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Is a “Never tell your password to anyone” message in chat really necessary?
In almost every chat window I open, there's this fairly obvious statement:
Never tell your [password/credit card/social security/etc] to anyone.
Are there some standards for chat functionality that ...
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Should marking a chat message as spam automatically ignore the user?
Two typical features of chat rooms are, the ability to ignore another user (hide all of their messages) and to mark a particular message as spam.
Should marking a user's message as spam automatically ...
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Chat arrangement question: Left or right?
I'm building a small chat. Now I see but in other chats (whatsapp, facebook mobile chat, sms ...) that the arrangement is always the same:
Left: the chat partner.
right: myself
Why is that?
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What should I do with huge “smileys” in chat?
I'm reprogramming a really bad chat software and I'm don't know how I can adapt huge so called "smileys" from that old chat without causing a bad user experience?
Because I think the space between ...
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Unread message count in the list of conversations
Is it a good idea (or how useful it is) to show a number of unread messages for each conversation when user enters page with the list of conversations? Would it be enough to just indicate that certain ...
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Should chat users be informed when the other user closes chat?
In an application which allows 2 people to chat with each other in indiviual windows,
if user 1 closes the chat window, should user 2 be notified that user 1 closed the chat? (e.g User 1 Closed Chat ...
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Is it necessary to store chat conversation?
We are building an application which is like a social network. We also have a message system and chat system. Now, there is an argument between us on whether should we save the chat conversation for ...
