New Chat Site?

[Nevine]

We're getting this change, there's nothing we can do about it, and WotC is not actually obligued to listen to our complaints/suggestions - let alone demands.

So in the meantime, threatening to pack up and leave does nothing but undermine the effort to secure alterations to a battered chat client. Childish temper tantrums and empty threats only cause the 'top' brass to toughen up and do it their way.

Because..if someone is beating the stuffing out of you, you should just shut up and take it since they are bigger and stronger. Okay..

Anyway.

I appreciate you coming here and explaining things, Mel. You didn't have to and you are likely swamped with actual bugs/issues with the client. All I can ask really (and except a possible consideration for) is an attempt at some description functionality for the ISRP rooms. The profile screen is too small and will probably be limited to a very small amount of characters.

 

[Bhryn Astairre]

I'm going to wait and see what happens before making any motions either way.

I'm not happy about the new accounts we have to make (read: name space on boards = a no no) , the lack of description and the extremely clumsy java we'll be using, but I'm not going to jump before seeing whats going on.

On another note, I'm going to have to pre-warn those who don't come here regularly anymore on my list so they dont get a horrible shock when they come back after the summer and find they can't get into chat

 

[Qijdi_Goldwing]

What a Stupid Decision

After over 9 years of steady patronage I must say that this has been my favorite chat site also... to be able to use a stand alone interface with separate pm windows and easy room jumping like cheetachat has been a real bonus. I have been forced to sit in a chair most of those 9 years from a bad car wreck and Wizzies has seen me through untold pain and anguish and suffering and misery with much laughter and even more entertainment. DigiChat is absolutely one of the worst interfaces. No resizing of the windo, no dessies and so on.. If you would consider using SigmaChat I would be inclined to endorse you again - at least somewhat... Many of the people I have met in recent years are in the Wizards community and we have had much fun. This arrogance and obstance in stupidity of making such a decision to use DigiChat without any say by the people who use it is ludricrous and just goes to show that, like everything else in America...... Hasbro is going out and can't be trusted anymore... I am so disappointed and even slightly hurt by you peeps stupidity... This move actually required me make a username for the boards ( something I have never bothered from lack of interest in one concern ) just to add a voice... After things become final I will most likely move to Dykal.net or something... at least we will still be able to get chat scripts and stuff... I simply REFUSE to recreate all my usernames again. Dry Rot... Guilded with Lies and Deception is what it is... Master Li said it best. I cannot help but say how much I have enjoyed iChat with Wizzies and the clean environment and understand that it is no longer in production and there could possibly be security problems inthe future, but really folks... buy it from GlobalChat and make use of it still.... They may have canned the project but the rights are there. Sun Java is the pitz.. Dykal might use it with SigmaChat but they have at least been decent enough to allow us to be able to see what we type in a window of our own chosen size... You peeps should know how it is when the room is full and txt is flying fast.... it is even more difficult to keep up when one has to squint.

I would be most pleased to resend my decision to leave after the change and still tell people about your wonderful service and our beloved place to get away from the despicable world outside.. I don't know what I would have done without being able to sit in front of this screen all day because my body hurt so I could not move from said chair... Goldy & I have cared for and watched over the site all this time - - asking nothing but to exist and have fun... Now you peeps have to go and proooooove how despicable things can be in the world... Please forgive my harsh words but I am most upset and am finding it most difficult to be nice about the whole thing. Besides, I do not hide when the truth needs to be told. Obviously you peeps are showing that you do not really give a figg's-stem about whether or not you have a chat at all... this will also preclude me and anyone else I know from purchasing any Hasbro product henceforth in protest. Unless we absolutely have no choice and then many will just do without.... THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING FOLKS!!!! You hear the voices in these threads screaming for your blood and better take heed... Business is business and it is supported by the consumer.... not the company. The company provides the service the consumers request and/or require..... We may not pay for this chat directly but all our money we put into your games and other products DOES.... THINK ABOUT IT!!! ---HARD... For now I have nothing more to say. I had to have a BIIIIIIG drink just to calm enough to say this as nicely as I am. Make the proper decision and prosper, or turn your back on us and see what happens... there is no other way.


Qij.

 

[Qijdi_Goldwing]

Oh yes...... and one other mention.....

At least on the " OtHeR site I mentioned.....your SN is the same for the boards and for the chat........ This..... is something I would also suggest for future reference - it makes it tons easier and aeons less in hassle...

Qij.

 

[Qijdi_Goldwing]

One MORE Thing..... To quote the ancient phrase...

DigiChat is horrible with security... It is enough to have to lock it down and firewall without peeps coming in and messing up the place.

I know it's less bandwidth and smaller package but the cost to security is high and all but 10% of features are gone or severely limited... Are you trying to get rid of those who go to the stores and line your pockets with the Hasbro products WE buy?????? You may say you provide this site for free as a gratituity? - but it's not free... We Pay for it indirectly...... Remember that please...

I would not care to mess about with mine own machine like that...... Tch Tch Tch

Or My Customer Base...

Qij.

 

[Qijdi_Goldwing]

I have received information concerning that the DigiChat comment is incorrect and ChatSpace is the current choice so I resend some of my statements.... I still will hold my final decision until then. and many of my statements still apply. This is some relief..... And I will investigate the software. Making furthering comments thereafter.


Qij

 

[Kathryn_aka_Kat]

It occurred to me that I ought to report there is a tenuous monetary link for WotC between the free-to-use chat and their products. I played D&D back in 1st edition and then my tabletop gaming group moved to GURPS. After I played in chat a while I realized how many players were stating things in D&D terms (yes, even though not a requirement of the site) and how much D&D had changed, so I started buying the books. Core books, Faerun books, drow books, the new Complete books... and really all because of chat.

Of course, I'm sure that's a very small percentage of their business!

 

[Dontella]

Let's Clarify things, see if we can't bring this back to something more Concrete. ..

1. The Software has, and is purchased. It will be implemented, because it has already been paid for. For all the likes and dislikes, we are to have Java..

2. Suggestions, to see if it might be made better?

A. Descriptions. This is a absolutely essential and critical.

B. Characters and Message Boards. Is it absolutely critical to recreate every single character we own?

C. Log in Time, and the lack of Java support in XP-Pro.

Cystuni has also provided some ideas and suggestions as to how this could be made better..

We thank you Mel, for you time. If you read this again, is it at all possible to implement some of the ideas and suggestions that have been named?

 

[JudeSedai]

I'd like to point out that when I logged on, there was a list of rooms that you could double-click on to join, and it told you how many people were in each room.

In any event, I'd also like to see the following in the new system.
- Descriptions - This is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing, I think
- /think command might be nice
- bold, underline, and italics


And on an odd note, is there any way that we can have unrecognized characters in boards SNs (ie, spaces) replaced by an underscore (_) or something when folks try to log into chat? (yes, my very rudimentary knowledge of coding is showing here) Or just eliminate the space on logon to chat, as if it's not even there?

 

[Cystuni]

it's not the seperate screen I want. it's the room list in another frame. just a bit easier, I don't have to take my attention away from the people I'm talking to in a busy room to find a quieter one.