Questions tagged [chat]
Real time, stateful web chat that's a part of every Stack Exchange site.
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The Tavern needs a sidebar - could we have a direct chat link for MSE as well?
The rest of the network has chat on the sidebar. While it's great to see my not so evil plans happen - a notable exception to chat being on the sidebar is on meta. Meta has its own chat instance, and ...
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Possibility to prevent a chatroom from freezing
A room which has no activity for 14 days gets frozen - but at the same time the system leaves at least one room associated with a specific site open. OTOH typically a site has one room which can be ...
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Alignment issue in the Stack Exchange button on Chat sites
There is an alignment issue with the Stack Exchange button on Chat sites - the right hand side of the text is truncated.
The same issue is also present in the Inbox and Achievements dialog boxes.
For ...
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Chat link has now been added to left navigation bar
You may have noticed that over the last several weeks, we ran an experiment that added a link to chat on Stack Overflow and some Stack Exchange sites in an attempt to make it more visible to site ...
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Chat search seems to be broken
I don't know when exactly it started, but I noticed this morning that the search function in chat seems to be broken, returning 0 results found every time. I have tried with many different rooms and ...
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Banner on Chat Home not sticky when scrolled down
Currently, there is a notice about a chat survey that is shown on various places, including the Chat Home as a banner.
However, when the page is scrolled down, there is a space between the banner and ...
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Which chat bots have a justifiable need for an increased rate limit?
I'm working on fixing rate limiting in Chat. As Makyen points out there,
The changed rate limit was helpful for SmokeDetector to handle a recent wave of spam
and so I want to be mindful of that when ...
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Did the new highly visible chat icon result in a higher chat activity, and if so, to what extent?
I noticed a relatively new chat icon appearing on some SE sites such as Stack Overflow and Super User. Has this change led to a noticeable increase in chat activity?
To clarify, I'm particularly ...
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Collapsible comment section (instead of moving comments to chat)
I understand that focus should be on questions and answers. But is it really necessary to move comments to chat? They are often extremely instructive and IMO much is lost by burying them in chat.
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Is it on purpose that left-nav contains chat only on the main site and not on meta?
I have noticed that a link to chat was recently added to the left navigation bar of some sites - but it is shown only on main sites, not on per-site-metas?
Is it different on purpose? Would it perhaps ...
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Does Stack Exchange sell chat data?
Stack Exchange sells Q&A data but I wonder the following: does Stack Exchange sell chat data?
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Chat survey link leads to 403 error page (for Russian users)
Link from the message
We’re exploring improvements to chat and need your help! We’d appreciate your feedback in this quick, 2-minute survey
leads to a 403 page:
Access Denied
You don't have ...
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Private rooms on stackexchange.com inaccessible following survey
Following a Qualtrics survey about chat being released (so it shows up in chatrooms), I've lost access every private room on the chat.stackexchange.com database that I had access to earlier today. ...
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A message visible in the room but not in the transcript
This is quite unusual situation. In this chatroom one can see a message posted on March 4 (by a bot).
And a oneboxed version of that message can be seen in the transcript on March 12.
However, when I ...
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It's almost impossible to use chat with Firefox Android
SE Chat Frontend is incompartible with mobile Firefox when I try to write a message.
Scroll jumps to top when I try to type any symbol in the input box, and input box hides under the keyboard
If I ...
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