Temporary Tavern off the Meta

balpha

14:37

room mode changed to Public: anyone may enter and talk

balpha

14:47

IT'S HAPPENING DOT GIF

balpha

15:00

almost there

the move of chat.SE and chat.SO should be a lot quicker

Shadow Wizard

15:14

@balpha I can see the meta.se chat but can't post

balpha

yep, that's expected

it's still pointing at the old database, but that's readonly now

Shadow Wizard

ah

balpha

the remaining data is being transfered to GCP now, at which point we'll point it at the new DB

Shadow Wizard

Why wasn't it announced before if this was planned? (Not blaming you of course.)

balpha

It was supposed to be announced last week (for today). Communication breakdown 🙁

Shadow Wizard

15:16

:/

balpha

that said, it was also meant to be faster (and chat.SE and chat.SO still should be)

Tinkeringbell

I have a question! Do we get to tear this room down once it's served its purpose with a tavern brawl? :P

Shadow Wizard

I ask for two chickens, one cow, and three pigeons as compensation.

:-P

balpha

that's why chat.MSE is going first, I know y'all are an understanding bunch

😁

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell or just leave it be as actual backup for the Tavern for times of need. :P

Tinkeringbell

15:18

@ShadowWizard Booooring :P

Shadow Wizard

lol

balpha

@Tinkeringbell does the gaming.se chat easter egg still work (I honestly don't know)? if so, I could change the room to be a gaming room, and you could shoot it to pieces

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard Just make a new one (pop-up Tavern) anytime one is needed. :P

@balpha You're asking me? You're the chat developer? :P

Journeyman Geek

@balpha I suspect it would simply cause chat's hardly been touched outside the TL changes in eons :D

Shadow Wizard

@balpha worked last time I checked, few months ago.

balpha

15:21

room parent site changed to gaming.stackexchange.com

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell but this one is cooler, it was created by balpha!

balpha

insert coin

Shadow Wizard

insert coin

Tinkeringbell

insert coin

Shadow Wizard

hmm where's the "click me"?

@balpha so is it broken? :(

balpha

15:22

no it works

Shadow Wizard

ah oh wait

insert coin

balpha

you have to reload to actually get the gaming theme

Shadow Wizard

yeah

awesome!

Tinkeringbell

I have no clue how that was supposed to work, but it was fun XD

Twineee The Pickle Wizard

insert coin

Shadow Wizard

15:23

rofl

Journeyman Geek

insert coin

ah oops

Twineee The Pickle Wizard

what on earth just happened

Journeyman Geek

insert coin

Shadow Wizard

need to reload

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A: What Easter eggs do the chat sites have?

All chat domains, all rooms: this is fine Typing the message this is fine as-is results in server side rendering of the message into this: This isn't case sensitive, however formatted messages won't be parsed as a picture. Meta Stack Exchange/(any room): red tags Send a message consisting solely...

Journeyman Geek

lol

Shadow Wizard

15:24

@balpha decided to let us have fun while waiting for MSE chat to get back to life

Twineee The Pickle Wizard

how did @balpha make this?

Shadow Wizard

But sadly when se.com chat maintenance will start, this one here will stop working. :/

@TwineeeThePickleWizard just changing the parent site of the room to gaming, @Pet can do it too in his Den, or @user in TOL.

balpha

@ShadowWizard on the plus side, the notification will point people to the actual Tavern, which means you might get a few new patrons!

Shadow Wizard

@balpha ah, smart!

Though...

8 mins ago, by Shadow Wizard

I ask for two chickens, one cow, and three pigeons as compensation.

;-)

The game can be considered compensation as well. :D

You could leave us without any fun eggs to play with.

Journeyman Geek

🐔🐔🐄🦤🦤🦤

there you go

Tinkeringbell

15:30

Fun fact: dodo's count as pigeons :D

So I'd have sent him dodo's :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

fixed then

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek those are squares, not pigeons

[status-invalid]

oh dang

can't have it all, eh?

Journeyman Geek

curse your lack of emojis

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell doubt there's emoji for that. :P

ah lol I see your original did have pigeons: 🐔🐔🐄🕊️🕊️🕊️

devoid

insert coin

Shadow Wizard

15:34

So it's accepted!

Tinkeringbell

Shadow Wizard

yay

Big

balpha

@ShadowWizard still running on Windows 98 are you? 😁

Shadow Wizard

insert @devoid

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard Didn't get to do that for a while... XD

Journeyman Geek

15:34

Tinkeringbell

It was high time :D

Petəíŕd the Wizard

wonders in

Shadow Wizard

@balpha I wish! Would be much faster, that's for sure. :-D

@JourneymanGeek cheating! :D

oh wow even the cow is different lol

@Tinkeringbell do... what? suspecting

Petəíŕd the Wizard

lol

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard Post giant emoji's ;)

Journeyman Geek

15:37

@ShadowWizard might be browser or OS related

Petəíŕd the Wizard

@ShadowWizard huh? I'll check it now

Nah no way to change parent site of a room after creating it.

lol brain fart

I can change my user parent site as much as I want though

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell ah, so here you go, I'll make it smaller! ;)

Tinkeringbell

:(

Shadow Wizard

@PetəíŕdtheWizard oh my, you can't?? Pity.

Never tried actually as my rooms were all created on MSE chat.

I think? checking

Petəíŕd the Wizard

@ShadowWizard yeah

Shadow Wizard

15:43

ah oops, so only mods can change parent site of chat room? :/

Petəíŕd the Wizard

seems that yes

balpha

Fun fact: There's an ancient tradition at Stack Overflow called "shipping hats". In the google hangout where we're coordinating releases or that kind of thing (like right now), everyone puts on a silly hat. This is me currently:

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Shadow Wizard

omg, nice!

Petəíŕd the Wizard

yay

Shadow Wizard

saved image for future use

@balpha I'm really glad that tradition was kept, SO/SE lost too many cool traditions over time.

balpha

15:52

nods.gif

Petəíŕd the Wizard

Petəíŕd the Wizard has frozen this room.

Petəíŕd the Wizard has unfrozen this room.

balpha

current status:

They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.

Petəíŕd the Wizard

lol

balpha

ETA 3 minutes

and we're back!

Petəíŕd the Wizard

yay!

checks

Twineee The Pickle Wizard

16:07

nice

3 minutes

/remind balpha to come back in 2 minutes

oops no oak

Petəíŕd the Wizard

@TwineeeThePickleWizard lol no remind for other users for Oak.

Twineee The Pickle Wizard

@PetəíŕdtheWizard please make a coherent sentence.

should I summon oak?

Petəíŕd the Wizard

@TwineeeThePickleWizard you can't.

Twineee The Pickle Wizard

@PetəíŕdtheWizard why not?

Petəíŕd the Wizard

@TwineeeThePickleWizard try it out if you dare

Twineee The Pickle Wizard

16:10

@PetəíŕdtheWizard lemme find the summoning room...

Petəíŕd the Wizard

I got this:

balpha

we're all done!

told you, chat.SE and chat.SO are gonna be quick 😅

see y'all back in the regular tavern 👋

Feeds

16:31

balpha has frozen this room.

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