New Feature Superchat is here!

It's been requested for a long time and now I'm happy to say it's arrived!

Direct in-site person-to-person chatting has now been installed and is available to all logged in members.

You should now see a big bar at the bottom of your screen which resembles Facebook chat somewhat - so how do you use it?

Well, like Facebook, you can only chat with your friends - so if you want to start communicating with someone, you need to add them to your friends list - this can be done here.

Once added (and they accept) - you will then see their online status in the bottom right and be able to hit them up at will

If you want a multiuser chat - then this can be done in the chatrooms, found in the bottom left with the

icon.

Obviously as it's new, I haven't been able to test for serverload - but hopefully it won't be too bad. If we start running into issues, I may have to set it so only donated members can use it ... but fingers crossed

Oh, and if you want to remove it entirely - the option is in the user control panel

 

[custard]

E-stalking reaches a new level :devil:

 

[Captain Mike]

Now to add carl to the list.......

 

[Ffoxy]

Its really screwing up smooth scrolling Ben, on this PC anyhow... I'll try it on my laptop tonight.

 

[ben]

Reported scrolling issues with IE - should be some bug fixes out in the next week or so. Or you can just turn it off in the UserCP

Server load has gone up by 45% though which is more worrying .... gonna have to see if this can be optimised in some way.

 

[Captain Mike]

I know you wont need to look at this at any point soon but.

it seems if you have a username with a space in it then it only displays the first bit before the space. So when I type I am come up as Captain

(no scrolling issues in firefox )

 

[Captain Mike]

Also the smiley face on it isnt smiley its scary

 

[CLXCraig]

I like it.

whatever next..... notifications of posts on subscribed threads....

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

:yeahthat:

Well done Ben

It freaked Tim out last night

 

[dave]

i just realised a good use for this, its a blooming quick way to contact fiat parts managers if they are in your friends list

 

[Captain Mike]

i just realised a good use for this, its a blooming quick way to contact fiat parts managers if they are in your friends list

Think of the annoying tech questions you will get harrased with though

 

[Ffoxy]

Yup... disabled Chat in User CP and scrolling is good in IE!

 

[Adrian Bravo]

When you go into gallery it does not come up. But your chats are still there if you go back.

 

[ben]

Yeah it has an issue if loading a file from a different folder to root (so gallery, classifieds and links are all affected for now).

The new version was just released this morning, so later on tonight I'll get it upgraded, see if it resolves any of the current issues.

If not, I'll start getting them all reported.

 

[Lloyd71]

Nothing at all showing up in Opera, is this normal? I'm guessing it wasn't made to be Opera compatible.

 

[ben]

Oh I turned it off to upgrade it

See if any of the previous issues have been resolved, quite a few bug fixes in this update.

 

[Lloyd71]

Ah, OK. I see it's working just fine now

 

[karbineftw]

I love it. Just need more friends now!

 

[fingers99]

Oh, and if you want to remove it entirely - the option is in the user control panel

Thank God for that. Any chance of real -- rather than advertised -- .png support? And support for (upper case) .JPG (which my Canon insists on)?

 

[killahboo]

Hi this is a great feature, I was wondering what mod you used to add it as I run a forum (totally different market) and would love to add something like this