New Chat

[DeadZero]

I was thinking, maybe The Hive should have one of those chat things that are on the main page or on every page too, like SITES THAT EXIST IN PLACES. What do you think?

 

[Crimson-Guard]

I was thinking, maybe The Hive should have one of those chat things that are on the main page or on every page too, like this on SITES THAT EXIST IN PLACES. What do you think?

u mean a chat box ??

 

[DeadZero]

Yes, I do.

 

[Crimson-Guard]

in the first place , where do u suggest to put it at ??it looks to me that the page is kinda space less now ...

 

[DeadZero]

I said "Main page". Which has a lot of room, and if you wanted it on every page you could just use that big empty space in the bottom or extend the page down a bit.

 

[Crimson-Guard]

I said "Main page". Which has a lot of room, and if you wanted it on every page you could just use that big empty space in the bottom or extend the page down a bit.

op didnt see the main page ... and yeah ... good idea to extend the page longer...

 

[DeadZero]

Thanks
So would you go with the idea of it?

 

[Crimson-Guard]

ofc i do ^^

 

[General_Anon]

I like the idea of a single fucking chat room. Makes it easier, less of a clutter. The main page idea was good, but would fucking fail with some of the work Ralle does.
BTW, I believe linking to SITES THAT EXIST IN PLACES violates the rules. Just a heads up.

 

[DeadZero]

Oh, well sorry about that, I was just trying to give an example. So if I was breaking the rules, then sorry, just an example, had nothing to do with the website itself except that it had a chat box thing.

 

[Hakeem]

I dunno... It definitely works for some places, but I'm not sure if it would work here.


(And yes don't link SITES THAT EXIST IN PLACES.)

 

[DeadZero]

So I can link sites that don't exist in places? What?

 

[Crimson-Guard]

I dunno... It definitely works for some places, but I'm not sure if it would work here.


(And yes don't link SITES THAT EXIST IN PLACES.)

wad on earth do u mean by sites that exist in places ?

 

[Grey Nightmare]

It'd use a lot of - not sure (is it bandwidth?) - as it would be refreshing the messages for... what 1000 people? At some times of the day. It's just impractical on such a large site. =/
(Not to mention if 1,000 people had easy access and all fancied a chat... you'd have to make sure it had rooms).
Good idea though, I can see your point of view

 

[DeadZero]

Not all types of chats are refresh, you know. You could make it a lot faster and less eating, just would cost more

 

[Grey Nightmare]

I'm assuming Ralle doesn't want to fork out $2-$4k on a chat (yes that is how much "professional" standard VBulletin chats can go up to). =/
Not to mention, most "chat boxes" do use refresh. Chat rooms and boxes are completely different and since we already have a custom coded chat... No way would he pay for another? That's my thinking

 

[DeadZero]

Well it was basically just an idea and I thought it was clear I wasn't meaning that it should actually happen and that Ralle would do it or anything, but okay...

 

[Dentothor]

yeah the chat we have is just fine. Why on earth would we need another? what, because people are too lazy to see the chat button and click it? 0.o Its not logical whatsoever.

 

[thelifelessone]

Not all types of chats are refresh

It's called sending an Ajax request.
Also, implementing IRC would be much better than using something hosted here (since it takes the load off the server)
Plenty of free hosts (not that any of them make you pay) around (freenode, mibbit, msgplus, etc). Register a channel with any of them, and then embed a client into the website (Note: freenode does not work with the Mibbit client. Just a heads up).

 

[Deaod]

Not to mention that using IRC would allow me to close FireFox when i just want to be in a chatroom.

 

[aaron]

2 reasons why this will never happen...


1. all the usuall 1000 users online will be in the chat making all at one time.
2. it will make the page load slower.

soo no its not gonna happen

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Well the main thing is that we get enough AFK people in chat as it is.
No need to mandate it.
Also it's really not that hard to have chat up in a tab and just switch between them.

 

[thelifelessone]

No, it isn't, but sometimes you'd like to be able to close the browser, and yet still stay in chat.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

That's a separate chat program, not having chat on every page
And I believe someone is working on one (there was one for the old chat)

 

[thelifelessone]

Still, IRC would be much better than what you've got now.

Each time the current chat refreshes, it sends and receives an Ajax request. Having as many people as there are in the server, that can put a minor load on the server.
Using IRC would allow those resources to be allocated for the forums, allowing them to (hopefully) become more responsive, and load faster.

 

[Dentothor]

IRC is bad. compared to what we have right now, its absolute failure.

and:

2 reasons why this will never happen...


1. all the usuall 1000 users online will be in the chat making all at one time.
2. it will make the page load slower.

soo no its not gonna happen

This.