Administrators rawTOP Posted May 23, 2017 Author Administrators Report Share Posted May 23, 2017 A number of improvements were made today. Most notably was quick reply – a separate entry area where you just enter something and hit return. That was high on a lot of people's list. Right now I'm showing both. Tomorrow I'll probably make it so you can toggle between the two. I also improved the Who's In Chat section to break down the people who are active (<5 min) and ones that are semi-inactive (5-15 min). The semi-inactive ones may come back since if you look at another tab in your browser you don't ping the server for updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators rawTOP Posted May 25, 2017 Author Administrators Report Share Posted May 25, 2017 No comments in almost 2 days. I suppose that's a good thing. Here's what I'm working on… 1-on-1 Chat – I moved a bunch of code around yesterday (and messed up chat for a half hour or so in the process), so that group chat can share code with 1-on-1. That means when something is fixed or implemented in one, it will probably be implemented in the other. I also more or less figured out how I'll do the "you've got a message" feature. Stats & Location – Under each profile pic / screen name I want to have two lines. One with general stats and the other with location. It'll look something like this… rawTOP 49 ➖ ↗️ ? Harlem, 35 mi. So that 2nd line would read 49, neg, vers top, on PrEP. (The neg emoji would be a fully readable color – not something I can accomplish here). I'll use a biohazard symbol ☣️ for unmedicated poz, and a plus sign ➕ for poz on ARVs, and a grayed out biohazard for poz and unknown whether on ARVs (not something I can show here since it requires CSS). And you'll be able to specify whether certain stats are shown or not. I'm also thinking of letting users specify up to 4 other emoji that describe them or what they're into. So I might add ???? (for piggy, breeding, fisting, bondage). Then I'll also let people specify locations. They will specify a precise location (so I can calculate distances), and then they'll specify a city or well-known neighborhood. The location part will one of the things I need to build for Cumdump.Network (which I hope to have up by end of summer). I actually sorta built a lot of it a couple years ago, but need to rework it for my current programming environment. The stats part will probably get up quickly. The location part will come after 1-on-1 chat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators rawTOP Posted May 31, 2017 Author Administrators Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Another update… To me the biggest issue is that there aren't enough people in chat. So I've now changed things so the number of people in chat shows next to the link to chat. It takes a moment to load, but it does eventually come up. Hopefully that will help attract people to chat. Apparently the chat is so similar to what you have in the main forums some people initially think it's just another forum and not a live chat. Not sure what to do about that. I mean it's clearly marked Chat. Next, I'm noticing people don't understand the idea of quoted replies. They're putting their response within the quote portion. Or they don't add any response – they just have the quoted portion. I'll keep trying different things until I see that stop. And lastly, I'm still working on adding new features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GoodExercise Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 The counter is good. Site traffic seems to be down. The old chat drove traffic. The new chat seems static. Why can't we have a traditional chat window? I have clicked in and clicked back out, because there seems to be no or very slow movement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators rawTOP Posted May 31, 2017 Author Administrators Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 36 minutes ago, GoodExercise said: The counter is good. Site traffic seems to be down. The old chat drove traffic. The new chat seems static. Why can't we have a traditional chat window? I have clicked in and clicked back out, because there seems to be no or very slow movement. "Traditional chat window" – You mean one where all the messages are in a static pane with a scroll bar? That doesn't really work on mobile and about half the people here are on mobile. That whole interface came from the days when chat was powered by Flash which required a static box/window/frame (whatever you want to call it). But Flash is dead, and mobile is the future, so things have to adapt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronetbus Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 Thank you rawTOP for all the work you are doing to get chat going again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleazebugga Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 RawTOP you are amazing. Thanks for all the time you are spending on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cumwhore22 Posted May 31, 2017 Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 can be in in prove to find men where i live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verscumdumpwhore Posted June 1, 2017 Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 The chat improvements are great, it's cool to watch it develop. Thanks! Gj! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators rawTOP Posted June 1, 2017 Author Administrators Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 12 hours ago, cumwhore22 said: can be in in prove to find men where i live That is my goal. But gotta take one step at a time. But you'll see the beginnings of that pretty soon. I want to show the location for each user. Initially I'll just use whatever location they've entered here on the forum, but then I'll give them the ability to specify a lat/long. I won't show the exact lat/long – just use it to show "miles away", and I'll use it to do a lookup to find neighborhoods / cities near them. They'll choose one and that will be stored. Those neighborhoods are part of a huge place database. So if I say I'm in Mount Morris Park that's part of a hierarchy of places. So Mount Morris Park is part of Central Harlem, which is part of Upper Manhattan, which is part of New York County, which is part of New York State, which is part of the US. So people can browse the hierarchy once you pick a place on that hierarchy. I'll let you specify multiple places. So someone might say they live in Manhattan, but they spend weekends in the summer out in The Pines on Fire Island. Or you could specify a location for a trip you're planning, or a place you get to frequently on business (even if you don't know the dates yet). So yes, I absolutely want to do more hookup-oriented features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PissPigBrooklyn Posted June 2, 2017 Report Share Posted June 2, 2017 On 6/1/2017 at 7:54 AM, rawTOP said: That is my goal. But gotta take one step at a time. But you'll see the beginnings of that pretty soon. I want to show the location for each user. Initially I'll just use whatever location they've entered here on the forum, but then I'll give them the ability to specify a lat/long. I won't show the exact lat/long – just use it to show "miles away", and I'll use it to do a lookup to find neighborhoods / cities near them. They'll choose one and that will be stored. Those neighborhoods are part of a huge place database. So if I say I'm in Mount Morris Park that's part of a hierarchy of places. So Mount Morris Park is part of Central Harlem, which is part of Upper Manhattan, which is part of New York County, which is part of New York State, which is part of the US. So people can browse the hierarchy once you pick a place on that hierarchy. I'll let you specify multiple places. So someone might say they live in Manhattan, but they spend weekends in the summer out in The Pines on Fire Island. Or you could specify a location for a trip you're planning, or a place you get to frequently on business (even if you don't know the dates yet). So yes, I absolutely want to do more hookup-oriented features. Hookup features are good. Thank you rawTOP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cumwhore22 Posted June 2, 2017 Report Share Posted June 2, 2017 yes RAWTOP look forward to the better chat area to show where i am for men to use me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrypighole Posted June 5, 2017 Report Share Posted June 5, 2017 I used to be able to copy a link in my browser for a video clip I was watching on BZ's BBPorn site, and then paste it into my chat box. That doesn't seem to work anymore. Any hints? This was particularly useful in 1-on-1 chat. And thanks for all of the improvements. It's looking really good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators rawTOP Posted June 8, 2017 Author Administrators Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 I've been working behind the scenes on making it so people can enter personal details. I figured if I did it, I might as well do more than the few details that are required for chat. At the bottom of the chat page there's now a link to a page where you can update your details. I'm away in DC for Pride starting tomorrow. When I get back I'll take the next step and then those details will start showing up under the person's avatar in chat. But if you look at the list of things you can enter it's pretty exhaustive. It should be obvious that this is bigger than chat. –that my end goal is really to have full-fledged hookup sites. Given the architecture of what I'm building, details about you as a person are on one input form, and the persona you're projecting are on another input form. But even the chat - the reason why it doesn't look like the old chat, is because I was building something bigger than chat. It's the structure for a messaging system. It's a forum thread. It's a social site (like Twitter or Tumblr). There a lot of details to work out for each of those, but I'm trying to build things that are flexible and reusable in other contexts. This should be an exciting year if I can just get the programming completed… 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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