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Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek
2:27 PM
Made in response to a meta question wondering why we don't have chat rooms:
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Q: So why don't we get chat rooms?

StefanNot pushing for chat rooms, just inquisitive why Ubuntu SE gets to chat and we don't? In a way, this will solve my previous question

discussion
 
echox
echox
ping
aaah this works :-)
 
Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek
:224132 Hello!
 
echox
echox
:224134 test reply,hi michael
ah ok :-)
 
Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek
You can just type it too (@echox), but reply makes the little arrow that points to the post you're replying to; @echox just pings
 
echox
echox
@MichaelMrozek pong
wow, that is the best web chat interface I have seen for some time
It would be interesting to know what they use behind this.
 
Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek
2:43 PM
They (balpha and marc, two SO employees) wrote it themselves, if that's what you mean
I'm a big fan. Particularly the one-boxing, like the question above. There's a bunch of links it will recognize and convert automatically
E.g. xkcd:
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A: What links and sites are handled specially in chat?

Juha SyrjäläThe current list of integrated (we call this onebox, or oneboxing, ala search engines) sites is: Stack Exchange Questions Stack Exchange Answers Stack Exchange Users Stack Exchange Chat Messages Stack Exchange Chat Rooms (though not really pretty yet) Amazon Twitter Wikipedia XKCD YouTube Githu...

 
echox
echox
ok, now I'm really impressed :-) thats great
 
Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek
The unofficial main room is here:
 
echox
echox
:224156 not exactly, I would be interested which kind of architecture is behind this.
ah ok, thx
 
Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek
I don't know what it runs on, probably some sort of .NET thing like the rest of the network. Either balpha or marc would know, or you could ask in:
 
echox
echox
3:04 PM
ok, just understood that the transparency indicates the activity in the chat :-)
 
Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek
Oh, in the user list? Yeah, it somehow sorts by activity too, but I don't really understand how
It seems like it's just most recent speaker on the left, but then I see times where it's not that
 
echox
echox
seem it depends also on a channel join
 
Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek
(I added a new questions feed, that's why it suddenly dumped 5 questions in here. In the future it should only post questions as they're asked)
 
echox
echox
nice, so I can kill my irc bot :-)
oh, full transcript for the rooms
/me discovering every day another SE feature...
ok
got to go, enough work for today, I'm the last one in the office anyway
I think I will get used to thing here :-)
 
Michael Mrozek
Michael Mrozek
3:22 PM
It's 11am here -_-. See you later
 
echox
echox
5.23 pm :-)
bye!
 
 
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echox
echox
8:41 PM
good evening/morning/whatever :-)
 

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