Dr. Dot rolls up his sleeves...
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Originally posted by Keith Waye
Amen to that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If I didn't make it clear, I'd like to now: this hasn't been one of my more pleasurable experiences with Aural Moon. I'm glad it's over. Now let us address Keithie's concern's regarding Shout:
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Now let's look into getting back the people who can no longer participate in the day to day banter because of the demise of The Shout Box. For example jnighting, artboy, the spanish lads and Steady Stan and Artemis.
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A worthwhile task indeed...certainly more enjoyable than cleaning up after the subject of the recent ire around here.
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I know that there is a Bandwidth issue here but I'm wondering if this might not be as bad as it seems. The Black Box was taken away immediately after the 5th anniversary party during which it was, understandably, HAMMERED. The way I see it and the way people who have been affected by this have explained it to me (Yes, it's true...people do talk to me ) the problem arises in that the Chat Room is Too obtrusive for when they are in the office. It can get VERY busy and it's difficult to concentrate on work with all that activity going on. What they need is an area that they can look at occasionally and comment from time to time should they wish to do so.
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Well, I personally don't KNOW precisely how much of an impact the shoutbox will have on our bandwidth usage, but I suspect it'll be fairly significant. Exactly HOW significant has yet to be seen.
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If that area was away from the Home page and refreshed every 5-10 minutes (or some other convenient time period) and not every time someone posted, would that have a less harmful effect on the Bandwidth issue? I'm guessing that the code for the original Shout Box is still in the system somewhere and perhaps with a bit of tweaking from someone in the know could be adapted to work in a way that will suit both our beloved and much missed moonies and the Hosts.
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Yes, it would likely have a beneficial effect on bandwidth usage if we were to move it to a lighter page. However, I'm afraid that doing that will have a serious negative impact on the viability of the shoutbox. Part of the draw of the shoutbox is that it's there when you go to the main site. You can keep the site up, still keep in contact, and not have the SPChat window popping up on top of what you're trying to do. Updating it every 5-10 minutes might not be a bad idea, however...although it's mighty tough to keep even the most extended of real-time conversations going with that sort of delay.
It's a balancing act that would impress even the Flying Wallendas.
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As a matter of interest.............the "other chat room" that appears on the left hand side of the Home page has a lot of the attributes that are required here. Could THAT be adapted? It is less obtrusive, gives people the ability to say whether they're working, lurking, away from desk etc. I remember that there were issues with it but maybe a bit of tweaking could resolve those.
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It's on our plate. It had to be pushed aside, however, due to more ... pressing matters.
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OK Boys and Girls, fire away with the "Dork" comments. I make no apology for posting this as I know it's something that people out there would like to see.
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Now I wouldn't do that. The only people that receive that sort of invective from me are maturational children that have a sense of entitlement that exceed the standard norms of civil society.
Roger -Dot- Lee