Chat by Siropu [Paid] 1.25.1

[Siropu]

I'll see if I can do it by the end of this week. If not, by the end of the next week.

 

[derpyhooves]

Hi Siropu.

I'm on 1.25.0 RC3 and both users and admins experience and issue where using the /quit or /leave command in private rooms causes them to initially leave the room, but if they refresh the page, they are placed back in the room. The only way to leave the room is to use the drop down in the who's chatting list.

This happens on any theme with any level of account permissions.

 

[Siropu]

I think this has been fixed in RC4.

 

[derpyhooves]

Thanks.

I'll slap RC4 in and see if it fixes it.

 

[marquisite]

Try this:
Go to siropu_chat_js template and replace this:

$(document).on('click', '.siropuChatForumActivityBot .internalLink', function(e) {

With:

$(document).on('click', '.internalLink', function(e) {

Thanks for this! A few visitors on my site were becoming frustrated when they accidentally closed the chat from clicking on an internal forum link - so this ought to keep them happy.

 

[John L.]

Hey Siropu,

I'm having an issue on one of my forums where the chat is causing some extreme lag and memory usage errors in XenForo. After disabling the chat it seems the forum returns to normal. Has anyone else experienced this and what are some of the best ways to curb memory usage?

 

[Siropu]

I've responded to your support ticket. The memory error comes from XenForo's bbcode formatter and it's probably because there are too many messages or too lengthy.

 

[beanfan78]

@Siropu just a quick question about uploading images. I know that in the user group permissions I can control image uploads. I have the archive set to delete any messages older than 60 days, but the images don't expire. Is there a way to have the images expire and prune? If not, where are images stored? I want to limit how much storage is reserved for images used in the chat. TIA!

 

[Siropu]

Is there a way to have the images expire and prune?

Currently, no.

If not, where are images stored?

Images are stored in data/Siropu/Chat/Images/

 

[beanfan78]

Currently, no.

Images are stored in data/Siropu/Chat/Images/

Thanks! I can manually purge that then, so it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[marquisite]

@marquisite, if a user doesn't have archive access, then there's no point in sending the alert because user won't be able too see the tagged message if there are too many messages after it in the chat window. In the next release I will do a check to see if user has archive permissions before sending alert.

In the future could there be a way to directly display a tagged message even without view archive permissions? Perhaps something with an Xenforo overlay like what I've mocked up in the attached image ?



Another way to show tagged messages without archive permission might be 'limited' archive access where the keyword field is unavailable and auto set to '@[username]', where [username] is the person's forum username.

 

[Siropu]

I don't know what approach I'll take on 2.0. We'll see.

 

[Siropu]

Siropu updated Chat by Siropu with a new update entry:

Bug Fixes

This is the final release, which fixes all known bugs.

If you are upgrading from 1.24.x or lower, please disable the add-on before uploading all the files and starting the upgrade process. If you have outdated chat templates, make sure you revert them back.

P.S. The Chat for XenForo 1.x is now on feature freeze and no new features will be added until version 2.0 for XenForo 2.0

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Nuno]

Hi @Siropu

Do you have any list of features/ideas for the next version you can share?

Thanks

 

[Siropu]

I can't share anything right now.

 

[OttoBomb]

Really like the chat module, it's the best I've used to date.

I do have a feature request, it appears to be simple so hopefully can be an easy add. I'd like this setting to be able to be zero, currently it seems to be locked at 5 (see below).


Essentially I'd like any new people entering the chat not to see any of the old messages.

 

[Siropu]

That won't do what you want. Setting it to 0 won't work.

 

[OttoBomb]

I'd like to limit how many messages are displayed in the chat when the chat loads to zero. Is there another way to accomplish this?

 

[Siropu]

There isn't. This can be a feature in 2.0

 

[OttoBomb]

There isn't. This can be a feature in 2.0

Great! Looking forward to it.