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Old 12-24-2008, 02:10 PM
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Default Dead Chat

Seems like everytime I view the chat, all I see are idle members, no matter what time of the day. Is the chat that dead?

I had a little idea to maybe make it more noticeable people are in chat, in short just change "Chat" to "Chat (X)", X being the number of people in the chat, and only show the X if there is atleast one person.

Obviously from the vB end you won't be able to tell who is on though IRC (unless you made a plugin on that side I guess), but you could easily check user sessions to see who's on that page.

The flaw with that ofcourse is the session will expire, but that could be overcome, a little simple bit of javascript which records mouse moments and times and fires a session update through AJAX every x minutes if mouse movements are not idle.

Ofcourse, If I've just been very unlucky and the chat is not dead, feel free to ignore all that
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Old 12-24-2008, 02:37 PM
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It is not the most active channel, that is true.

but what we very often see is someone joining, ask a question (often even without reading the welcome message) and leave if nobody answers within a minute. Most who are online are not watching IRC all, they do other stuff and check for new messages once in a while, so waiting a bit longer might help.

But i have to admit that i also often don't start it anymore.
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Old 12-24-2008, 02:39 PM
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I've never even tried the chat.
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Old 12-24-2008, 02:54 PM
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What chat???

Maybe it would be a good idea to list it on the home page.
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Old 12-24-2008, 02:58 PM
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It is in the navbar on each page.
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Old 12-24-2008, 03:04 PM
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FedEx me some glasses.
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Old 12-24-2008, 03:26 PM
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Everytime I've been in there it's always been dead. I'd expect in the run up to xmas it won't be any active.
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Old 12-24-2008, 03:55 PM
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I visited it today and it's so dead.
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Old 12-24-2008, 04:24 PM
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Make it a tab perhaps?
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Old 12-24-2008, 06:58 PM
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a tab for unvisited content?!.. we already have the essential tabs we need, thanks...
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