HOW TO CHAT
We are supporting both a pop-out chat and a full-page chat.
If you want to give your chat some extra real estate but be able to dismiss it when you’re not using it. The pop-out chat works for both private chats and the network chat.
Your posts are grouped together and will appear under the same timestamp, name and avatar. You’ll see those timestamps after 1 minute of inactivity. This will probably be a real confusion-buster if you’ve left your computer for an hour or more and have come back to conversation(s).
When you want to privately chat with someone, you can simply click on their member name (either in the member list or in network chat), and a new private chat window will open up.
If you’ve had prior conversations with that person (in the same browser), they’ll show up; you can continue where you left off.
If you’re the recipient of a private chat, a new pane will open up on the left when someone starts a private chat with you.
At any point in time, you can pop out a private chat window and even close it out (x) if you wish. The history of the chat will stick around, so don’t feel hesitant about closing out private chats.
If you’re in a private chat and click on a member’s name, you’ll open up their profile page, which can be handy if you need to, for example, go further into a conversation and start a private email message.
The number of chat windows you have open will depend on the size of your browser window. If you have a 50-inch browser (how awesome would that be?) you can go absolutely insane with the private chats. If not, you might want to use the pop-out version.
Links will be preserved when you paste them in, and they will open in a new browser window, making it easy for everyone to quickly share links.
Want to copy and paste parts of the chat? You can select, copy, and paste chat content.
One other detail that you may like about chat is that you’ll see a small notification badge when in private conversation panes that are minimized. It will display the number of posts you’ve received from that person since you minimized that pane.
Chat will work on an iPad or iPhone (as well as many other phones and devices).
We hope you will enjoy the chat rooms.
Hope to see you in chat!
