I have several questions and observations about the chat. I guess I’ll start with the observations that I and others have gathered.
1: The chat REQUIRES a game to be loaded. This may seem like a “Duh. It’s a gaming website!” moment, but this invents a whole bunch of problems for me as a developer. I have just recently gotten into programming, and I thought I would attempt to make a chatbot out of Javascript. It works, and is called “Crunchybot”, after the room it’s in most of the time. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good computer anymore, and Flash eats up too much processor power to keep up all the time (And my graphics card is integrated. Eugh.).
2: The Chat also has a Javascript overlay(?), which allows people to poke and prod it into doing cool things. This also allows the website developers easier ways to tweak and update the chat as well.
3: There are chat logs for (rooms/people), but not on anyone but the Admins’ control panels. This is inconvenient in that if you lose connection to the chat for ANY REASON, all of the logs are gone. This never made sense to me personally, because all it does is cause confusion and trolling due to mixed contexts. For example, a troll could make someone so angry that they’re fuming, and then call a mod, who then tempbans the victim.
4: The chat DOES NOT currently support Jabber protocols(?), as was suggested by the support staff to me. Not much of an observation, just something.
And now some questions.
Is there any way to log onto the chat and send messages without loading flash?
Is there anyone from the website development team that has worked on the chat that would feel up to talking to me, either on Skype in private, or in the forum in public (or any other way than physical meetings) about the chat?
Any other observations that may help me improve my bot?
