NEW Live Chat - Facebook Style!

Interesting, altho I don't see how to join in the chat?

 

Neither do I. It just shows Who's Online.

 

apparently it only shows those people who are on your friends list so for example if I had Wayne on my friends list he would appear in the Whos online box - so we can chat to him then rather than sending numerous private messages!

 

ah ok, so it's not really a chatroom where you can chat with several people. Only one person at a time?

naw...

 

it is my understanding that that is how it works yes, say i had you on my friends list when i clicked Who's Online it would say PEGGY and I could click on your name and we could chat!

 

Yep I get it. But if I'm going to use a chatroom, I want to chat with more than one person

 

yeah understandable, however there were about 20000000 requests for this on vb.org so can understand why it was done!

 

Absolutely, I'm sure it's very useful for many

 

I personally don't like it, it takes space and will probably not be used by me :p.

 

I don't even see it. Where is it? How do you use it?

 

I'm on the mobile version as I make my way home from a weekend away and I can't wait to see this in action! If it works well, I will be adding it to my site right away!

I've wanted this for awhile now. This should go over well in my community

 

Take a look at the very bottom of your browser window - it should be there.

To use it: You should notice a designated section named "Who's Online". By clicking on that rectangular box, a pop-up "contacts" list will appear - click on any one of the names (once) and a new pop-up box will appear. You can then talk to that person within that window.

 

I am guessing it works just like Facebook's chat. Something that I have never used myself. Lot of empty space though.

Had an idea to create a "Presence Bar" (that is what Facebook calls it) for vBulletin 4.0 so won't post my ideas here but the bar on the bottom is a start. Would be better if it was 100% width. Don't like the margins at Facebook.com either.

 

I agree with you on the width of the bar, Wayne. I'm currently browsing on a 24" widescreen and it looks a bit off.

 

Sounds interesting already Wayne

We'll keep an eye out for that one

 

Great modification indeed!

I just hope this doesn't take away from forum participation.

 

Oh, I didn't even notice it... I have stuff covering part of the bottom of my browser window

 

Question; would it be possible to get sound notifications?

So when you get a new message, a sound goes off.

 

Not sure, Tom. We'll have to look into it.

 

Okay, thanks.

Because when you have open 7 tabs, you don't know what's going on.