Customize Chat

Add your photo (avatar)

To have your photo or an image display with your name in chats, upload the image file using your exact nickname or username as the file name, including mirroring capitalization exactly. Please use a small sized image - around 50 x 50 pixels or less than 50k file size.

See avatar for more details.

Customize how the chat looks to you

If you don't want to see everyone's different colors and fonts in the chat but just want the default standard font, click the box below and then click the submit button. Note that the chat screen will display faster if you use the standard font since the system doesn't have to do extra work figuring out what fonts everyone is using.

Before selecting the option below, select something readable from the options above. Otherwise, other users could see your chat messages in some funky font, color and size.

Explanation of 'Chat rooms you want to monitor'

This is a half-baked option right now, more for advanced users or people who are willing to try it even though it's a bit confusing. What it does is let you monitor multiple chat rooms. You can still enter comments only in the chat room you are in but you'll be able to see comments from other chat rooms. This can be very confusing when you think you're chatting with people in another room. The real strength of this option (and the reason I put it in for now) is to be able to see what's going on in the EJ's Room from the Main Room - very akin to the old site's chat with combined humans and EJs.

Here are the details:

• You can select multiple chat rooms to monitor. On Windows, hold down the CTRL key when left-mouse-clicking to select multiple rooms. (On Macintosh hold down the Command/Apple key and click to select multiple rooms.)
• No matter what rooms you're monitoring, when you are in a particular chat room, you will always monitor that room regardless of whether it is checked in your list or not. (Believe me, I tried it without this and it was even more confusing cuz you could be in Main Room, but only monitoring the EJs Room, and think your comments would go to the EJ room but they would go to the Main Room and you'd never see them. Trust me, it was confusing as hell.)
• Only pages with the word 'Chat' in them and not the word 'sandbox' will appear in the pulldown. This limits the pulldown to most of the valid chatrooms that aren't just being developed. Only chat rooms that have at least 1 chat comment in them will appear.

Example of how Jimbob is using it: I have the EJ's room and the Main Room selected so I can see what the EJ is doing as well as the main chat. Note that when I pop over to J-Walk or Sparkit's chat, I'll still be seeing the Main Room and EJ Room. I would have to come back to this page and turn them off if I didn't want to see them. Although this isn't a good long-term solution, it does allow Sparkit and J-Walk to develop their chat layouts using the actual live data from the Main Room.

Note that this option may disappear at any time if I come up with another more intuitive way to do it.

Filter

If you don't want to see what someone is saying in the chat, you can filter them and not see what they type.

In the chat box itself where you type chat comments, you type:

filter xyz

where xyz is a full or partial string match to the person or IP address you want to filter.

Multiple strings can be used with the word AND between them. Case is not important for any portion of the command. For example:

filter Jimbob

will filter any user who's name is Jimbob or contains Jimbob in the name.

filter Jimbob and Johnboy

would filter any users with the string Jimbob or Johnboy in their name.

filter 68.43.35

would filter anyone with that string in their IP address.

To turn the filter OFF, simply type "filter" by itself or "filter off". Example:

filter off

Note that the chat line MUST begin with the word "filter". If it does, anything after that is used as the actual filter. Any line beginning with the word "filter" will not show up in the chat. Therefore, your filters are private. Just make sure you start the line with the word filter.

See also

• Getting Started
• Color reference
• Audio lag time
• Underwear

If you find a bug in this feature or on this page, please report it here.