I'm going to *OFFICIALLY* step down in terms of my being involved with chat in any capacity aside from being a user. I only ever initially agreed with Seraph0x to help get the new chat system up and running, and configured for user login. This has been done for a long time. There was never any formal talk about my doing anything else, I made the post about features that we could add, and I planned to code as I had time...
I do not have the time to get things done as quickly as some in the community deem appropriate, and rather than deal with any drama or fall out from that anymore, I'm simply going to remove myself the equation. I don't plan to disappear from the community, just remove my donating the little spare time I had to helping with it from a technological standpoint. In the next few days, I'll finish wrapping up any work or settings tweaks I need to get, I'm going to send forum PMs to Seraph0x and Mistress Jenifer, with any information that is appropriate and the coding work I had finished that hadn't gotten posted to the site (or almost finished for that matter). And then Seraph0x can remove my access from the server if he wants, so that I'll be nothing more than a simple user.
Thanks for everyone who's put up with me, and given encouragement towards having a working chat.
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard Nixon
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Now I'd like to specifically address a few points from Oda's most recent post, so he has relevant answers to the questions he's asked...
Oda wrote:2 Months since the last update... no progresse at all.. not one small new feature or something else...
In response to this, I've been working on coding a few things, but have had such limited time, you're right, there's not been a new feature for a while... Except that I fixed a couple thing
Oda wrote: that the chat isn´t really stable anymore. It´s down more often now then before
The issues with chat stability boil down to chat having become more popular and the chat server living on a server with slightly less memory than we could use. We are in fact finishing setting up some automated stuff so if chat crashes, it will automatically reboot, fixing some of the issue.
Oda wrote:it would have been better to keep the old chat and not to create a completely new one.
I was not involved in the decision for switching chat systems in any way shape or form in reality... I heard that Ph0x was looking for an alternate (or considering giving up on chat), and I threw in my 2 cents about an idea for one possible replacement. The issues with the new chat aren't something that is unresolvable, and many of the issues have gotten worked out over time. The issues with the old chat system were such that it was *MUCH* harder to get back up after a crash, and we didn't know what caused the crashes... Here we know chat sits on a server a little too small memory wise for it, and there's a small memory leak in the software, which is what leads to the crash.
Lastly, I will address, that there are more people visiting chat now, from more platforms than we ever saw in flashchat. In addition we see people hanging out more, many people have commented on how much they like the option of being able to login with an IM client vs only being able to ask it wish a platform that has flash (like iOS lacks). In addition some of the items that were on the list people have commented on and so needed to be changed... For example many females enjoyed the lack of gender icons (which meant less unwanted PMs for them)... And many are on from school/work so much they wanted a disable pictures feature if we added pictures, so they could still be in chat.
Hope that answers your questions Oda.
