Richard's Animorphs Forum
RAF Section => Suggestions / Feedback & Issues => Topic started by: Coal Kropotkin on April 25, 2009, 02:12:15 PM
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As of late there seems to be quite a bit of lag in chat. More than normal.
I was wondering if Richard would ever consider using userplane to host RAFchat.
It's a great chat server, not to mention it has Video+sound.
I love RAFchat. Honestly I feel oddly patriotic to it.
I would never have used RAF if not for the chat.
But, like the blog said. People seem to not be using it anymore. Well, that could be the lag. Or the fact that we use skype for video+voice. Well, userplane tends to have very little lag, and a great video+voice set up. You can prevent people from seeing. Or broadcast to anyone in the room. It allows individual users to make there own rooms. (Or of course Richard could ax this feature)
It allows private chat windows. It has individual fonts. (I will REALLYREALLYREALLY miss my font :()
It's a kind of staple for me. Almost every site I've ever used has used userplane.
I just think that it would help with more people using it. And it's free as far as I know, so to see if people liked it. You could have both options for right now. If people didn't like it get rid of it. If they do... I'll miss RAFchat more than most if it ever does go.
Well, those are just my thoughts.
I hope you consider it, Richard. :)
Thanks,
~Cody/Broken
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I second that motion, anything other than what's used now. I don't use RAFchat because of the lag
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Agreed, if it's as good as you say.
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Any comments from a moderator? Or an admin would be nice... *Cough* Hint hint *Cough*
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... Damn. Guess no one liked the idea. :(
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I like the idea!! i just don't know if it will work for Richard, because it might not have the ability to tell how many people are online. (like at the bottom of this page)
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I'm not sure if it would allow that feature. But, it does tell you how many people are in the room. And exactly who they are. It also allows for actual profile. Which is really cool. Just a little bio and a picture, though. My main reason for wanting it for RAF is the lag issue. And the Video chat! *WANTS the video chat!!!*
But, honestly. Wouldn't losing that little link at the bottom of the page, be a small price to pay for a much better chat server?
Also, the cosmetics... They take some getting used to. It's not the lovely blue that we're used to. It's a bright white. Not Toooo Bright. But, still a bright white. Which means sometimes it's easy to get posts confused ect. But, honestly I think the pro's out way the con's here.
Not to mention with the multiple room feature Chat would hardly ever be crowded. Pleasantly full if things go the way I think they will. but never crowded.
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Has the chat always been laggy, or is this something new?
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It's been happening for the last couple of weeks at least. But it's been more in the recent couple of days.
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Ok. Thanks for that.
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It looks like the server software to me.
ICMP pings to chat.animorphsforum .com 26 Apr 4:43 p EDT
24 packets transmitted, 24 received, 0% packet loss, time 23035ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 70.548/74.551/99.445/6.021 ms
But, at the same time, the chat app claims about 250 ms lag. If there are more than three or four people online, that statistic ends up longer than a second. (In the app; I haven't ICMP pinged the server when it's busy.)
When loaded, it will occasionally stop responding for tens of seconds at a time. Also, it appears that people are leaving and entering quickly.
Hope this info helps.
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Yeah... I'm thinking HG server slow-down. I'll just move it over to XEhost for a few days and see if there's a reduction in the lag.
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My window ALWAYS gets stuck!!!!! ITS SO ANNOYING. What it says when i scroll over that movey bar thing is: XMLHTTPRequest sent. Waiting for response... Click here to reload. FOREVER. And when i click to reload, it'll work for the first 3 times that it says that, and then it craps out completely, making me have to close every IE window i have open, in order to restart the program. This has happened for about 3 weeks now.
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This sounds expensive
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Yeah, just to confirm, I am getting a ton of lag right now. It was never like this before.
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i agree, anything that isnt as laggy as the chat is now would be awesome
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the chat was always laggy for me so didn't notice a difference...
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I really think userplane would be a great option. *Is slightly biased... And REALLY wants the video chat feature*
Userplane has so many more options. And the lag is nearly non-existent from any time I've seen. And no, Russell it isn't expensive. Anything I've read says userplane is free. ... I don't know if Richard has some form of locked in agreement with the current chatserver, though.
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:o
HOLY CRAPAZOIDSZ!
Hopefully will be back up soon.
Some odd file transfers happened, and now the entire structure of the CHAT is corrupted.
Hopefully our hosts have a backup copy, because I compromised all of mine.
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Richard
Is this my fault?!
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ITS GONE ITS GONE THE BEAUTIFUL CHAT IS GONE!!!!!! :o
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but i was just in chat!
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chat looks fine to me too...
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My window ALWAYS gets stuck!!!!! ITS SO ANNOYING. What it says when i scroll over that movey bar thing is: XMLHTTPRequest sent. Waiting for response... Click here to reload. FOREVER. And when i click to reload, it'll work for the first 3 times that it says that, and then it craps out completely, making me have to close every IE window i have open, in order to restart the program. This has happened for about 3 weeks now.
mebby u should use Firefox???
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My window ALWAYS gets stuck!!!!! ITS SO ANNOYING. What it says when i scroll over that movey bar thing is: XMLHTTPRequest sent. Waiting for response... Click here to reload. FOREVER. And when i click to reload, it'll work for the first 3 times that it says that, and then it craps out completely, making me have to close every IE window i have open, in order to restart the program. This has happened for about 3 weeks now.
mebby u should use Firefox???
Well it doesn't do it anymore, so i guess Richard fixed it
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we should have more rooms!
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we should have more rooms!
This is very true! :)
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Can't you just start one up?
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I believe only myself can add rooms... Is the Random Room not enough?
I'm open to room suggestions, and reasons why.
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i don't have a problem with just one room.
rarely enough people are ever on to need another.
oh, and i haven't been noticing much lag at all recently.
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someone once mentioned a GESB room would be good.
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raf arena
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someone once mentioned a GESB room would be good.
What does GESB mean? And what would be the purpose of this room?
raf arena
What would the the purpose of this room?
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someone once mentioned a GESB room would be good.
What does GESB mean? And what would be the purpose of this room?
GESB stands for Galaxy's Edge Space Bar, and the purpose would be for them to communicate like they used to, back on Kimerree's AniChat.
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... so basically a roleplay room?
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Le sigh, the memories of teh gesb..
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I believe only myself can add rooms... Is the Random Room not enough?
Oh, cool. Otherwise, there'd be so many randomly titled rooms. *whew*
I can see the bene's of a RP room, you know, letting people know that if you enter this room, be sure to be in character.
that'd be pretty sweet.
raf arena
What is that, like another RP room, but like a battle royale room? That's kinda odd.
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someone once mentioned a GESB room would be good.
What does GESB mean? And what would be the purpose of this room?
GESB stands for Galaxy's Edge Space Bar, and the purpose would be for them to communicate like they used to, back on Kimerree's AniChat.
Kimm's is dead and gone, and we're all here now. I'm okay with that. But, it would be cool. :)
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Richard, sorry to complain, but RAFchat has gotten unbearable. Maybe it's just my connection, but it is just lagging interminably every time I go in. I have to refresh at least every 5-10 minutes, but often several times in a minute. Currently, it has been trying to load for 5 minutes.
EDIT: Sorry for resurrecting another necroed thread, haha. I saw your response to Scott. Thanks, Richard.
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If a RP chat room for the GESB is possible, I would support it because I think that would be really cool to have the Bar in 'Real Time'
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*waves* Halloo... just a suggestion to the folks who want additional dedicated chatrooms in the RAFchat... why not just start your own free Chatzy room? They can only be reached by people who have the specific link and password, so it's secure, and they can be 'cleared' (erased) for further privacy, if it's wanted. It also limits the additional burden on RAFfinances that might be incurred by extra chatrooms.
Honestly, I've kinda' wondered for a long time why RAF hasn't dropped RAFchat and just shifted completely to a free service or else said "get on Skype or Gmail or Digsby; we're all in there somewhere." As far as I'm aware, there are incredibly few RAFians who don't have some alternative method to instant message other RAFians.
Eh. Just my $0.02.
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the other room, RP & Projects, is used for roleplaying in.
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the other room, RP & Projects, is used for roleplaying in.
OH i didnt know that. Perhaps the name could be changed to GESB then??? Just a random thought idea.
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I'm pretty sure the point of the name is to keep it open for all RPGs, not just GESB.
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I figured that, but I also thought it wouldnt hurt anyone if I at least threw an idea out there. Plus I never see anyone using that room.
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Of course. :)
Well, maybe now it'll see some use?
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Speaking of chat I cant get into the M&G. Can you get in?
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Speaking of chat I cant get into the M&G. Can you get in?
Many of us are here.
Try: http://chat.animorphsforum.com (http://chat.animorphsforum.com)
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Ok my computer hates me tonight and wont let me in chat. It must be my computers fault so I'm gonna go throw it out the window.
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I just tried the link, and I'm having the same issue as Shawn:
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to chat.animorphsforum .com
Try reloading: chat.animorphsforum.com
Additional suggestions:
Access a cached copy of chat.animorphsforum.com
Go to animorphsforum.com
Search on Google:
Any suggestions would be appreciated, but it's no emergency. :P
Shawn, it's not your computer's fault.
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I just tried the link, and I'm having the same issue as Shawn:
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to chat.animorphsforum .com
Try reloading: chat.animorphsforum.com
Additional suggestions:
Access a cached copy of chat.animorphsforum.com
Go to animorphsforum.com
Search on Google:
Any suggestions would be appreciated, but it's no emergency. :P
Shawn, it's not your computer's fault.
Oh....really? *looks out window* um oops. :facepalm2:
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I just tried the link, and I'm having the same issue as Shawn:
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to chat.animorphsforum .com
Try reloading: chat.animorphsforum.com
Additional suggestions:
Access a cached copy of chat.animorphsforum.com
Go to animorphsforum.com
Search on Google:
Any suggestions would be appreciated, but it's no emergency. :P
Shawn, it's not your computer's fault.
Oh....really? *looks out window* um oops. :facepalm2:
Haha... Sorry for the late reply. But is everything ok, now?
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Well my computer needs some super glue and duct tape, but the chat works fine so it's all good.
Thanks Richard.
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All appears to be in working order here, too. Thanks.
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Scratch that; it just died on me again. Same error message. >_<
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Yep same here. I also need more duct tape and super glue because I ran out. :P
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Also, just to eliminate this from the list of troubleshoots:
When the chat is down for me, it's down in Chrome, FF, IE, and Opera. Haven't tried any others.
Already cleared the cache and cookies, and that doesn't affect it in any way.
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Keep me updated. It's working fine for me now. Will work on resolving it.
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Chat is again gitching out. Sometimes it works, but right now it isn't
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Chat is again gitching out. Sometimes it works, but right now it isn't
I have been getting this too
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Glitching out, as in? What happens?
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as in it doesnt work. I'll be chattin just fine then it frezzes like its lagging and when I reload it doesnt work. When I look beside the RAFchat logo all I see is a white box instead of how many are online.
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*nod* We get that two, fairly frequently. It's the same problem we've had since the switch to new-newRAF. :P
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Glitching out, as in? What happens?
What it will do is it will stop letting us send tells, then if you refresh it says it timed out. And one the forum where it normal tall you how many are online, it either says nothing, or has a tan box
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Fantastic.
/s
I'll have to find us a new host for the Chat, again.
Or maybe even use a remotely-hosted one.
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well it was working fine for a while, but now its glitched out again.
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Still working for us, at the moment. We'll come back and change this post if that changes.
Interesting to note that, when it blips out for one person who has chat issues, it doesn't happen to all of us at once.
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:mad: :explode: dang I really was enjoying the chat session. FYI I do have Skype if you would still wish to chat with me. shawnn1987 is my Skype name
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Okay, the chat JUST booted us, too.
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I got kicked out of the chat.
Sorry for leaving so abruptly.
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i'm getting this:
http://error404.000webhost.com/? (http://error404.000webhost.com/?)
when i tried to go on today
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Not sure if this goes here- And I'm a little out of sorts at the moment so if you'll please correct me, you'll see just how little these mishaps continue to pop up.. *ahem*
0o Is RAFChat okay? Clicked on it and was taken to an unusual Error site that seems to be asking for payment.
Not entirely sure if the site is safe or not, so I will post a link but I don't really reccomend clicking it. 0o;
http://error404.000webhost.com/? (http://error404.000webhost.com/?)
If this is just a one-time sort of issue that only I am having- Again i apologise for the inconvenience and waste of space that is this thread. If you are interested in getting back the few minutes of your life you spent reading this because you are severely miffed, please PM me later- I'll see what interesting thing I can scrounge off Youtube for your enjoyment. =3
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i noticed too. there's actually a thread already for chat problems
http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=2962.0 (http://animorphsforum.com/index.php?topic=2962.0)
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Me too, me too!
(Thanks by the by, Ko ko. > > If I had the power, I'd just erase the other thread or lock it or.. umn.. whatever mods do with it.)
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Cool- Thanks Koko.
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The chat is back. If you are unable to login, just re-register.
A bunch of accounts were removed when the host decided to delete our account.