DailyDi Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Sometime this week - Probably Wednesday we will begin a "forced" beta of a new chat room platform (Babble, which you can access now from the tab on the menu bar. or at http://www.dailydiapers.com/board/index.php?/babble/) What is a Forced Beta? We will be closing the current chat room during this beta test so that all users will take part in testing the new chat room. Why are we doing this? We have been notified that the developer of this forum package (Invision) will be discontinuing the chat service in early 2017. As they host the chat server that means we WILL lose the chat room completely and will need to find a new chat provider. They recommended a service (CometChat) but after talking to them and testing them we have found them not to be a good fit for us. A second provider was briefly tested last week, but they too failed to meet our needs. This third trial we have high hopes for as several members of the admin team have played with it and feel it's the best one we have seen yet, so we want to open it up to the membership for comments and a real-world test. How can I help? Simple, use the new room (http://www.dailydiapers.com/board/index.php?/babble/) and tell us what you think? This helps us get feedback on user experience on different computers and devices. Our only ask is that you feedback be on the new service, or alternatives you are aware of. "I like the old chat room better" is not helpful since that will not be an option for us. 2 Link to comment
lilJester Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 like it says in the back of the guide, DON'T PANIC. There will still be a chat, and from what I saw of babble, it's whatI've been harping on about for a long long time lol. Link to comment
DailyDi Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 Chat Room test has begun. Chat here: http://www.dailydiapers.com/board/index.php?/babble/ Link to comment
DailyDi Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 The room and user count issue is a known bug and will be fixed in version3 of the software due in a week or two. Link to comment
Dr_J Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 It's really not that different from the chat we have....just takes a little bit of time to load up all the users on the right hand side. Even cooler, is when you PM someone, if you're not in that tab, it will actually blink!!! Link to comment
Elfy Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I know the user list is bugged at the moment and hopefully it gets fixed soon because it is very hard to know who is in the room with you. There doesn't seem to be any messages for when people enter or leave chat which is a shame (also, having tested it, there is no public alert for being kicked!) EDIT: Even as I was typing this message I found in the settings an option to tick that shows when people enter or leave so that fixes that I think, a way to mute the entering sound would be nice though! There is a delay between sending messages and them appearing in chat... Only a second or two but when there are 20+ people in chat it might be a small problem. In terms of positives... I like avatars appearing next to names, I like that the "/me" command bolds messages, I like that when you get a new message in a tab you aren't in it will flash at the top of the chat to let you know, I like the "@[name]" command makes a message show up in red to that person, I like the multiple room idea with the separate RP room but it is too early to say how that will turn out. There's a lot of new stuff... If the user list gets fixed then it will be a great chat in my opinion. Link to comment
peedpants Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 A message came up "chat is not connected to node server contact admin, so I am. Link to comment
froggy Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 There seems to be no leave chat button. Link to comment
Little BabyDoll Christine Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 What I just did was opened the Babble link in a new window. left a message then just closed the window. Someone wh is familiar with tabbed browsing might try using a new tab, but at least that's a temporary fix Link to comment
Elfy Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 You can just close the tab chat is in on just go to a different website and it will leave you from chat. You don't have to specifically click a "Leave Chat" button to leave. Link to comment
Little BabyDoll Christine Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I could go for this under the right circumstances. Link to comment
Elfy Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 A problem might be the limited amount of messages that show up in chat at one time. At the moment only four messages show on the screen before you have to scroll up to find more. In a chat room with a lot of people talking that might become an issue. I certainly hope they can sort out the user list sooner rather than later because it is really hard to tell when someone joins the room or was already in the room, I noticed tonight that it doesn't always update when someone leaves either. Link to comment
DailyDi Posted December 8, 2016 Author Share Posted December 8, 2016 53 minutes ago, Elfy said: A problem might be the limited amount of messages that show up in chat at one time. At the moment only four messages show on the screen before you have to scroll up to find more. In a chat room with a lot of people talking that might become an issue. I certainly hope they can sort out the user list sooner rather than later because it is really hard to tell when someone joins the room or was already in the room, I noticed tonight that it doesn't always update when someone leaves either. Check now. Little better? Widened the username column to make long names stop pushing it to a second or third row Edit: Removed avatars, so just names are shown, raised the room to 9 lines Link to comment
Elfy Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Yeah, looks better with usernames all on one line. Probably wouldn't be able to make more messages appear without stretching the whole thing. 1 Link to comment
PetahPetah Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 i come in, and it says 2 people in, lists 3, and there are more posting NOT LISTED. Link to comment
eatenbywo1ves Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Pretty much the summary of yesterday's Link to comment
Abi Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Features that I've noticed and not liked:- room - if you clicked to see someone's profile it opened a new tab, so you could keep the chat room open at the same time. Here it takes you out of the chat room to see the profile. Any chance of a reversion to getting a new tab? Every so often without warning or explanation it logs you out. The first you know is you try to post something and it doesn't send. But it takes you a while to realize that cos sometimes there's a time lag anyway. So you go through all the faff of logging back in ... and when you get back in you've lost all your whispered conversations and cannot retrieve them. Similarly, if you switch from one chat room to the other, when you come back you've lost all your whispered conversations Link to comment
DailyDi Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 In the next update the rooms will be in tabs so you can follow more than one at once. The logout timer is set to 1 hour. If you don't do anything for an hour you get kicked... If you are getting kicked while active that is an issue! Links should now open a new window Link to comment
dmavn Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Big improvement from being kicked every time I switch apps on my iPad. Only thing I have noticed is that I just can't tap the tabs on the top of the site to get in to activity/babble/leaderboard etc. I have to hold the link and tell it to open. Link to comment
smarti Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Slowly getting used to this. Let's hope all the new features make it worthwhile. Link to comment
DailyDi Posted December 13, 2016 Author Share Posted December 13, 2016 user list issues are known and will be fixed in 2 weeks. Whisper issue I will ask about. I know the next version has a button to leave a whisper instead of just closing it, and the new version also has online/offline notifiers next to users Link to comment
UndieNites Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Hey, figured I'd post to let you know I got this message when checking out the roleplay chat room just recently: "Babble is not connected to the node server, please contact the administrator!" First time I've seen it, so not sure if this is a known issue or not. ~UndieNites Link to comment
DailyDi Posted December 13, 2016 Author Share Posted December 13, 2016 He must have been restarting the server, seems to fine today Link to comment
Abi Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Di - yes, I WAS getting kicked while active! Link to comment
linteum Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 softwareis not runing good i think Link to comment
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