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Offline Coal Kropotkin

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RAFchat.
« on: April 25, 2009, 02:12:15 PM »
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. :)

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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2009, 09:59:07 PM »
I second that motion, anything other than what's used now. I don't use RAFchat because of the lag
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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2009, 10:10:54 PM »
Agreed, if it's as good as you say.
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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2009, 08:18:07 AM »
Any comments from a moderator? Or an admin would be nice... *Cough* Hint hint *Cough*
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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2009, 12:37:58 PM »
... Damn. Guess no one liked the idea. :(
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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2009, 12:43:00 PM »
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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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2009, 12:49:04 PM »
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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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2009, 02:30:54 PM »
Has the chat always been laggy, or is this something new?
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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2009, 03:03:07 PM »
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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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2009, 03:37:43 PM »
Ok. Thanks for that.
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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2009, 03:48:14 PM »
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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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2009, 04:05:28 PM »
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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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2009, 05:13:03 PM »
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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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2009, 05:35:14 PM »
This sounds expensive
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Re: RAFchat.
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2009, 06:06:25 PM »
Yeah, just to confirm, I am getting a ton of lag right now.  It was never like this before.
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