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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:19 pm

September 10th, 2019:

Lanzer

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

Hey, hope the staff are having a good day 3nodding

Question Category: games

Friends chat doesn't work last I checked - you can buy a room but can't access. Not sure if you guys knew of this issue. I don't know if anyone else really used it, but I liked it!

Let me check on Friends chat, see what's going on with the server.

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:02 pm

October 22nd, 2019:

Lanzer

Shallotte

Features

Hello! I'd like to pitch something that I've been thinking about ever since I saw the Ballroom/Spring party room options that can be placed within topics; and how they can be used to modernize(and potentially revolutionize) the websites forums. It's a bit long, so please refer to the spoiler below.

I think there is a lot of potential in revamping the Ballroom/Spring party forum feature and converting it into an HTML chatroom. Here is how would I envision it to look like:

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Essentially, this feature would be a miniature towns(and not meant to replace towns. Towns would allow for better events and Bigger chatspaces). When this feature is enabled on a forum post, it would allow people to join the discussion live(unless the room is locked) while simultaneously being able to view posts and create their own forum posts via menu. These chatrooms and the discussions will be visible live; even to people who are unable to join the live-chatroom. Which paves the way for some cool things to be done with it.

Here is a rundown of what features I put into the chatroom and then what their potentials are:

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-Lock/unlock room: The ability for the thread owner to lock or unlock the chatroom. This will prevent flooding or unwanted people from getting into certain discussions. For instance... If you are having a live ATS or an [npc] joins the chatroom- you can prevent yourselves being dogpiled by the userbase. Allowing to invite certain users at your leisure; or to answer questions via the Forum Pulse instead

-Chat History: Self explanatory. A history of the chat, so it can be viewed or copied/pasted when needed.

-Forum Pulse: Similar to the forum Pulse that already exists on the forums. This will be a live feed of what's being posted on the current topic- in real time. So it would be a chat history for forum posts. This will allow people on and off the chatroom to discuss together, without either party feeling like they are left out of the discussion.
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I feel like this would be especially useful for doing Podcast-like threads(such as ATS) or event threads for NPC interactions(Like what the original Zurg event did) where unlike towns; everything is plainly visible and readable for everyone that is viewing the forums-(but at the same time, the chat history won't be flooded with users that don't have good input).

-Make a forum post: This feature brings up the forum editor across the entire chat screen; so you can submit actual forum posts to the discussion, without having to leave chatroom.

-Friends: A list of features pertaining to your friends or just your friends list.

-Room limit: To prevent over-flooding, a limit is in place to keep things under control.

-Mobile: Clicking on the chat could full screen it for mobile users.

A feature would also make events more interactive; as the HTML5 chatroom can allow for games to be programmed directly within them; that chat participants could play together.

Although it would be a costly feature- I do believe that such a feature would completely revolutionize the forums. It would bring back that 'virtual world' feeling everyone is looking for- with the added boon for it's potential with events threads and podcast threads.

Do you think this is a feesable idea? Would you be interested in doing something like this?

Yes we've been in talks about chat functions within a thread for a long time. Would love to have such a feature eventually. Thank you for the suggestion.