tomas
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Post by tomas on Mar 23, 2016 14:50:58 GMT -8
Folks, about 5 years ago we used to have a Friday night chat in a chatroom that somebody had crated. Does anybody remember what the service was and/or how to recreate such a thing?
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Woodsie
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Post by Woodsie on Mar 23, 2016 15:05:03 GMT -8
It might have been Cloudwalker who started that...
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bp2go
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Post by bp2go on Mar 23, 2016 15:16:54 GMT -8
I almost hate to mention that this forum has an option to turn on a ShoutBox! Isn't that an inviting name? It is a live chat section that would appear at the bottom of the Home page, and members can carry on as need be. The problem (from my end) is that I don't want it always just there, so I have to turn it on and off. I have done this on the garden forum and the members there used it several times and then tired of it You can see one in action on this forum: notjusttomatoes.proboards.comNote that the link is to a forum I only watch, it is not the garden forum I referred to. I can turn it on here to see if it gains favor. Stand by, I have to go down in the engine room and re-discover what switches to throw.
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zeke
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Post by zeke on Mar 23, 2016 15:43:32 GMT -8
We have occasionally opened something on another site for Chat, and opened it up for those here. Those Friday nights were how I met several posters here, including my current kayaking bud, Roger. My memory is they started about 2005, or earlier, as they were operating before '07.
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Mar 23, 2016 15:48:21 GMT -8
Stand by, I have to go down in the engine room and re-discover what switches to throw. Careful. No need to trim the ballast.
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bp2go
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Post by bp2go on Mar 23, 2016 16:19:38 GMT -8
tomas It's there*, it works, it's ugly as hell, but you can chat till you drop! Do you want it there on weekends only? Every day? I'll have to turn it on and off when you set a schedule. *EDIT to add, it's at the VERY BOTTOM of the page. Like a half-inch below the last of the Stats area. It's huge, but you might not scroll down far enough if you stop at the forum stats. Tap in yur message at the bottom of the space, then hit the SEND button. Your text will appear in the list a few seconds later.
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zeke
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Post by zeke on Mar 23, 2016 17:05:36 GMT -8
I got nothing between stats and Bp'er subscription stuff. Below BP'er, I have ToS, Privacy, Notice, etc...
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cajun
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Post by cajun on Mar 23, 2016 17:45:56 GMT -8
Wow, BP chat!! Those were the days ......
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amaruq
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Post by amaruq on Mar 24, 2016 4:47:55 GMT -8
It must be almost 13-14 years since I was last in a chat room...
Note that I have no chat window at the bottom of any page.
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bp2go
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Post by bp2go on Mar 24, 2016 5:13:25 GMT -8
BREAKING NEWS: You have to be using the BP-Spring theme!
I have to change an obscure line of code in each theme? No way! I have it showing in the Spring theme. The other themes should just be turned off since there are no more than 20 at the most using any of them. One only has three users. I'm not willing to run through the steps to turn on/turn off this feature in each of the themes.
If you love yourr oddball theme, stay with it, but switch to BP_Spring when it's time to chat.
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amaruq
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Post by amaruq on Mar 24, 2016 6:30:36 GMT -8
Ugh! Making the end user do all the work!
:-P
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zeke
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Post by zeke on Mar 24, 2016 9:07:28 GMT -8
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bp2go
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Post by bp2go on Mar 24, 2016 14:08:47 GMT -8
No sign up, pick a nickname and chat away. Why is this better than the very same thing here? Seriously. Zeke was not using the right theme (BP_Spring) but way at the bottom of that theme, there is the chat area. I doesn't go away, it accumulates. I tried to make sure people have choices in theme color and photo, I didn't know that putting the Shoutbox into action was theme-specific, and I don't want to futz with several pages to make changes over and over! I can easily HIDE the chat area and reveal it for weekends, but since I want to do what you the members want, if it needs to be always visible, that's okay with me. If Chatzy is somehow better, that's fine too.
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bp2go
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Post by bp2go on Mar 24, 2016 14:26:05 GMT -8
Realtime chat with anyone you want Have you seen the chat box here? Of course it's a group chat, nothing private about it. I initially set up five themes, finally deleting one that only had two users. The BP_Spring is the most used theme, and the others are only used by no more than 20, as few as eight. I would like to reduce the themes to two, and make one with a chat box, the other exactly the same but without the chat. Then people could switch back and forth. But maybe it seems hard to change themes? There is a button on the bottom-right to swith, or open you Profile and change it there. See info in the How To section.
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bp2go
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Post by bp2go on Mar 25, 2016 9:03:12 GMT -8
UPDATE: Now that I see how vital the Shoutbox can be to the forum, I have changed the codes on all themes to make sure it is available to all, no theme switching needed. It's at the very bottom of every page in every section. Have fun.
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