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Welcome to the New and Improved Chat on ChatFighters!
Hello ChatFighters!
Video introduction, click to play:
NO, the site hasn't been hacked! Please, everyone, stay calm. The Chat feature on the site has been updated, and I'm writing this of my own free will. Nobody is pointing a gun to my head and kidnapped my family.
It's been a while since our last official update, but we've finally mustered the courage again to introduce another major change to ChatFighters.com. *gulp*
What's New?
We're updating the core of ChatFighters – our Chat! You might have noticed our team collecting your feedback if you've been active recently.
- Today, we're switching to the latest version of the Chat.
We know change can be challenging, so we've added some goodies to make it worth your while:
- New User filters: Search for users; Pro tip: The filter also searches your federation badges and Chat Status text! Giving your status another reason.
- New Room filters: For room lists and conversations find rooms quickly. You can search room tags, too, such as federation, roleplay, or ring.
- Draft: Conversations with unsend text are highlied as draft.
- Avatar icon: added to the conversation list.
- Longer context windows: Now 2000 characters instead of 1000.
- Extended edit time: 5 minutes instead of 2 minutes.
Customizing Your Chat Experience
To make the transition smoother, we've added new customization options - to get 'old chat look and feel follow the steps below:'
- Clear beta cache: If you joined the beta, close and reopen the Chat or press CTRL+F5 to hard reload the Chat.
- Themes: Choose "legacy combat" under settings to mimic the old chat colors.
- Default Scaling: Reset your browser zoom to 100% if you adjusted it for the old Chat.
- Adjustable Settings: Text size, channel layout, and panel size can all be customized under settings.
- Quick Start: Go to settings in the chat, then click on Quick Start and Useful Hints for a quick reminder and introduction.
Design Philosophy
Note: This isn't just a chat update; it's a complete re-creation from the ground up. We've tried to stay as close to the original design as possible while incorporating modern best practices. And based on your feedback, we added Chat Themes, which was not originally planned.
Designs, fashion, and art are constantly evolving and repeating, even if we are not. While recreating the chat, we followed best practices in current layouts and designs. We know designs were different 5 years ago and will be different again in 5 years, but as we created the chat now, we used what is considered modern today. Our main expertise isn't in design, so we focus on best practices.
For the devs out there, only the front end was changed, and the back end remains mostly the same. This recreation allows us to add the chat to our native app without any extra work. Which was not possible with the old front end. Understandably, we don't want to support two front end chat versions forever. But for now, we do.
Some might say, "Don't fix what's not broken." But here's why we did it:
- Progress is essential – we don't want to live in the stone age.
- The old chat couldn't be ported to a native app. This new chat is designed to work seamlessly on mobile, providing a significantly better experience and making it possible to add to an app.
Important: The old Chat will still be accessible, but it won't receive any new updates or maintenance and might be turned off at any point without warning.
Your Feedback Still Matters!
While our beta testers have helped us fix many bugs, we need your help too. If you encounter any issues or feel something is missing, please let us know! Constructive feedback is invaluable. You can reach out here or via tickets.
We hope you find the new chat attractive. If not, you can adjust it back to the old layout using the settings.
Shoutout: If you are a content creator or video editor, we would love it if you want to create a short tutorial or introduction video for the CF or the chat - get in contact with us. And discuss details and compensations.
Have fun, stay safe, and happy chatting!
Cheers,
ChatFighters
MarkyM
2024-05-26 17:36Love it! Great updates and fun exploring all the new features and sounds
Small Fry
2024-05-26 17:45Not a bad update. The additions of on-demand cache clearing and chat/room filters is a great step forward. The new chat edit time and length was also great! For me at least, if you have the mobile keyboard open you can't access the top bar. If this is a step towards a native app for ChatFighters, I'd be content. If it's anything like MeetFighters, however, the one gripe I would have with it is being disconnected immediately when switching tabs to simply view a full profile. Maybe having an in-chat way to do this would be nice, or maybe a buffer of being disconnected while using the app? Having a text scale option for the side panels would be great too - personally the member list and mini-profile is too big for me.
Akira Ten
2024-05-26 17:52Not bad update but can I change the language of some UI? As a user come from east Asia, I would rather to use all English UI Instead ONLY SOME OF THEM got translated to another language, it’s too ugly and really annoying.
But yeah , theme color is good and I love it !
The Tech
2024-05-26 19:01Thanks for the feedback;
Known issues we are working on:
Sean Owens (deleted member)
2024-05-26 19:46Hello, hope you are well.
I was thinking that the DND status in the chat could be improved.
If one did not want to be disturbed, then when clicking on this status, notification sounds would not sound for the user in question.
Otherwise everything is good.
Nasty Bogdan (deleted member)
2024-05-26 20:35👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼
The Tech
2024-05-26 21:16Known issues we are working on:
Nick Archer
2024-05-26 23:43I want old chat
Callum Joseph
2024-05-27 10:01The reason is
Bob the Rock
2024-05-27 10:10i'm liking the new chat, at first had problems with my browser google chrome, but it works well with opera. I really appreciate the doubling of the amount of text you can enter and also the increase in edit time allowed. Well done!
Ricky Luna
2024-05-27 22:26Something I have noticed as I tried to roleplay was that it took some trial and error to set up a dice match with HP lines and the like. In the old chat this was an option similar to flipping a coin and was a dedicated option. Now I can't seem to figure out how to do it without resorting to the !set command.
Also I don't know if it is my browser but I guess some options are supposed to bring up a pop-up menu? One option is the ability to pull up "photos" but all my screen does is turn slightly dark, but no pop-up menu appears.
weightclass170
2024-05-29 18:07i would like to thank the tech crew. i am sure its 100x as much work as most people would think. i hate change but it has to happen to keep up. my god windows seems to update ever week. thanks again for all the work and i know the bugs will get worked out.
Abel Rodgers (deleted member)
29 days agoGreat update! The only thing I don't like is how close the video chat button is to the bar where you type. If that could be flipped with the camera (so that a menu opens instead of a video chat prompt) that would be nice! I really don't want to accidentally throw on my camera and be pulled out of the fantasy.
The Tech
29 days ago(In reply to this)
You can't accidentally call; There is a big confirmation dialog before the call actually starts, you can also disable audio/video before you start the call - or click cancel :)
The Tech
29 days agoOur chat got another update:
Fight lover
28 days agoThere are problems in Google Chrome, the information is not updated or the page freezes:
- You may receive a sound notification about a message, but you will not see the chat until you refresh the entire page.
- A person can go out, he is highlighted that he is online, his status is written, but in fact he is not online.
- the pencil hangs next to the name/room name. If someone starts writing, the pencil will hang until you refresh the page.