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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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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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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chat.stackoverflow.com/faq broken collapse/expand functionality
Just noticed a bug in https://chat.stackoverflow.com/faq and it doesn't seem to have been reported yet.
Edit (with a little help from my friends): turns out it was reported a few other times:
cross-...
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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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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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Join our dedicated Meta Stack Overflow chat room!
Meta Stack Overflow doesn't have a dedicated chat room just for any type of meta discussion, so I've created a basic chat room for meta discussion that can be used as a go-to chat room for the site:
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Why are the chat FAQ in almost identical links different?
These two links are almost identical, yet the displays are noticeably different. Why is that?
https://chat.stackoverflow.com/faq
https://chat.stackoverflow.com/faq#
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How can I find specific chat room in mobile web? [closed]
Is there a search feature in mobile web to search chat rooms ?
Ex: How can I find Kotlin chat room ? (Without exploring pagination links one by one)
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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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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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Community Wiki, where is it?
I understand that, in theory, a community wiki exists. I also understand that the term "wiki" may have a somewhat fluid definition. None-the-less, I'm thinking that questions like this would be really ...
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Is there a way to search/browse my own chatroom history?
Is there a way to browse one's own history of participation in chatrooms?
Specifically, I'd like a way to see all of my conversations that were started from a "Let us continue this discussion in ...
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