Shoutbox!

[Gryzor]

Well, maybe you've noticed it at the top of the main forum page. If you like it, use it. If you don't, off it goes

[fano]

Sadly doesn't appear here (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20111121 Firefox/8.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.5)

[Gryzor]

Tried FF (6.02), Opera (12), IE and Chrome Canary, they all work. Cache maybe?

Can anyone else confirm?

[Gryzor]

Ehm... sorry, I had forgotten to set the permissions right. Try again?

[Bryce]

I shouted at it, but nothing happen? 

Bryce.

[AMSDOS]

Somebody else had a Shoutbox on their website, forgotten about it until now! I suppose they are really handy if you've got Personal problems, but it's the kind of detail you want to see disappear eventually rather than remain around for the rest-of-the-world to see! I just don't know how that could apply on an on-topic sense unless something tragic happens to your CPC. Prove me wrong and keep it on! I guess we're no closer to having built-in Skype conservations (kind of featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey)? Til that happens this'll have to do!

[Gryzor]

I shouted at it, but nothing happen? 

Bryce.

It's a zen shoutbox. It just stares back at you in a soothing way.

[TotO]

If you filter forum messages, you lose it...
Better to put it always on bottom, after the "quick reply". (we always show it after the last post)

[Gryzor]

But it only appears on the main page...

[MacDeath]

So no need to pollute existing topics... we can now get crazy on ponies outside analblast topics...

[tastefulmrship]

Is there any chance of gaining access to the whole shout-box or does the db only hold what's shown?

[Gryzor]

Not sure. I know I can set the limit of what's shown, and in the moderation center I can see everything from since I installed it, but I'd have to look into it for details. Why??

[mahlemiut]

All the shoutbox needs now is a crazy rambling Brazilian posting. 

[tastefulmrship]

Not sure. I know I can set the limit of what's shown, and in the moderation center I can see everything from since I installed it, but I'd have to look into it for details. Why??

I dunno, it might be handy to see old shouts. Especially if there are some useful ideas/pictures/music/disks that initiate projects, and related shouts have already disappeared off the list.

However, if you've got access to all shouts, then we could always just ask you or Devilmarkus to check for us. Which sounds easier to me.

[Gryzor]

  Probably yes, but then again it's just a shoutbox, not a collaboration tool!


Personally I've never used it in other fora, but they seem kinda popular, so I thought...

[MacDeath]

I shoot at it but only manage to get a hole on my monitor...

[steve]

I don't think there is any point in having a shoutbox on a forum, but on another site I use, their shoutbox goes back about six months or more, so you don't have to keep logging in every few hours in case you miss something.

[Gryzor]

As I said, I don't use it, but I can see its point (darn! I wrote "it's point"! Shaaaame!): it's a community, people hang out, they talk.
So if it went back further you'd prefer it?
@MacDeath: try shouting at it as Bryce did, instead of shooting it.

[steve]

As I said, I don't use it, but I can see its point (darn! I wrote "it's point"! Shaaaame!): it's a community, people hang out, they talk.
So if it went back further you'd prefer it?
@MacDeath: try shouting at it as Bryce did, instead of shooting it.

I don't think I will use it but if it's there then it should go back a while, can you arrange to go back to the last time a user logged in, like the unread posts function?

[AMSDOS]

I dunno, it might be handy to see old shouts. Especially if there are some useful ideas/pictures/music/disks that initiate projects, and related shouts have already disappeared off the list.

However, if you've got access to all shouts, then we could always just ask you or Devilmarkus to check for us. Which sounds easier to me.

That goes towards what I said earlier with Shoutboxes being useful for when you want to ramble on and see something on the Internet disappear! Don't think you can have an Database which stores the messages Infinately!    Twitter might have that facility though! 

[TotO]

Is the "CPCWiki shootbox" can be renamed "Shootbox"?
I know we are old and may be Alzheimer can hit... But, now? 

[tastefulmrship]

The new version of the shoutbox doesn't recognise URLs and truncate them into ~20 chars, like the last one did.
That's why yesterday's pony image caused so much havoc!


EDIT: Today's pony is an attachment... I'm too tired to play around with TinyURL and whatnot to stop the SHOUTBOX looking all pooey!
(It's MODE 1, 7 colours, 01-06-14-25, 384x272 in .png)

[Gryzor]

Just use a URL shortener

[MacDeath]

make it 20% shorter...

[Gryzor]

...or, %20 shorter, har, har, har