New Chat Function

**William** · 03-06-2013, 09:04 PM

I have added a new chat function to "all" forums.

You can now chat in all threads. New posts made by other people will automatically pop up on your screen without any need to reload the page. This means that you can keep a thread open and chat with one or more people in it. The thread will check for new posts every 3 seconds and if anyone posted something new it will automatically appear on your screen. Everything posted becomes regular posts and can be viewed at a later time just like any other post you make.

The chat function has a 3 second delay at the moment. This delay might be increased or decreases to optimize prestanda as the times goes by. I chose to set it to 3 seconds to keep a near real time chat feeling while still reducing the server load considerable compared to if there was no delay.

A low number of forums are excempted from this feature including the competition and thoughts and suggestions forum.

Hope you all will enjoy being able to cmmunicate with eachother faster and with more ease.
report any problems you may experince to me.

I am not sure if this feature will work on all mobile devices but I think it should.

**Sandz** · 03-06-2013, 09:08 PM

Now is this why we see "Live" next to all of these?

**Cliff** · 03-06-2013, 09:23 PM

Sounds like a fun feature

**William** · 03-06-2013, 09:26 PM

You should no longer see live every where. I removed it due to it being ugly. BUt yes that was why you saw those Live texts every where.

**William** · 03-06-2013, 09:27 PM

Cliff. It is a more advanced version of the feature you and the other mods helped me test some time back and it works in the same way.

**William** · 03-06-2013, 09:28 PM

You are also available to click the
"Click "Reload" to fetch new posts without leaving the page. " button to check for new posts without having to reload the page. This is a lot quicker than reloading the page and can save a lot of hassel on slow connections. To manually click works in all forums.

**Sandz** · 03-06-2013, 09:34 PM

Just an fyi I still see all the lives.

**William** · 03-06-2013, 09:39 PM

okay. Well that is a cache issue and they will disapear when your computer clears it cache. Most likley they will disapear if you click reload in your browser on a forum page.

I can say this for sure because the pic has been deleted from the server ;-)