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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WotC_Mel" data-source="post: 2560947" data-attributes="member: 21569">Okay, I am back to answer what I can. The open house was intended to add to my "to investigate" list -- and it certainly has done that  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> -- so many items I will be cataloging and "going away" for awhile with. That doesnt mean all issues/compaints raised will be addressed to everyone's satisfaction. It means that if it is a doable change we will do it! but not everything is.Okay, so with that caveat, here we go:There is no way to tie 30 chat names to one boards name -- it is a one to one relationship. For all intents and purposes, boards log will be chat log in. And there is no way to "dump" ichat names into the existing boards database. I  know, becuase I wanted to. But ichat's registration is, from every tech I have discussed this with, a "black box." Info goes in, but it is not exportable by any means. I dont know if later revs of ichat continue with this silly practice. As always, with new chat you can register as many screen names as you want.You shouldnt have to, I frequently am double logged in across RPG and ISRP chatspaces. Have you tried it and been unable to?I don't believe that Wizards would agree to make that kind of promise to individual users. It has been vetted by our technical staff and the do not have any heightened security concerns about the software (as, say, they did with IRC). However, you might be able to discuss specific concerns with the owner of the software Akiva (Akiva.com) under the auspices of looking into what chat software you were considering using.I agree that it is too laggy to log in. I am trying to see what can be done about it.I am going to have to get details about what users with problems are experiencing.We've actually considered private rooms. In testing I encourntered some issues with them -- namely that someone creating a private room could kick even moderators, which was not okay. So I asked an Akiva dev to look over this and they said they would. depending on how this goes, this may one day be enabled, however it is not a priority.The "Rooms" tab is exactly what this is for. It should show all avialable rooms, their topics (if they have been given one) and the number of screen names there.The default I believe is to show actions in red.  As an aside, the client came with color options for text and background, though I dont believe it distinguished actions from speech. However, the buttons were removed becuase the exisiting ichat client does not allow colored text and, in fact, colored text is considered room disruption. On ichat this was set for all areas, however, and now it is possible to change this setting local to ISRP. There has been some discussion about wanting colored text (which I gather is possible from CheetaChat) and I'll take this up with the team to revisit if it is still considered too much a potential disruption (like reading white text on yellow backgrounds).If you go into your "Chat options" screen, you can click on a button called "Float" at the bottom. This should give you a resizeable chat screen. I know that many people have had issues with the Chat Options screen having text "whited out" and that is right near the top of things I am trying to have addressed by Akiva.</blockquote>

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