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ferny · May 16, 2005

"Buddy List Test"? It's been on my mind for a while. I've searched the FAQ section and searched on the VBB forum and there isn't any info. :scratch:

Corry · May 16, 2005

Where does it say that?

Alison · May 16, 2005

I've never seen that either? :scratch:

Meysha · May 16, 2005

That's been irritating me too!
It's down the bottom left in the User CP. But I can't click on it. Maybe it becomes active if you've got people in your Buddy list.

Nikon Fan · May 16, 2005

I just tried by adding someone to my buddy list but it didn't become active. It looks like it's a category header but there's nothing underneath it.

So when there are people on your buddy list, then what? Is there someway to chat...or it just a list and thats it?

Chase · May 16, 2005

Shhhh, its a secret! :twisted:

ferny · May 17, 2005

So when there are people on your buddy list, then what? Is there someway to chat...or it just a list and thats it?

When someone is on your buddy list they have an + after their name in the "who's online" section front of the forum. You can't do anything special to of with them when they're on your buddy list, it just makes it easier to spot when they're on. Just like admins can spot people who are hidden because they have an * after their name.

If you add people to your ignore list you don't see any of their posts and they can't send you a private message.

If you add the same person to your buddy list and your ignore list you can't see their posts in the forum but you can recieve private messages from them. I think this last one is sort of abug though. I don't know if it's meant to be there and if it's been fixed or anything.

Nikon Fan · May 17, 2005

ferny said:
When someone is on your buddy list they have an + after their name in the "who's online" section front of the forum. You can't do anything special to of with them when they're on your buddy list, it just makes it easier to spot when they're on. Just like admins can spot people who are hidden because they have an * after their name.

If you add people to your ignore list you don't see any of their posts and they can't send you a private message.

If you add the same person to your buddy list and your ignore list you can't see their posts in the forum but you can recieve private messages from them. I think this last one is sort of abug though. I don't know if it's meant to be there and if it's been fixed or anything.

Thanks Ferny

I was hopin it was going to be a chat sort of thing...maybe Chase should hook us up with something cool like that

I swear I'll never make mean comments again Chase :lol:

Chase · May 17, 2005

If I hooked you guys up with a chat option, you'd probably never post messages in the forum!

LittleMan · May 17, 2005

Chase said:
If I hooked you guys up with a chat option, you'd probably never post messages in the forum!

hmmm... not if you only made it one room...

pleaseeeee........:hug::

ferny · May 17, 2005

Chase said:
If I hooked you guys up with a chat option, you'd probably never post messages in the forum!

Maybe it'll be different here but every forum I've been on who have opened up a chat room have noticed a drop in posting for a week or so, then it goes back to normal and the IRC room dies. I think people get really into it at first and then the novelty goes. That and you can't always use them at work.

A photoforum hosted chat session could be a good idea though. A sort lesson hosted by the more knowledgeable users here who'll talk you through something and then open it up to question afterwards. I think something similar went on a little while ago but I'm not sure.

Chase · May 17, 2005

We used to do the IRC thing, but it never really caught on. It can be a real technical challenge for some.

I'm not too up on other options, but I'm not opposed to it.

Nikon Fan · May 17, 2005

I'll stick w/PM's

Now hit me with some postive rep points :lol:

ferny · May 17, 2005

You can get CGI and PHP scripts which you host on here. You edit the config file and point it towards a server and room and then say to people "go here, enter your name and then click enter". They get taken to the room using the page hosted on here. I'm certain that VBB would have an official script to help out. Probably have a service that you can join and allow you to use the forum user database to keep usernames in the channel secure. If it hasn't I know there are mods which work along the same lines and certainly stand alone scripts. People who want to use mIRC or another client can normally. People can also use them at work most of the time because they don't need to install anything on their HDD.

The only problems are keeping it active and also it'll use bandwidth. How much I'm not sure.

http://hotscripts.com/CGI_and_Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Chat_Scripts/index.html
http://hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Chat_Scripts/index.html

Chase · May 17, 2005

Well, I'm in the process of planning the migration to a newer server and I think we'll have plenty of bandwidth once I migrate. So, this may all be an option for the near future. I can probably do some experimenting before then.