The New Chatrooms

[The Web Rat]

Activated today the main chat area can be accessed by clicking the "Enter Chatroom" button on the shoutbox. Although the shoutbox has served us well on busy evenings it can be quite hard to keep up with the chat especially when there are numerous conversations.

The new chatrooms are feature packed, new rooms can be added for different topics, users can share files (upto 100mb) plus one2one private chats are also possible.

Currently the only link between the main emCache site and the chat rooms is that it recognises the same users, my intention is to develop the system further so it integrates with the shoutbox fully (the shoutbox will display the main chat but without the full features).

Here's a list of accepted commands

/away
Sets user as away. Typing this command again sets user as "here". This action may also slow down the chat ping time for the "away" user, depending on the setting of msgRequestIntervalAway, which is set in /inc/config.php

/here
Sets user as here. This reverses the "away" and "busy" states.

/busy
Sets user as busy. Typing this command again sets user as "here".

/back
Shows the last entries of the room's chat, including any chat text that was present before arrival to the room.

/backtime
Shows the last minutes of the room's chat, including any chat text that was present before arrival to the room.

/clear
Clears the chat screen. This only affects your screen, not the screen of other users.

/me <action>
Issues an IRC-like "action" to the chat. "/me" will be changed to your user name, and the text in <action> will appear as a system message. For example: "/me is thinking" would translate to "Joe is thinking".

/join <room>
Switches the user to <room>. For example: "/join The Lounge"

/part
Logout of the chat.

/quit
Logout of the chat.

/logout
Logout of the chat.

/invite <user>
Invites "user" to the room that you are currently in.

/ignore <user>
Ignores "user" until /unignore "user" is issued

/?
Display a list of currently available IRC commands.

/whois <user>
Same as /whowas, but the user must be logged in.

/motd
Displays the message of the day

/sos <message>
Alerts moderator in the current room of your message.

/names
Shows a list of all user names in all public rooms.

/showignores
Shows who you are ignoring, and who is ignoring you.

[The Web Rat]

I've been made aware of a small issue, when a user enters the chat rooms it seems they get logged out of the main site.

For some reason after a few logins the issue disappears so I suspect its probably down to updating [geek]cookies[/geek].

[JustAlan]

Just been in the 'Chat to Ernie' Room.

He's completely bonkers, but it's fun trying to confuse the AI engine  

[nick_h_nz]

I've been made aware of a small issue, when a user enters the chat rooms it seems they get logged out of the main site.

For some reason after a few logins the issue disappears so I suspect its probably down to updating [geek]cookies[/geek].

Still an issue for me!  How many times is "a few logins", so that I know when the issue will disappear?

I haven't been to visit Ernie since he was bashing the bible.  I must return and talk to him about God now, to see what he says....
(When I say now, I mean later....)