Topic: Chat with Chatango

[DAaaMan64]

NWRers are having a hard time setting up matches for games. I think we can make this better with a  superior chat vehicles.

This is what I propose, a new chat protocol.  Remember every new feature that actually works well, loads fast, you don't have to host it, and it can make this forum more popular and the site over all.

This is called Chatango.  They are chat rooms that can be embedded into a page.  They load quick and don't have to take up a lot of room.


Look at this example, you see a normal forum, with the chat embedded at the bottom:

http://www.animerumor.com/forums/

It works great.  I think we should implement it. And NWR doesn't have to host it. Plus it's free.  Here, I made one:

http://nintendoworldreport.chatango.com/

Here is the code to embed it into the website.

<object width="800" height="290" id="obj_1221172058521"><param name="movie" value="http://nintendoworldreport.chatango.com/group"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="AllowScriptAccess" VALUE="always"/><param name="AllowNetworking" VALUE="all"/><param name="AllowFullScreen" VALUE="true"/><param name="flashvars" value="cid=1221172058521&a=0099FF&b=51&c=FFFFFF&d=FFFFFF&g=333333&j=333333&k=0099FF&l=0099FF&s=1"/><embed id="emb_1221172058521" src="http://nintendoworldreport.chatango.com/group" width="800" height="290" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="cid=1221172058521&a=0099FF&b=51&c=FFFFFF&d=FFFFFF&g=333333&j=333333&k=0099FF&l=0099FF&s=1"></embed></object>
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I'll be in the chat room. But if you wanna make one for NWR forums, go to chatango.com  I know a few matches were already made, I'd like to see more.

Thanks

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

like hell you're in the chat

[DAaaMan64]

I was yesterday for like 4 hours.

They need to embed it. It'll be way better, because your obligated to be in the chat.

[ShyGuy]

I like this idea.

[DAaaMan64]

Ya I think it would be really cool. I mean, lets say you  are surfing the site, if you've signed up with chatango, it will remember who you are. And say you are just surfing the forums, and someone in the chat you notice keeps saying they wanna brawl. Well you had no intention of brawling, but the chat made you curious.

[DAaaMan64]

Mafia could also be wayy more badass with this.

[vudu]

Wandering already tried that a couple times.

As you can see, it didn't work out so well.

[DAaaMan64]

Wandering already tried that a couple times.

As you can see, it didn't work out so well.

He tried it with mafia. Not the whole site, plus it would still better because the chat box literally EMBEDDED into the forums.

[vudu]

Mafia could also be wayy more badass with this.

I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about using Chatango for Mafia.  I must have been mistaken.

[DAaaMan64]

it's coo

[Caliban]

l

[DAaaMan64]

io

[Plugabugz]

I endorse this idea with the camels.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I should be chatangomango-exclusive given how broken the Core layout is.

[DAaaMan64]

Can I get a staff member to evaluate my proposal? :p

[NWR_Lindy]

I think this is a good idea, but I don't have stroke around here to put it in place.  I'll bring it up at our next staff meeting, however.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Chatango will be great with all the real-time HAWTNESS we can deploy onto it.

[Pale]

Does chatango require a registration or can you dive right in too?

[Pale]

Just tried it out, no pressing enter to send a message is pretty lame.... hmm.

[vudu]

Just tried it out, no pressing enter to send a message is pretty lame.... hmm.

Funny enough, pressing enter did send the message on the first day.  Daaaman must have changed the settings of the room since then (without realizing it).

[DAaaMan64]

Just tried it out, no pressing enter to send a message is pretty lame.... hmm.

Funny enough, pressing enter did send the message on the first day.  Daaaman must have changed the settings of the room since then (without realizing it).

You actually have to register or something I think. I don't have that problem. Pro, do you still experience this?

Pale, do you think it will work?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I experienced it as of yesterday (SeaMonkey/Mozilla browser).

Another issue is once a temp user creates a name, it's only good for that session, and is permanently inaccessible afterwards.

[vudu]

I'm in the chat room right now, and enter sends the messages just fine for me.  It's like the site can't make up its mind.

[UltimatePartyBear]

Well, it seems to work fine for me.  I'm not so sure it's that great an idea.  It'll either be mostly dead all the time or cannibalize General Chat and the Funhouse.

Besides, vudu will never use it because he can't fix his typos.

[DAaaMan64]

Well, it seems to work fine for me.  I'm not so sure it's that great an idea.  It'll either be mostly dead all the time or cannibalize General Chat and the Funhouse.

Besides, vudu will never use it because he can't fix his typos.

Even under your circumstance, that's still more activity then the old room.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Enter doesn't work.

[DAaaMan64]

Enter doesn't work.

works for me. :/ wtf is with this.

Can I just get a staff member to look at this?

[NWR_Lindy]

I checked it out.  Pretty cool.  So, enter is supposed to work?  It looks like mine was in some sort of larger editing mode, in which Enter was just a carriage return instead of a Send.

[DAaaMan64]

I checked it out.  Pretty cool.  So, enter is supposed to work?  It looks like mine was in some sort of larger editing mode, in which Enter was just a carriage return instead of a Send.

Ya that could certainly be possible.

Enter does work though, *sometimes*

So aaron, could you look at this?

[DAaaMan64]

So any staff wanna look at this? I mean I notice you removed our post count from the left, and from our profile, but if we could have this, that'd be sweet.

[NWR_Lindy]

We'll have to look at this and see how it fits in with other changes we plan on making to the site.  Instituting something like this requires a bunch of us to sit down in a virtual room - filled with internet magic - and look at it from all angles, and that hasn't happened yet.

[RABicle]

Learn to IRC noobs.

[DAaaMan64]

Learn to IRC noobs.

No thanks, I only IRC regularly when it works. and this doesn't require java. n00b

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I now realize why Chatango exists.

I can't use any other messaging client at work.

HIT UP THE CHATANGO.  HELP ME BE UNPRODUCTIVE.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

AHHHH forget it.  Everything's blocked save for foruming.

I'm in the dark.

[EasyCure]

I now realize why Chatango exists.

I can't use any other messaging client at work.

HIT UP THE CHATANGO.  HELP ME BE UNPRODUCTIVE.

damn i woulda hit that up.

[MegaByte]

There, I replaced the Java chat with a CGI chat.  It still goes to the same IRC room.  I also added a link to it in the forum news box.  Tell me what you think.

[vudu]

It's an improvement!  Unfortunately, it's still dead in there (unless you're a hot chick).

I think DaaAAaAAAaAaHhAAaAaMan really wanted a chat at the bottom of the main forums page that you automatically logged into when you visited the forums. 

[DAaaMan64]

Well look a little progress is still progress. But that is what I want, check out the links I posted, they should examples of what would be perfect. And you'll see the performance is fine too.  And you don't have to host the app.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Apparently the chat works until the State of California eventually blocks it!

hooray!

[MegaByte]

And you don't have to host the app.

And that is exactly what I don't want.

[DAaaMan64]

tsk tsk tsk