same room all the time (aka "kitchen syndrome") and people should migrate freely between rooms to see what is going on
"this is the room where we listen to music.." "this is the room where we talk about politics.." "this is the room where everyone is dancing.."
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It occurs to me that Chat would be a fine place to get to know your fellow SE users a bit more, by enabling the eXchange of... thoughts and ideas.
But this presents a problem: users are scattered across the globe, with wildly va...
header('Location: '. $url, TRUE, $http_response_code);
Sometimes the above takes several seconds, is it possible to speed it up?
