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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Room owners should be allowed to accept <20 rep users to talk in a room
I'm a fairly heavy chat user - and I think for new users sometimes it's best to direct them to a room related to their question, whereby details can be thrashed out (avoiding a long stream of comments)...
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Stack Overflow should not invite you to move a discussion to chat when one of the participants doesn't have enough reputation
This is basically the same as Chat with a new user, but I'm upgrading this to a bug report, because it is a confounded nuisance and makes it hard to help the people who need it most.
Ideally:
If ...
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Getting chat room notifications for someone else
I've gotten a couple notifications about messages to me in a chatroom for javascript. Although, when I click on these, they are another user who apparently also has the username Tom.
https://chat....
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Disallow languages other than English in chat
Please note that I am proposing a Policy Change in this post and not a Software Change on purpose. That's because software changes are hard to make, and policy changes are easy. I can propose a ...
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How can we support languages other than English in Stack Overflow's chat... And should we?
This old question has come up again, this time sparked by a heaping pile of flags in a room dedicated to Gujarati Android developers. But the question isn't new; two years ago, this was the lament:
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Offensive, inappropriate, and un-professional chat room names
I was browsing the front-page of Meta, and I noticed off to the right a very strange and kind of inappropriate name for a chat room:
However, when I look at the chat room info directly, the name of ...
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Proposal: Possibillity to start chat with low rep users
Quite often I find that new users of SO also are new as programmers. Which could lead to a bunch of trivial problems easily solved in chat. But since you can't chat with low rep users these kind of ...
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Regarding the reputation criteria for chatting
Today I had this incident. I was asking some more details from the OP regarding his/her question. Then I got a message stating not to extend discussion on comments rather use chat. But unfortunately ...
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How do I moderate my own chatroom?
The vast majority of time in my room - everything is fine and no action is required. However, occasionally there's a bad apple that disrupts my room in one way or another.
What can I do about this?
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Make the Stack Overflow chat more prominently linked
Recently I have noticed that not many people know about the existence of the Stack Overflow chat, among them many seasoned (10k+ rep) users. Stack Overflow Chat is just something where you end up by ...
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Where did the Stack Overflow chat link go?
It seems as if with the updates to the Stack Overflow footer, SO also decided to remove the link to SO Chat. It's a long running joke in chat that Stack Exchange likes to pretend as if chat doesn't ...
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Close vote seeding in PHP chat getting out of hand?
I don't mean to point fingers or cast blame on an individual, but I've noticed that PHP chat has a lot of cv-pls requests on questions that I believe are valid, to varying degrees.
See here
While I am ...
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How to notify or message a specific user
Within some questions, I find that a user appears to have particular knowledge that might be helpful in addressing other questions that they (probably) have not seen yet. How would I go about ...
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Why would "Let us continue this in chat" 404?
I stumbled upon this question.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43791529/how-do-you-request-amazon-mws-api-info-within-a-laravel-app
The comments ended with
Let us continue this discussion in chat....
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Deleting comment-generated chat rooms is counterproductive
When a conversation on a question or answer gets too long, users have the option of creating a chat room.
Sometimes, the choice will be made by moderators, cleaning up long conversations and moving ...
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