Ayoo, mi homies. Welcome back to anothah thread by ya' boi midsmanxeph. I'm comin' at ya' live with 'nathah 'dea. Y'all stay wid me.

So, I really hate seeing threads asking if the chat is down. Here's something we should have done awhile ago. On the http://dollars-bbs.org/chat.html page, let's include a sort of online checker. I guess I could say ping, but I don't know how Reltair wants to do it. Since ICMP(ping) isn't possible with JavaScript, I don't feel like recommending him installing a PHP dependent script. That's straight fucked up. Here's a pretty nice example I found that checks for open TCP. http://jsfiddle.net/GSSCD/203/

Let's just make it so on that page it shows whether the chat is offline or online. If it's offline, maybe something else is appended like, "Please do not make a thread" if it's offline. This way, mother fuckers won't be making threads.

Good idea? Y'all brothas best leave some feedback.

>>1
Good idea, but I also think we need something added into posting that checks for posts that use "is the chat down", "is drrrchat down" etc, and disallows the topic from being posted.

>>2 Yeah, that'd be pretty easy to check for in perl.

>>3
With a new BBS in place, we could add so much protection from spammers, hackers, etc while keeping the current, simplistic look.

>>3 http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html#Using-regular-expressions-in-Perl

mode_message/templates.pl
would contain a constant of
use constant S_CHAT => 'No chat discussion.';

kareha.pl would contain
sub post_stuff($$$$$$$$$$$$$)
{
...
make_error(S_NOCHAT) if $comment =~ /chat/

fucking hell the constant is named wrong wtf was i thinking
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html#Using-regular-expressions-in-Perl

mode_message/templates.pl
would contain a constant of
use constant S_CHAT => 'No chat discussion.';

kareha.pl would contain
sub post_stuff($$$$$$$$$$$$$)
{
...
make_error(S_CHAT) if $comment =~ /chat/

>>4 Right. There would be so much new code. All of your old suggestions could be applied, too.

Dude, the chat I used that you said used your source or..whatever it was, the host/programmer wants to see if you'd be willing to help us out on it, if he gives you database/ftp access to it?

>>8 I don't know, man. I'd have to see what you guys are doing first before I can say for sure.

Well he's busy and can't do anything, and it's basically the same as we had it, minus some errors I want fixed ASAP. One, the icons/bubbles won't some on some.

So far, this. http://infinet.cyberconnects.org/

>>11 Oh, I see you guys are still using the old drrr-like-chat script.

There's actually a lot of stuff I wanted seen done to it when he was working on it. IE, when doing @name it shows it privately, and if you do more than one @name @name 2, etc in one post, it shows it privately.

It could work fairly cool.

Say you did this in one post:

@name 1 hello @name 2 no.

It'd show in one post only the posts connected to their name if done in that order. If done in an order where all names are at the start of the post, the entire post is shown to those names only.

>>12
Yeah, using that.

>>13 Yeah, that would be pretty easy.
>>14 You shouldn't be using this trash, man.

if he does give you database access and FTP access, you could actually upload a new version, couldn't you?

>>16 I could, but I meant to say that drrr-like-chat is just trash.

>>17
Yeah, but that is the only source to the drrrchat at all isn't it?

Also secondly, how tedious would it be for any programmer to make the chat sort of RPG like? Posting gives points, points level you up, each level gives you a certain bit of "coin". Those coin allows you to "buy" icons. It'd award posting.

>>18 I found this node.js durarara chat on github just now. https://github.com/oddui/realtime_chat
There's always the option of making your own chat entirely.

Would you actually be willing to help us out? I feel stuff would get done better by your hands than his, and he will provide the server space.

>>21 Sure, if it was a cooperative effort and I wouldn't be doing everything myself, then it'd be alright.

So, I don't really get why it's not working but if anyone needs help with something simple I'll be glad to lend a hand.

Alright we should try to discuss this at a meeting in a Drr chat or something as well. Is there any way we can all contact each other through the Drrr chats?

Besides the one that is down?

^