Prochat Revamp Suggestion

[Velocity]

Re: Prochat Revamp Suggestion

On this other site I go to, the chat is powered by something called Ajax. How it differs from, say, IRC or whatever we have now, are in three major areas:

As said, Ajax is more of a javascript extensions to allow loading and sending of data async to page viewing. For things like chat, it puts an increased strain on the server because of constant polling of the server to check for new messages, even if there isn't any. This also means it's not 'real-time', because it really isn't.

1. A message isn't sent to anyone until it can be sent to everyone. That way, if you're lagging, your messages aren't pinged back to you, and thus you know there's an issue.

This is how the current system handles it anyway.

2. There's an ignore function ( /ignore username and type again to repeal) that allows users to block messages from a chosen user from showing up on their screen. This could come in quite handy for the people like Novacaine and Jonathan123Ply84 that only come on to rustle people's jimmies.

It can be added quite easily if I had time.

3. Full BBCode support for all users. Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, quotes (with attribution!), link embedding, and so on.

BBCode is already supposrted in prochat, just not for normal users. If you want to use it, use it on a bulletin board like the forum.

(There's also no automatic idle-kick, but that's a minor thing)

This is comething we added.

Now I'm pretty sure that that would be something that Jon would have to take care of and his plate's already full, but if he's got the chops, I say go for it. To be honest, some people make ignoring them the old-fashioned way quite difficult.

Also, there's no one else who could code it to begin with. I'm in college now, along with Zag. No one else has any experience in using the SmartFox server code.

[Izzy]

Re: Prochat Revamp Suggestion

2. There's an ignore function ( /ignore username and type again to repeal) that allows users to block messages from a chosen user from showing up on their screen. This could come in quite handy for the people like Novacaine and Jonathan123Ply84 that only come on to rustle people's jimmies.

I would love to see this. Possibly just have it extend the ignore list from the forums to make it more convenient to have people blocked that just post crap everywhere on the site.