Mini Chat Area / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page Mini Chat Area.

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Teratomorph 24 Oct 2016 21:31

Seeing as nobody has said anything here, i thought i might say something, i have a few questions:

1. Do you need to install anything else (software, programs, etc.)?
2. What are the limits of what you can do with this?
3. Can you host/use this on any wikidot site?
4. Is it possible to put a comment limit to prevent spam?
5. Can you make it so that only a certain amount of people can join?
6. If somebody spams the chat room will it break?

I'm really curious about more details on how this works.

Re: Post

leiger 25 Oct 2016 02:14

Hello,

The instructions on how to implement this are found on this page.

It works by creating a page in the chatbox category, which is why setting up auto-numbering on the category is essential.

Only users with access to the chatbox category will be able to post a message - but there is no comment limit.

It is unlikely that someone will 'break' the chat room - and even if something unexpected were to happen, it'd only affect that person (no-one else) and would be fixed by refreshing the page.

There would be no straight-forward way to limit the number of people that can 'join' the chat.

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Re: Post

Teratomorph 25 Oct 2016 18:40

I see, guess i should have taken the time to read the post.
Thanks anyway!

Battlesquid 01 May 2017 01:21

Erm, not sure if anybody sees this, but…is this customizable with CSS?

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Yes, it is

Mai Selph 01 May 2017 21:56

Check under the "Advanced Use" header, there is a link to all of the chat's css, and the names of classes it uses.