ecv Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Hi, Why was the chat room removed? A few people hang out in there, and while there's the occasional coding question, we mostly use it to socialize, which doesn't subtract much value at all from the forum but adds some to our lives. Is it a permanent deletion? quiphop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaitek666 Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Miss it too.. Where am I going to say Good Morning to everyone now?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattstyles Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Sounds like a question for @rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3ddy Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 chat [*][*][*] @rich it would be awesome to have the chat rewritten, because it was randomly kicking ppl from time to time, also there were some troubles with users list in chat, but we miss that place, even with those bugs ecv 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiphop Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Would be cool if chat will be improved Actually, it totally sucks at current version ecv 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 It was a feature provided by IPB (the forum software we use). The upgrade to the latest IPB release yesterday disabled the Chat room. I was going to bring it back today, however, all hell broke lose with the DDoS attack, and now we're having to move to another host and it doesn't include Chat support I'm sorry to say. I will ask them if they offer it as an add-on, but I suspect not. kaitek666 and ecv 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecv Posted May 5, 2017 Author Share Posted May 5, 2017 (edited) Well, your post answers both questions very well: Thank you, rich. Sorry for what you're going through and strength to you. AFAICR I'm not one of those who ever got in a fight with TV, but I'm certainly neither going to miss him. May I suggest to register and include a reference to an official IRC channel, maybe on freenode, in the future when things settle down and you have some spare time? Maybe even a link to an external web client such as http://kiwiirc.com, so it won't disturb the traffic here nor pose a new risk. The downside would be identity theft or mismatch from the forum, but oh well, you can't have everything. Thank you if so, and again best luck! Edited May 5, 2017 by ecv bad url text Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecv Posted May 5, 2017 Author Share Posted May 5, 2017 44 minutes ago, ecv said: [...] May I suggest to register and include a reference to an official IRC channel, maybe on freenode, in the future when things settle down and you have some spare time? Maybe even a link to an external web client such as http://kiwiirc.com, so it won't disturb the traffic here nor pose a new risk. [...] Well, surprise, surprise! As it is, there happens to already exist such channel. I found out while trying kiwi IRC url parameters, and here's the link: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/html5gamedevs I don't know if this is official, though. Edit: it's claimed to be official, but a confimation would help. I guess after all this will be the way... quiphop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daikrys Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 I just want to throw in Discord as it allows to create a server for free and fits most needs. Personally i use it quite alot as text chat and also as alternativ solution to Skype/TS3. It works well and im pretty happy so far. The down thing is that you cant host your server yourself which makes it third party dependent, but in return you dont have to pay for and can customize your servers to fit your needs. Another plus is that it runs on Win, Mac, Linux, Android, IOs and got a Browser solution too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 Just to say that we're moving to a new server, which means we can install our own IPB package - so I'm hopeful it means we can get Chat running again. Keep an eye out! quiphop and ecv 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesh108 Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 It might be stupid but why aren't we using IRC? There is http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=html5gamedevs up and running, let's just move to the good old IRC. EDIT: Ops, @ecv already suggested that. And yeah, @Daikrys's idea to use Discord is also quite nice ecv 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgk Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Or just jump on slack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecv Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share Posted May 12, 2017 8 minutes ago, rgk said: Or just jump on slack! slack? LOL if that isn't a GREAT avatar, IDK what is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgk Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 18 minutes ago, ecv said: slack? LOL if that isn't a GREAT avatar, IDK what is! https://phaser.io/community/slack and its very active, more active then the forum chat by far. Obviously just for phaser tough. And Day of the Tentacle will always be one of my favorite games, so many memories. I have replayed it numerous times with ScummVM and now I want to play it again! ecv 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecv Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share Posted May 12, 2017 3 minutes ago, rgk said: https://phaser.io/community/slack and its very active, more active then the forum chat by far. Obviously just for phaser tough. And Day of the Tentacle will always been one of my favorite games, so many memories. I have replayed it numerous times with ScummVM and now I want to play it again! Yeah, ScummVM is great and so is DOTT. I love other adventures too, but that one with the time thing and multiple character impersonation was really something! And that little cone screenshot when he goes he'll take over the world, both terrifying and funny LOL Yeah I wish I could play it soon too, I had so many others I want to play too but I just have no time, tsk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattstyles Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I check IRC fairly often, but never seen any action yet. Nesh108 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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