Questions tagged [chat]
For questions about the real time, stateful web chat.
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How do I add a feed for a tag in a chat room?
If I want, say, all [lord-of-the-rings] posts to go to my chat room, what do I do in the add feed bit? What URL do I paste there?
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What's this "Chat with an expert" popup thing?
I got a couple of mini popups asking if I want to "Chat with an expert" (once on SFF, twice on Politics).
Is this some new functionality of SE sites? Or a trojan I picked up somewhere?
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Why is the name of main chat room "Mos Eisley"?
The most active chat room of SciFi.SE is Mos Eisley which has a tagline General discussion for http://scifi.stackexchange.com. Googling the words returns that Mos Eisley is a spaceport on the planet ...
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I keep getting an error when I try to log into chat?
Since my browser doesn't allow for third-party cookies (which is a deliberate choice) I have to try to log into chat via StackExchange.com -- however, repeated attempts simply yield a blank page (no ...
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There seems to be a problem with meta.SFF.SE posts not feeding into SFF chat
This was reported by @Slytherincess on chat, and I don't think I recall recent meta posts appearing either.
Regular SFF questions appear, but with sometimes long delay,
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Inappropriate content? Seriously?
With the profanity discussion going on, I posted an xkcd strip in chat which was even starred! The system decided this was inappropriate and answered:
your account has been automatically suspended ...
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Why do we pick the Topic of the Fortnight in chat rather than on meta?
We could just open another question for every topic and have people make suggestions in the form of answers (which can easily be voted up and down). Instead we use the starring system of the chat. ...
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We now have a Chat Room to discus the Topic of the Fortnight!
Here is where you can join in the discussion. Let me know your thoughts on the chat!
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When you're mentioned in a chat room, it should ping the tab
Steps to recreate:
Enter 2 chat rooms.
Leave one of them.
Have someone @you in the room you left in step 2.
A banner appears indicating that you've been mentioned in the room you left in step 2.
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Question feeds into chat
See this example. A few days ago the formatting for the question feeds into chat were broken. They were posting, but the layout was missing the avatar, vote count, etc. just like that linked example ...
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Chat background changed today
Earlier today, the background in chat changed. At least it did for a large band on the bottom of the chat box:
As you can see, this makes reading the text extremely difficult. The chat transcript ...
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'User joined chat' fly-in is colored white
When a user joins a chat room, their avatar and username fly down from the top of the screen to join the rest of the users in the sidebar. In our shiny new dark-styled chatroom, this fly-in box is ...
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What feeds do we want in the chat room?
In the site's main chat room, there are bots posting all new questions from the main site and the meta site.
Are the chat regulars happy with these bots, or would you prefer them to be removed? (No, ...
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Do we like the name of our chatroom?
Our main chatroom is called Mos Eisley. The decision was taken following a poll here on Meta. At the time, two proposals were tied for winner: Mos Eisley and The Ansible. See the chat transcript from ...
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One Box body text is invisible
In chat the body text is now white, but the One Box background is also white, yielding the below:
The box text is invisible, but if you try to select it you can see it's still there, it's just white-...
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Post times cut off when posting One Box content in chat
The post time background is cut off by the One Box content when posting questions/answers and maybe more.
You can see the cut off in the top right corner. It's supposed to look like this:
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What are the rules for when chat messages appear in a user's inbox?
On November the 2nd, a chat message was addressed to me:
@TonyMeyer - You have any ideas for articles you need written? I was going to review a book, but I likely won't finish it for another week ...
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Is the recommendation chat still alive?
For the past couple of months, I have been in the recommendation chat and it literally is dead for the couple hours that the event is live.
Should this still be going around? Is it a bust?
Should we ...
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What should we call our chatroom?
Our general discussion chat room is called “Science Fiction & Fantasy”. That's kind of boring. How about a better name?
Aside: we also have an SF topic of the day chatroom, where we propose a ...
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What kind of events we can have in chat?
Right now, the only periodic event we have in chat is a "recommendation chat", and there are no non-periodic events. Keeping in mind that we want the chat to (among other things) have discussions that ...
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Add support for the spoiler markup to chat
When question links are posted in chat (manually or by the automatic system) they get auto-formatted so that the question title and some of the text is displayed.
It would be convenient if the ...
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Can the "this question is closed" text include a pointer to chat?
Some of the questions that have been closed lately are closed because they're off-topic even though they're still relevant to sci-fi/fantasy fans such as ourselves. For these sorts of 'good ...
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Periodic recommendation chats
So, one of the common ways to deal with a type of question that comes up that isn't appropriate for the site, but is on topic, is to do a chat. I'm curious, is there any interest to do a periodic chat ...
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