Questions tagged [chat]
Chat is the real time, stateful web chat that's a part of every Stack Exchange site. Use this tag for questions concerning the chat functionality.
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Stack Overflow chat opening up to all users in January; Stack Exchange chat later
In early January we plan to lower the reputation requirement for Stack Overflow chat rooms to 1, allowing all users to enter and participate in public chat rooms.
Some chat actions will remain at ...
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Anti-bot filter bugs
I've been using the chat since I've created my SO account(quite recently), and I was just checked by an anti-bot filter. For some reason, this is not a Captcha, and you just have to wait. It should be ...
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Set your (chat) room culture does not have a link to the room
A new inbox message invites me to "Set your room culture". Opening the link gives an "Edit chat room" dialogue with the room name filled in, plus a few other fields that I can ...
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Why do the SO Chat page main navigation links show a "1 Invited" badge when I have no invitations?
I present a tragic drama in a single act:
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Me: "Hmm, it's well-past 11pm on a Wednesday night; let's see how the party's going in chat.stackoverflow..."
Me: "OWO WHAT'S THIS - an ...
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People being invited to the Lobby chat room
There have been a couple of posts in the Lobby chatroom I've become aware of where people seem to have been "invited" by someone else. I don't know where this is coming from, and neither do ...
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What is the Stack Overflow Lobby? Is it different from other rooms in Chat?
I've recently visited Chat, specifically the Stack Overflow Lobby, however, I was unfamiliar with the rules and expectations of the chat room. Does the Lobby follow the same rules as Stack Overflow ...
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Modify chat so that pressing enter selects a user rather than sending message after typing @
In chat today, multiple users send a message consisting of the @ symbol followed by the first three letters of a user's username. This happened for me after typing @, typing the first three letters, ...
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How to get back to a Chat
A question OP invited me to Chat. I joined the chat on one system, and posted some replies.
But now, on another system, I can't see any menu, icon or option that lets me rejoin that chat.
What did I ...
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Help page still in need of update? (create chat rooms)
The privileges help page regarding chat, create chat rooms [sic], includes the text
How do I create a new chat room?
There is a link to chat in the footer of every page. The link also
appears in the ...
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Links to comments on Collective articles don't onebox in chat, which is counter to expectations
In chat, I pasted a link to a Collectives article comment, and expected the chat message to expand into a oneboxed (quoted, properly linked and attributed) copy of the actual text of the comment.
I ...
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How can I update my username in Chat?
I previously used my name as my handle. I've managed to update it on the main site, but the change doesn't seem to reflect in chat.
I've sifted through meta posts with tags like chat change/alter/edit/...
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CV-PLS old requests room moderator/CM authorization
Around a month ago, I created a new chat room intended for registering questions which should be closed, but don't have recent activity within the scope set by SOCVR. Any room with a collection of ...
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Chat high CPU usage and `replace is not a function`
When Chat such as https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/253534/milp (nothing interesting about that; it's currently empty) is open in Firefox, it takes up high CPU:
The console is constantly spamming ...
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"Follow" for chats
Can we get "follow" functionality for chats, so we get notified about new messages even after we closed the tab? It's super useful for questions/answers. But with chats, I have to actively ...
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Chat - Unhide or unignore messages
I just opened a chat with just one eye open today and misclicked somewhere. I think I have either "hide" the messages or "ignored" them by accident. How do I undo this?
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