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Title: Chatroom installed
Post by: Bubba on October 21, 2007, 12:40:31 pm: As an experiment...

Go to chat from the top menu.

All chat is logged so play nice :)
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: andy_e on October 21, 2007, 02:12:55 pm: GCW says he has problems accessing UKB now it's been installed...
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: fatdoc on October 21, 2007, 02:15:23 pm: i'm OK with logging on...

i've never used a chat room....

WTF is it all about??
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Bubba on October 21, 2007, 02:41:17 pm: Quote from: andi_e on October 21, 2007, 02:12:55 pm
GCW says he has problems accessing UKB now it's been installed...
Hmmm not sure why ???
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Bubba on October 21, 2007, 02:43:12 pm: Quote from: fatdoc on October 21, 2007, 02:15:23 pm

i've never used a chat room....

WTF is it all about??
Just realtime chat - talk bollocks. More useful than a forum if you want to quickly arrange a lift or groom an impressionable youngster :)

You can create temporary rooms where you can chat with other users away from the two permanent rooms.
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: GCW on October 21, 2007, 02:54:40 pm: UKB crashes IE at present, it's taken me ages to post this!!!!
I'm playing with settings at this end. Maybe I'm being paranoid but it was stable yesterday :lol:
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Bubba on October 21, 2007, 02:56:48 pm: Anyone else using IE?

It's Flash based so shouldn't cause problems if you can see places like youtube ok
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Paul B on October 21, 2007, 03:00:54 pm: yup I use it and everything is A ok.
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Falling Down on October 21, 2007, 04:35:27 pm: I'm on IE and its all fine from here.
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Monolith on October 21, 2007, 04:56:34 pm: Genius on safari, handles like a dream! Nice touch Bubba.
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: slackline on October 21, 2007, 05:55:03 pm: Nice :great:

Works fine on galeon (a firefox based browser for linux)
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: neil h on October 21, 2007, 06:42:57 pm: ie here and all works fine

nice idea :bow:
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: fatdoc on October 21, 2007, 07:04:59 pm: another one in the eye for all you bill gates lovers ;)

oh shit, apple vs pc bicker about to ensue.... sorry...

BUT, bubs, does this change the *signiture* of the forum??, i dont know quite what i mean... but if work has a firewall (such as barracuda... a la NHS) will i now no longer be able to access the whole site from work??, chat is well banned you see...

tomorrow will no doubt tell...
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Bubba on October 21, 2007, 07:42:45 pm: Quote from: fatdoc on October 21, 2007, 07:04:59 pm
BUT, bubs, does this change the *signiture* of the forum??, i dont know quite what i mean... but if work has a firewall (such as barracuda... a la NHS) will i now no longer be able to access the whole site from work??, chat is well banned you see...
Should be ok, because it's all done through the browser but you'll have to find out. I don't expect it to be a major part of the forum anyway, just a nice little sideline :)
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: GCW on October 21, 2007, 07:52:30 pm: Right, after removing IE then re-installing with the latest updates it works fine.
Ours is not to reason why. :shrug:
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Houdini on October 22, 2007, 08:06:13 am: Confused face. Top menu? Can't find. Help.
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Houdini on October 22, 2007, 08:07:13 am: Not confused face. A OK.
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: GCW on November 04, 2007, 04:44:55 pm: Anybody really using the chat room? I haven't been in but I never see more than 2 in Chat Room on the home page "Who's online" bit.
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Bubba on November 04, 2007, 05:08:20 pm: Doesn't seem to get used much really whereas the one on ukcaving.com is quite popular.
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: GCW on November 04, 2007, 05:15:10 pm: Probably because the "chat" occurs in the forums!!
At least UKB is still available at work though :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Chatroom installed
Post by: Bubba on October 25, 2008, 04:17:35 am: Apologies to anyone who has attempted to use the chatroom recently. It wasn't working and I wasn't aware that it was busted.

It is now re-instated using a different chat system.

I know it's not really used but it's there if you want it. You can create private chatrooms if you want to thrash something out with somebody and can't be arsed to fire up an instant messaging service.