[DocJohn]

The new chat rooms are now online from the bottom toolbar. (You may need to refresh your browser, clear your browser's cache, or reload your browser in order to see the chat bar.)

The "Chat (#)" is a list of your friends online, so you can initiate a one-on-one chat with them. The "Chat Rooms" are our normal-style chatrooms.

As usual, all community guidelines apply in every section of chat -- including one-on-one chats as well as the chatrooms.

Please let me know if you have any questions or issues with the new chat system. We will keep the old chat system running for another day or so just to ensure there are no issues with the new chatrooms.

Best,
DocJohn

[Tamster]

hi i see one thing that would help alot can we find a way to put members list in alphabetical order in chat. when we get alot of ppl going it is hard to keep track of the list.
thanks tam

[tyranover]

Oh man, I'm psyched about this. Much much better than flashchat123! Thanks Doc!

[Tamster]

also the new chat doesn't announce when ppl come in the room. you see a message when you come in but nothing when other member enter. that would be a big help.
It is a nice chat overall tho.
thank you for the effort, tams

[DocJohn]

I'm sorry, but we can't change the functionality or features of the chatroom, as it's provided by a third-party. We can, however, make suggestions to the developers for future improvements.

Quite similar to the Facebook type chat, thanks DocJohn!

[LadyShadow]

Very cool chat!

It does look Facebook chat. I like it.

[Onward2wards]

I'm loving the new chat so far.

My first impression of the new chat is very positive! Thanks DocJohn.

[reb569]

Looks pretty neat!

[Crazy Hitch]

Thank you DocJohn this is great!

[emgreen]

I know there's no way to change functionality, & flashchat is gone for good reasons, but I feel the new chat has too many distracting bells, whistles & other features that detract from having in depth conversations. The GIFs are especially annoying. So...That's my humble review. I know this was well-researched & thought out, and I appreciate the work it took to get it up & running. I'll get used to it...

good to see the 1 and 1 feature back (i've been wanting that back for a while)

now, to get in to it..

proving difficult

I can see i'm going to get impatient with this pretty quickly.

I can't even get in

when I click on the person I want to talk too it just freezes.

[Moreta]

what happened to the gifs man. that was the one good thing about this chat.

I've had some glitches on mobile-I'm not able to see the GIFs I send and sometimes the text box gets "stuck" when sending my message.

Other then that it's great!

[DocJohn]

The GIFs are gone, there were too many people playing with them in ways that we can't rectify with our community guidelines and need to provide a safe and supportive chat environment. Sorry.

[Hairball]

Doc, I am old and can't see very well and sure would appreciate some color and font sizes, you mentioned u can't change some aspects. In this day and age u would think u could add features such as those, like adding an app on the phone for text and color. Can u add an app to a chat ? Don't know anything about puters but just thought i was ask.

[tyranover]

Hey doc, Loving the new chat.

Is there any way to get the bold text for mods removed? It feels a little bit like I'm shouting at the entire room. If not, that's fine

edit: Also, some users were expressing a desire for a darker theme. maybe one of the ones included here: https://www.arrowchat.com/store/app/hd-theme-pack

would work?

[Hope]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

The new chat rooms are now online from the bottom toolbar. (You may need to refresh your browser, clear your browser's cache, or reload your browser in order to see the chat bar.)

The "Chat (#)" is a list of your friends online, so you can initiate a one-on-one chat with them. The "Chat Rooms" are our normal-style chatrooms.

As usual, all community guidelines apply in every section of chat -- including one-on-one chats as well as the chatrooms.

Please let me know if you have any questions or issues with the new chat system. We will keep the old chat system running for another day or so just to ensure there are no issues with the new chatrooms.

Best,
DocJohn

HELP!!! I cannot get into Chat room!!
hope

[Hope]

Originally Posted by Tamster

hi i see one thing that would help alot can we find a way to put members list in alphabetical order in chat. when we get alot of ppl going it is hard to keep track of the list.
thanks tam

HELP!!! I can't get into Chat room

Hope

[tyranover]

Originally Posted by Hope

HELP!!! I cannot get into Chat room!!
hope

Try hitting CTRL+F5, and then the bar should be on the bottom of the page

[Tamster]

ok now the question is how do mods or chat hosts make rooms for scheduled chats
working my way thru this chat lol
i feel so old

[Tamster]

we are having a few accidents with ppl mistakenly turning themselves in. the order of the choices seem to cause a little problem . but it is easily fixed so no worries.

[DocJohn]

Unfortunately we can't change fonts/color/font size at this time. Nor can we remove the bolding from mods' speech. But we'll contact the developers to let them know this is a wanted feature for the future.

We can only turn the ability off/on for members to create their own chat rooms. We've gone ahead and enabled this feature. I will gently remind members that the creation of your own chatroom requires that you agree to uphold the community guidelines while people are in your room. If you don't want to do this or are uncomfortable in doing it, you shouldn't use this feature.

Thanks!
DocJohn