Guild Launch News
Chat Updates - Sounds!
The Site chat will now play a short 'keyclick' sound when a new message is received in the chat. This should help users stay engaged in chat while not actively watching the chat.
There is a 'Play Sounds' checkbox to the bottom right. The selection in that checkbox will persist via a cookie.
Enjoy!
Stephen
There is a 'Play Sounds' checkbox to the bottom right. The selection in that checkbox will persist via a cookie.
Enjoy!
Stephen
I'm curious why you consider a timestamp to be a threshold of usability? It doesn't seem like that useful of info to me. If it is something worth responding to and they are still 'in chat' then I will respond. Otherwise, knowing the exact second they sent the message isn't that informative.
-Stephen
-Stephen
Well it's a quite basic feature on most any chat systems, no?
And I wouldn't think it's too hard to implement?
I see sounds most useful in situations where there's actually some chatting happening, and so that you can browse other tabs after posting your message and then get notified when someone posts a reply so that you can jump right back into the conversation without having to constantly sit on the chat page and flip back to the tab frequently. Ofcourse it's also handy when so that you get notification when new people come to the channel and post greetings or whatever.
However when I've been away from the computer while still having had the chat open in my browser, or if for whatever reason I've had the chat muted, timestamps come especially handy so that I can seen when conversations have been taking place if there's some chat history by others up there. So that I know if the chat is even active anymore or has it been quiet for hours etc.
Also very handy for keeping track of time, no need to keep looking at a clock in situations where you need to know the time for whatever reason, thus it also prevents you from missing appointments/activities/whatever just because you happened to lose track of time while chatting with your friends etc
Me myself and majority of my guild members seem to miss this option as everyones gotten so used to having it, so that we've mainly been using a freenode IRC based chat embedded on the site instead of the actual Chat option as it is. Now we're revisiting the idea of chainging to the Chat page as the sounds got added, but there's still some mixed feeligns mainly due to lack of timestamps and no option to chainge the time (shows only CST as default).
And I wouldn't think it's too hard to implement?
I see sounds most useful in situations where there's actually some chatting happening, and so that you can browse other tabs after posting your message and then get notified when someone posts a reply so that you can jump right back into the conversation without having to constantly sit on the chat page and flip back to the tab frequently. Ofcourse it's also handy when so that you get notification when new people come to the channel and post greetings or whatever.
However when I've been away from the computer while still having had the chat open in my browser, or if for whatever reason I've had the chat muted, timestamps come especially handy so that I can seen when conversations have been taking place if there's some chat history by others up there. So that I know if the chat is even active anymore or has it been quiet for hours etc.
Also very handy for keeping track of time, no need to keep looking at a clock in situations where you need to know the time for whatever reason, thus it also prevents you from missing appointments/activities/whatever just because you happened to lose track of time while chatting with your friends etc
Me myself and majority of my guild members seem to miss this option as everyones gotten so used to having it, so that we've mainly been using a freenode IRC based chat embedded on the site instead of the actual Chat option as it is. Now we're revisiting the idea of chainging to the Chat page as the sounds got added, but there's still some mixed feeligns mainly due to lack of timestamps and no option to chainge the time (shows only CST as default).