Chat is the real time, stateful web chat that's a part of every Stack Exchange site.
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Rooms between asker & answerer are being deleted, despite holding the answer
When I created a chat room for a question, I helped the user solve all of their problems there.
If another user were to come to the question and have the same problems, they'd click the chat link, ...
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Issue with time logging in Chat [closed]
I found an issue on http://chat.stackoverflow.com chat server issues with displaying time log. can anyone please check it? I don't know exactly what happened.
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Chat suspension - no hard rule thus subjects to abuse?
I was having lunch, after I returned, I saw a little message on my screen and it reads something like this:
Your account has been temporarily suspended by a moderator and cannot chat for 6 days.
...
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Display bug in beta sites chat [duplicate]
I've noticed that sometimes, when messages with tags in them get starred, the display of them in the star list gets buggy and weird.
Take some time to visit this meta to help us decide if we ...
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Can we increase the limit of chat stars available per day?
It's 15:39 and I've already used up my star allowance for the day. This is a regular occurrence.
Why is the star limit set at what it is? Could this limit be raised to a slightly larger, yet still ...
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How to request for chat on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
If I want to chat with a particular user who is on SO, how can I send them a request for chat?
Is there a procedure to invite someone to chat?
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Allow entering a URL as the target room when moving messages in chat
When moving messages from one chatroom to another, there is a popup to enter the target room name. After entering a substring of the room name, a list of matching rooms appear, and we select the ...
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What's the workflow for chat-suspended users to improve?
A user was on the receiving-end of a 30 minute chat suspension. One of his messages was flagged, and as a mod, when I validated the flag, that auto-suspended them for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, ...
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Take a pic of yourself and upload it right away [closed]
Cool feature request: use the getUserMedia() API to take a picture using the webcam and upload it right away.
Sometimes I want to share my bearded face, or a cool thing hanging around in my office. ...
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1answer
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How do I tag a question in chat?
No really. I can't figure out how to do this. Nor can I find it on meta.
http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/9253971#9253971
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I'm cursed! Well.. kind of [duplicate]
In the chat room I was writing messages asking to close vote something when I noticed my tag had become flat without a shadow like so:
Instead mine were flat!
But everyone else's was normal..
...
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How do I add a feed for a tag in a chat room?
If I want, say, all [lord-of-the-rings] posts from scifi.SE to go to my chat room, what do I do in the add feed bit? What URL do I paste there?
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support for oneboxing OpenGraph data in the chats
I had originally asked for ThinkGeek products to be oneboxed and the answer provided made me wonder why support for oneboxing OpenGraph data in the chats does not exist?
At the moment we get ...
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Why do I keep being made a room owner for rooms made from moved messages?
In chat when a moderator moves messages out of the room into their own room it seems to be making the owners of the initial chat room owners of the new room.
This behavior can be seen in this ...
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Could we please update the link to the Wheel of Blame on the Tavern?
Following the link to the Wheel of Blame script welded on to the Tavern currently results in this:
Could the linked script be updated per the gentleman's request? The script is widely available on ...
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Moving a comments thing twice to chat [duplicate]
I recently helped a user out, and decided to move it to chat. When I went back to the question and read over the comments, I noticed I could move it over to chat again. Shouldn't this be disabled once ...
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Could a method of preventing flag spam on chat be implemented?
I was wondering if there could be an addition of some kind of system on chat that would prevent a user from flagging for X amount of time in the instance that their last Y flags in Z time had been ...
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Editing a starred post in chat breaks display for user who starred it
Steps to reproduce:
User A posts a message
User B stars it, the star next to the post appears yellow
User A edits the post
The display of the star in User B's view becomes black, as if they haven't ...
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Mobile chatting doesn't clear pings
I've been chatting from mobile today (with my Galaxy SIII), seems like when people ping me, it doesn't matter whether I send messages, or even specifically ping them back, the notification doesn't get ...
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Formatting in chat room description
Can Markdown formatting be added to chat descriptions?
Sometimes bold text would be nice, to highlight something in the description.
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1answer
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Improper usage of chat in SO?
It's not the first time that I receive chat invitations for job offering or asking help privately. This time, I kindly offered the user to ask a question on SO, to which he replied that he can't ...
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When a chat post is edited by another user, it incorrectly shows the editor as the author
Here's this message from Sathya:
It usually shows like this in the rooms when you're in another chat room:
I edited the post to change a word repetition that sounded weird (Can you tell I'm ...
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Can we have a reply button in comments too? [duplicate]
Can we have a reply button as in chat along with the upvote and flag in comments followed by posts.
See this chat :Here we have a reply button
And this comments under a post:
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1answer
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Can I start a chat with a specific user?
Sometimes I find questions or answers by users and I would like to ask the user a specific question that doesn't (yet) fit as a full SO question.
Adding a comment with @username doesn't necessarily ...
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Finding a SE user from a chat user whose parent user is on a dead site
At http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3786, the "parent user" link links to a user page on a dead site, and that URL redirects to the Area 51 proposal page for that site. Is there a way to see ...
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Don't invite people when moving their messages
Every time we move people's messages to some recycle bin/trash can room, they're invited to this room, thus leading to sarcastic comments such as this one.
Should these invitations be disabled? I ...
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Can there be a method for achieving reputation in chat?
I, and many others, spend a lot of time answering questions in the chat.
This however doesn't get reflected on our reputation on the main site.
Can there be method for awarding reputation in the ...
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Can we get oneboxing for Kickstarter in chat?
I am seeing more and more links to kickstarter projects in chat, at least on The Bridge, and I saw that Kickstarter videos gets embeded when linked on Facebook.
I was wondering if we could get some ...
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Can we make chat login much smoother?
Currently, when logging into chat, it takes a rather long process to get in. The global auth doesn't always seem to work, and I have to go through a ton of steps to get in:
First, I see this:
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Add a Gold Badge for Chat, complete the series
For some reason or another chatting is encouraged by two badges:
bronze talkative
and
silver outspoken
But no gold one to complete the series, why is that?
Chat rooms are a great place to ...
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Gist oneboxing in chat is broken again.
I attempted to paste a link to a Gist in chat:
http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9098399#9098399
As you can see, neither URL is working, even though they both should:
Gist support ...
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Cannot login in skeptics chat with MyOpenID account
I tried to log me in into the skeptics chat, but the site simply
does not accept my login without any error indication, but
redirecting me to the exact same page.
Some specifications:
Firefox 20.0, ...
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Link in chat message not expanded?
I was just trying out chat for the first time and because I wanted to make a comment on an answer I started my message with a link to that answer. I typed: ...
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How do you change your chat username on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I changed my username on Stack Overflow to an actual name, but chat still says user203948230948 or whatever. How can I fix this? I tried logging out and in but to no avail.
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User does not have a profile on main site and can't be super-pinged
I'm trying to ping this user on SU.
I write:
@@[email protected] Thanks for your retagging efforts. (…)
I get:
kalina does not have a profile on superuser.com
Well duh:
What's ...
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1answer
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Chat avatar list places single avatar on last row instead of previous row
I've noticed on numerous occasions the list of avatars in a chatroom will display like the following when a new user joins the room.
As you can see there is plenty of space for the avatar to be on ...
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Reduce how finnicky YouTube oneboxing is in chat
I recently posted a link to this YouTube video in chat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ieFVN-PKLSA
Here's the link to the message in chat that didn't onebox:
...
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Is swearing in chat OK? [duplicate]
According to Jeff Atwood, "Expletives are not acceptable behavior on meta or any other Stack Overflow site."
My question is: to what degree (if any) does this apply in chat as well as on meta or ...
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Remove user validation of chat flags
Back in the heady days of 2010 when the chat system was being refined, it definitely made sense to have user validation of chat flags.
At that point I'm guessing we had a dozen or so moderators ...
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1answer
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I want to report inappropriate remarks made in comment and in the chat by the user
I came across a user who posted inappropriate remarks to the answer provided by me.
Below is the link to the chat. I feel that the comments are inappropriate and anybody who knows hindi language ...
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Can we have a more prominent chat room description?
Many rooms include often-repeated or important information in the room description:
PHP
Discussion for all things PHP - You don't have to ask whether someone
is here or can help. Just tell ...
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1answer
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The site-specific chat rooms have lost their site's favicons. Could they be restored? [closed]
Over the last few hours, the SE chat rooms appear to have reverted to the SE favicon (). For example, the Root Access chat room, which is linked to Super User previously had SU's icon (). This seems ...
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1answer
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All my starred chat rooms aren't showing up on the main SE chat website
So, I started using chat today and starred the Minecraft Talk room on Arqade and the Python room on Stack Overflow. Yet when I go to the main list it only shows Minecraft Talk, and I can't even find ...
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1answer
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Is this intended (* in chats)
It is stated in the stackoverflow FAQ: http://chat.stackoverflow.com/faq#formatting
*italic* or _italic_
**bold** or __bold__
so when I type three * followed by a word followed by another three * I ...
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1answer
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Can we have a kinder, gentler *THUD*? [duplicate]
The current notification sound for the Super User chat, while rather effective can often quite startling, especially when you're doing something else, or just not expecting it. Could we have some way ...
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Localize transcript timestamps
When in chat, time is displayed in a localized format. This is nice - I know what time it is where I am. When looking at transcripts, though, the site displays them in system time. This is not very ...
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Oneboxing Wikipedia includes processing instructions like __NOTOC__
Someone oneboxed the Wikipedia Poblano article in chat, and it showed up with NOTOC in front:
__NOTOC__ is a MediaWiki processing instruction, of course, and really ought not show up in chat. ...
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Useless ellipsis is useless in chat
In chat an ellipsis is displayed to display more avatars in the list however sometimes when you click it it only expands to one extra avatar which is kinda... useless :-)
Not really a huge bug, but ...
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Add functionality to mobile chat
I love chatting, but sometimes I have to move around, which means I must face the mobile interface for chat. The experience is extremely frustrating. I have mocked up a relatively simple change to the ...
