06-19-2010, 09:22 AM | #1 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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I have some free time: TFP Chat Beta
I've been expecting a friend to call me to go out today, but I haven't heard from her. While I'm waiting I'm working on a couple personal items, one of which is updating the TFP Chat rooms.
Right now it is installed, I'll be tweaking it all this weekend and the upcoming week. Cams will be hopefully ready by the end of the week, I'm working out the hosting additions now. Thank you guys for donating! It's very appreciated and the more donations we receive the more I can upgrade this to fill the needs of the community. As I have said before, if you can't donate money, donate time by creating new threads, if you can't create new threads, respond to the ones that are created. use the link at the top of the screen. ^^^^ It's set to registered members only, it will automatically fill in your name and log you right in.
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06-19-2010, 10:09 AM | #3 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
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ah...
use the link at the top of the screen.
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06-19-2010, 10:09 AM | #4 (permalink) |
Drifting
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Location: Windy City
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Same message here... I am not sure if this post was just an FYI as he is installing, that would be my guess.
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06-19-2010, 10:18 AM | #5 (permalink) |
Young Crumudgeon
Location: Canada
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Awesome.
That's all I have to say.
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06-19-2010, 10:22 AM | #6 (permalink) |
Drifting
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Location: Windy City
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The link at the top of the screen still redirects me to Tinychat.
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06-19-2010, 10:26 AM | #7 (permalink) |
Young Crumudgeon
Location: Canada
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Look up a bit further. In the menu bar, between 'TFP Chatroom' and 'Donate Now!' you should see 'TFP Chat Room Beta.' It took me a minute to spot it myself.
If you're clicking that one and it's redirecting you to tiny chat, well... I don't know what to say. Congratulations, you just broke the internets.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said - Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame |
06-19-2010, 11:12 AM | #8 (permalink) |
Evil Priest: The Devil Made Me Do It!
Location: Southern England
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Works for me.
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06-19-2010, 11:32 AM | #9 (permalink) |
warrior bodhisattva
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Location: East-central Canada
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Both links are tinychat for me too.
Oh, wait. Menu bar, right.
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06-19-2010, 08:03 PM | #12 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Yes, sorry I wasn't more explicit.
I was excited dive back into it when I got home, but realize I'm more sleepy than I thought I was. There will be more tomorrow.
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06-20-2010, 05:33 AM | #14 (permalink) | |
Une petite chou
Location: With All Your Base
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I'm just vey happy that I can now chat on my iPhone.
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06-20-2010, 05:44 AM | #15 (permalink) |
Young Crumudgeon
Location: Canada
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Yes, it's better in every way.
.. A quick poll of the themes reveals that several of them are lacking chat links. Also, the ring bell button is just begging to be abused. When do cameras go live?
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06-20-2010, 06:09 AM | #16 (permalink) |
Drifting
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Location: Windy City
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For cams we're shooting for the end of the week - in a way this is good because we can tweak and test little bits at a time, and then be ready to go full swing with the last component.
Glad to see all you folks trying it out! Feel free to add any comments or suggestions to this thread.
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06-20-2010, 11:14 AM | #17 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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making adjustments still, but the webcams are now active.
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06-20-2010, 04:11 PM | #18 (permalink) |
Young Crumudgeon
Location: Canada
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That was fast. Maybe I should ask for things more often.
When do my donation kickbacks start?
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said - Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame |
06-20-2010, 04:37 PM | #19 (permalink) |
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Any possibility of enabling the user to change the background to a darker shade?
Current setup is white like Al Roker eating rice on a paper plate in a snow storm in gated community in Maine. Ex: I use the TFP "insignia" skin because it doesn't make my eyeballs want to explode. |
06-20-2010, 07:25 PM | #20 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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P9, yeah I know. I don't have great CSS skills so it will be slower for me to change the screen. I'm learning the parts and pieces as I can, it will get skinned to something matching TFP4.
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06-20-2010, 11:10 PM | #23 (permalink) |
Winter is Coming
Location: The North
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Super awesome!
My only suggestions would be to move the cams to the top of the window, with the text below that followed by the input area (similar to tinychat's arrangement) and to let us maximize/resize the chat windows. Seems a little silly to have one tiny cam if only one person is on. Other than that, looking great so far! |
06-20-2010, 11:13 PM | #24 (permalink) |
Oh dear God he breeded
Location: Arizona
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I have to say, it seems pretty cool so far. I would like see the cams a bit bigger and a bit higher resolution. the only thing that really pisses me off with it is I can't open it in a new tab, just a new window. I hate having multiple browsers open.
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06-21-2010, 03:58 AM | #25 (permalink) | ||
Tilted Cat Head
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The other thing is that the integration of our forum software to the chat software requires some setup that you can only login via the link above. Any other links I have made do not work. I'm working on that too, hopefully when I get that down properly, I'll find where it passes opening a whole new browser instance instead of a tab.
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06-21-2010, 10:59 AM | #27 (permalink) |
Evil Priest: The Devil Made Me Do It!
Location: Southern England
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Opens a new window in Chrome, even though I have it set to open links in a new tab.
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06-21-2010, 05:57 PM | #29 (permalink) |
Human
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Location: Chicago
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It's much snappier, but I agree that TinyChat's layout is better. Unfortunately, nothing is perfect. On the one hand, I really don't like that prochatrooms has lower resolution cams, has two fewer cam slots, doesn't show all cams on one screen, doesn't show cams automatically, and requires you to specifically choose each and every cam to view, but on the other hand the text input is WAY better since it doesn't use flash and unlike Tinychat we don't have to worry about people getting banned for nudity. Starkizzer hasn't been able to use her cam in Tinychat for at least a month since she was banned by them for nudity. The layout is definitely less than ideal though
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06-21-2010, 06:01 PM | #30 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
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I'm hoping to work on the layout this weekend. I should at least be skinning it when I have time during the week. I can't do anything about the docking of the cams making that automatic.
It's Fancy Food Show this weekend so I've only got Saturday. It's going to be a tight schedule.
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I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. |
06-21-2010, 06:22 PM | #31 (permalink) |
Hi floor! Make me a samwich.
Location: Ontario (in the stray cat complex)
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For the window that shows my cam, I can see faint image of the cam and sound logo after I move my mouse away. Is this something that can be fixed?
BTW, you are doing an awesome job, new chat is great.
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06-21-2010, 06:32 PM | #32 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Are you talking about the cam on the right side?
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I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. |
06-24-2010, 10:36 PM | #33 (permalink) |
Oh dear God he breeded
Location: Arizona
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Just wanted to say you're doing a great job on it so far Cythetig. Love the new colors and the removal of the water mark from the chat window. looks great. Keep up the good work, and thanks for spending so much working on this for us.
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