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Echoing what Tempest just said...

I'm on Windows 10 with Firefox and the chat entry box acts as if every word typed has @ in front of it for tagging users and has a habit of auto-correcting to those users instead of the words you were typing.

This problem does not exist on mobile.
 
I removed the broken @ tag hint from chat which fixes that problem.

Next update is being built. I've already added user privacy (hides you from the active user list) and ignores (hides messages from people you're ignoring). I'm adding desktop notifications for @ tag alerts.

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The timer on when it turns people from green (active) to yellow (inactive) should probably be longer.
 
Can you make it so images expand toward the top-right when you click on them? With the full screen version of the chat they go past the bottom of the page.
 
OwO What's This? said:
Can you make it so images expand toward the top-right when you click on them? With the full screen version of the chat they go past the bottom of the page.
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It's planned as a bugfix but right now I don't know what doing that entails.
 
Null said:
It's planned as a bugfix but right now I don't know what doing that entails.
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Try top: -100%; in CSS

Or, alternatively, you could make it come up as an overlay similar to what clicking on people's icons to bring up a profile summary does, but that's probably much more complicated.
 
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OwO What's This? said:
Try top: -100%; in CSS

Or, alternatively, you could make it come up as an overlay similar to what clicking on people's icons to bring up a profile summary does, but that's probably much more complicated.
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You don't need to tell me how to do my job.
 
Latest update:
  • Integrated user privacy to chat's active user list.
  • Integrated ignore functionality to chat.
  • Added the formatting for tabs.
  • Added the chat preferences page, found on chat itself under the cogs, and also at https://kiwifarms.net/account/chat-preferences
  • Added desktop notifications (which is currently the only chat preference).
To get notifications to work:
  1. Go to the preferences page.
  2. Enable both boxes.
  3. Refresh the page.
  4. You should get a balloon prompt asking you if you'd like to allow notifications. Allow them.
  5. Make sure you reload chat and you will now receive notifications from chat when you are tagged and do not have the window focused. If you did not receive a balloon prompt asking if you'd like to allow notifications, you may already have it enabled. Click the icon left of your URL (Chrome/FF) and see if you have enabled Notification permissions.
 
New desktop notifications are way better than the old ones. Thank you!
 
  • Desktop Notifications now automatically close when you close your tab.
  • Added whispers.
  • Desktop Notifications from whispers will specify if it's a whisper.
Syntax:
/whisper @Username Message

/whisper can also be /w for short.
You can click names and not worry about removing the comma and space.

i.e. alternate syntax:
/w @Null, Hello


And one last thing
  • If you receive a whisper, clicking the author's username of the whisper will automatically insert a reply text.
 
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Did we lose the user sidebar in chat? It's not showing up for me anymore.
 
After going to the settings page and enabling desktop notifications, the list of users on the right sidebar disappears.

How do I get the user list back?
 
Add the edit comment button back, I can't even correct my typos without double posting.
 
I removed the sidebar because it was very resource intensive with many concurrent users. I'll refactor it soon.
 
Really like the colored highlight for messages you're tagged in.
 
Love the new whisper feature that auto fills the command when you click the username in one sent now eliminating juicy whisper SNAFUs.
 
I'm focusing on improving existing code in non-noticeable ways.

Next update will bring back the user list, add an option for the user list, fix the constant "busy" icon on the config page, and probably add in edit / delete functionality. The back end was built to handle edit / delete by design, and if I manually edit the DB to add in edits or deletes, it handles it appropriately.
 
Anytime I have chat open in firefox it makes my entire browser run like garbage and the input lag when I type into the chat box is several seconds.

This is on my windows 8.1 laptop, works fine on my win 7 desktop.
 
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