FAQ

Q: Why doesn't one of my names show up on the account list?
A: The email and password for it isn't the same. Log out from your current name on profiles and log into that name to have it show on the account page so you can change it.

Q: How do I set the thumbnail cropping for my profile pic?
A: On the cropping page, you should see 2 versions of your pic. Simply draw a square on the left one to set the thumbnail area and click save. Note : Internet Explorer is known to have problems with the cropping feature, we recommend using Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome, if only for the picture cropping.

Q: Why doesn't the thumbnail show up for my image I uploaded?
A: The cropping of your profile pic wasn't done properly. You can retrieve your pic by clicking on the broken image icon, then right click on the image to save it on your hard disk before re-uploading it. See above for setting the thumbnail area

Q: How do I add images inside my profile?
A: You first have to upload your image to some image hosting service, like imageshack. Get the direct link to your image once hosted (ie the image alone and not an HTML page embedding it). In your profile, once in edit mode, click where you want to insert the image in your profile, then click on the "insert image" icon in the toolbar (circled in the picture below)

in the window that opens next, paste the address of your image in the field circled below:

You can also change the way your picture will be displayed or aligned to the text in the "appearance" and "advanced" tabs. Once you're done, click on "insert".

Q: How do I manually edit the HTML?
A: Click on the HTML button :

Q: How do I set a background to my profile?
A: Click the table button, right click on it and go to table properties, in there set the background to a url of a background image.

Almost everything I want to add at this point requires recoding half of the chat, either from mistakes I made when I was still learning to program, or because I rushed to get something done quickly(buddylist) and thus it ended up not being very expandable. The first version of the chat, that went up at the end of November 2009, took me more than a month of coding every day for 15-30 hours straight at a time. No free time go out, RP, so on. Then there was all the additional time adding things and fixing things. Doing half that over is going to take a lot of time.

Though some of the features themselves are simple and can be done in under an hour or two, I can't even do them until I recode a bunch of stuff first. Because of this, I'm not sure how many new features will be added at this point.

This is already the best RP chatroom out there by far, and works well, so I don't really have the personal motivation to spend 100's of hours recoding it as I had making it in the first place. I'll likely only do the recoding if someone donates a whole lot, sorry to say~

Planned Features: Groups

• Moderates/co-owners in groups set as moderators of permanent room.
• More forum like functionality.

Planned Features: Chat

• Ability to send messages to someone who is offline which they receive when they log on.
• Settings for adjusting sound volume, additional words to ping from, enabling sound on receiving messages in rooms.
• Fix to the lag that comes after having the chat opened for many hours/days.
• Online Group members shown on buddy list.
• Removing people from buddylist
• Fixing bugs with people not showing online when they should.
• Main images shown like a buddy-icon.
• Alerts for when a new message is posted in a group that you're in.
• Ability to select any alt name under your account to PM someone with.

Planned Features: Profiles

• Setting, which when enabled, auto-hides all images in a profile when loading them and stuff. Would be able to hide them from just "dirty" profiles.

August 27th 2009 -Groups almost ready to leave beta..

Probably noticed me adding a bunch over the last few days.

• Mini-view up top that shows new group messages, and invites.
• An expanded group view in profiles where the list of groups was (now list of groups is shortened until you expand)
• Invite in this group view on profiles
• Users recent messages and stuff in this group view.
• Lots of things recoded, made more effecient.  The backend is so much different so I can better handle account-level things(rather things done just on the name-leve).
• Fixed most (all? except how the edit/delete image on rollover can stick) the bugs with groups.  If there are more, post here to let me know.

August 20th 2009 -More javascript fun and group goodies.

• Begun working on a bar up top so you can quickly see new messages and invites.  Not completely functional yet, but you see the basic idea.

August 19th 2009 -More Group improvements.. again!

   While working on some msg stuff, like invites and unreads, I realized I needed a big change to the database to really have the multiple users under one account work well.
   So I spent the entire day on some database normalization and then having to adjust/recode tons of things to work with the huge database changes.
   But now it's set up well.

August 16th 2009 -More Group improvements.. again!

• Editor now works with groups!  Yay.
• Now if you are the last person in the group, and the owner, and you leave it, the group will be deleted.  This is the method to delete a group.  Keeps it from happening accidentally or something.
• Should have it fixed where people didn't have the appropriate powers on their group.

August 15th 2009 -More Group improvements.. again!

• Can no longer kick yourself from the group when the main owner. You must leave the group and choose a sucessor, so a group can not be without a main owner.
• Ajax for admin/moderator user options.

August 14th 2009 -More Group improvements.. again!

• Tons more code cleanup. Pretty much done with that part.
• Ajax for joining a group.
• Can now leave groups, and this uses Ajax too.

August 13th 2009 -More Group improvements

• Can now set to have it where users are auto-accepted into your group.
• Some more bug fixes that caused things to sometimes not work correctly, most people never would of encountered them.
• Added Ajax for group settings and appearance editing. It's really awesome, though only group owners can do the editing stuff to be able to see. D:

August 12th 2009 -Group improvements

Trying to get a lot of the php for groups done today.

• Recoded A LOT of the group stuff for the groups page and the class I made for it. You should notice the group pages load MUCH faster.
• Now says that there are no join requests, when there isn't, when you're moderator+.
• The 2nd style option for groups now lists users seperated by comma's. I realize I need to adjust the miniProfile to display up top to be better usable now. Harder than it sounds with the way I coded it.

August 11th 2009 -MiniProfile on groups, bug fixes.

• Some bug fixes to groups. Nothing apparent to most people, but caused some problems with some groups.
• Addition of "miniProfile" when you hover over names so it's easier to see who you actually want to click.

August 10th 2009 -More Ajax, additions, fixes!

Working on changing to dirty/clean profile marking to AJAX.

• Changed the profile clean/dirty marking to Ajax. Now when you vote it shows the confirmation right beside it. You can even flip back and forth between votes, and it updates and shows the confirmation right away!
• Updated the ajax messaging editing to return your new post with newlines. (But there is currently a bug where it shows the new-lines when you click, and if you don't remove them you'll get doubled new lines.)
• edits weren't escaped.. oops. Fixed.
• Fixed the "original message" on edits to show your very first message, not the last one.
• Added a nicer tooltip that pops up instantly, looks nicer, and I can put html in the tooltip. Maybe I should make it where people can use this in their profiles?
• Some code clean ups..
• Starting working on my own ajax calling function to use that is more robust.

August 9th 2009 -Editing posts, and Ajax!

Added post editing on groups where you can edit and update the post immediately, and fancy tooltips.

   I've been spending the past few days learning ajax, jQuery.
   Ajax is a method of sending data and calling data without refreshing the page.
Youtube uses this to manipulate the page without refreshing it in a lot of ways, as refreshing would interupt your video.
   Flickr uses this for editing image descriptions and such without having to load a new page.
   Google uses it all over too. It's basically a way to make things more responsive for the user. Without using ajax, you would of had to click an edit button, load another page that has the comment, then send it and load the page again. Usually when you see one of those circular loading icons, you're looking at Ajax in action.

   I'm going to be doing more and more with this, and javascript. To make sure the site appears simple and easy to use, while being very powerful.

   Another neat thing is I could have the static stuff on profiles load with normal html, and use php to call the php to actually load the profiles. This'll make profile page load instantly(as if they aren't fast enough), then the actual contents load a moment later.

   There really isn't limits to what can be done.. This can be the most amazing thing ever. It comes down to time, and motivation.
   Donations help~ *shrugs*

August 5th 2009 -Code enhancements, image hiding

   Tommy made some javascript so images can be hidden in profiles for those that don't like opening profiles to see smut (HI SAM). I'll be expanding on this later to make it so you can just have images on profiles labeled "dirty" hidden.

   I recoded a lot of the php to clean up my code and make everything go faster. Should notice pages loading instantly now, even though they where fast before.
   I'm still working on recoding more, and binge-coding lots of new group stuff..

August 1st 2009 -Profile labeling.

   Added a feature to "vote" whether a profile is clean or dirty. Do not abuse this, as it's important that profiles are labeled correctly.
   This will be used later for showing whether profiles are clean or smutty in the chat before you click profile, and other things.

July 31th 2009 -Image Uploader update

   Redid the new image uploader that I had done last week. I couldn't figure out what was making the image preview not work(since it was working before), so I just recoded it all over again. So now image preview works, and I added a warning if you try to save without cropping. Thanks to Tommy for additional javascript to warn people not to exit the page without cropping.

July 26th 2009 -Groups update

   Updated groups to add another setting in "Edit Settings"(Only group admins can access this). You can now allow non-members to post basic messages to your group.
   This is useful for my group to allow people to post support problems.. but for most groups probably not really since you can't yet delete messages. :P

July 25th 2009 -Beta Chat

   Decided to forget about that chat we were beta testing before.  It has too many bugs.
   Instead I'll have to make a new chat from scratch as there is nothing out there suitable that works reliably.  So this will take longer.. donations appreciated like always. :\

July 13th 2009 -Groups

   Groups were added for public testing.  I still need to develop new things for them, and there is a bug where the editor used for profiles doesn't work on them.
Thanks to Tommy for the javascript that greys out the alert button if you don't have rights to post an alert. ^^

July 9th 2009 -cessykishigunzijayetc update

   You can now delete names, change password, change email.

July 8th 2009 - Profiles recoded plus new additions

   There is now an account list that lists matches of same email/password.� So all your names with the same email assigned to them and password are listed under this.
�� Also, the whole profile system has been completely recoded.� While it looks the same, the back-end code is different to make it faster and more efficient.