Questions tagged [chat]
Real time, stateful web chat that's a part of every Stack Exchange site.
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Chat messages don’t show up unless I reload
Recently, unless I reload the page, new chat messages sent by other people don’t show up. I only see my messages and messages that were already there when I joined the room.
Also, when I send messages,...
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Stack Exchange Lobby entry-point link missing from hamburger menu pop-up
For low rep (under 20 reps), the main chat link takes them directly to the Lobby chat.
This works perfectly. However, the chat option from the hamburger menu works differently:
This takes you to ...
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Can't create new chat rooms
Trying to create a new chat room goes to an error page: https://chat.stackexchange.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/rooms/
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Area 51 chat icon not rendering
The icon does not seem to render in various places, such as the room info in a chat user's profile, next to the RO actions, the button above the title, the footer, oneboxes, and the browser favicon.
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If you don't have a chat room, the "Set your room's culture" notification takes you to a 404 page
It's there in the title: if you don't have a chat room, the "Set your rooom's culture" notification takes you to a 404 page. Well, that makes sense, because I assume it's trying to take me ...
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"Automatically move this discussion to chat" is broken [duplicate]
"Automatically move this discussion to chat" is broken, at least when I click on it via Chrome or Brave on this question.
This red rectangle (I guess an empty error message) appears upon ...
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Where would chat autocomplete be populated from? [closed]
For a while now I've been amused by these autocomplete prompts in SE chatrooms:
Alright lol
Explain
I . Failed . Math
I failed math
I failed math class. My math test, I failed it.
My parents are going ...
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Broken link in "chat is frozen" notice
When a chat is inactive and it's subsequently frozen Feeds posts a helpful message:
This room has been automatically frozen for inactivity
Unfortunately the fragment #retention does not correspond ...
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Sending a chat invite resets a user's last seen date on their chat profile even though they haven't entered a chatroom
I've been noticing this for years now. When a user is invited to a chatroom using the chat invite feature the last seen date on their chat user's profile immediately gets reset even though the user ...
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Chat transcript should show times in the current timezone, not UTC, to match the live room
Chat room pages currently show time in the user's local time.
However, chat transcripts currently show time going off the UTC time zone, regardless of what time zone you're in.
Could transcripts show ...
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New User Chat link broken
This has gone on pretty much as far as I know, surprised no one else has asked it.
When a new user joins a room (under 20 rep - I believe this stopped happening with accounts created after the lobbies)...
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Bug regarding "automatically move to chat" option [duplicate]
I was having a really long "clarification" process on this answer, so this "automatically move to chat" option appeared. I tried clicking it, then this is what happened.
Initially,
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Wrong chat link in the sidebar on the "Stack Overflow in Russian" site
Recently, starting from September 26, the chat link in the sidebar on the "Stack Overflow in Russian" Stack Exchange site changed and started pointing to a specific room instead of a list of ...
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Replied-to message preview is easy to accidentally click when trying to select the message on mobile
The reply indicator on mobile that shows up for older messages for context
is very easy to accidentally click on mobile, and it's annoying to have the page scroll up instead of selecting the message. ...
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Prompt for chat feeds should use "https://" instead of "http://"
As a user with access to update a chat room's feeds, I see this prompt:
New feed items from the URL "http://" will be posted ...
Most feeds that people will want to connect to chatrooms ...
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Trying to kick someone that hasn't sent a message recently (and therefore can't be kicked) incorrectly looks like it went through when it didn't [duplicate]
A user came into the Stack Exchange Lobby just now and star-spammed. I cancelled the stars and tried to kick them from the row of users on the side (this image doesn't include them)
I clicked kick-...
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Make deleted messages greyed out/italicised on mobile chat
Deleted images aren’t greyed out on mobile chat, so sometimes it’s hard to tell what is and isn’t deleted (sending "(removed)" after deleted messages is somewhat common in some rooms I’m in)....
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Users tab in mobile chat is broken
In both Safari and desktop browsers, clicking on the users tab in mobile chat does nothing.
I've also tested on a fresh chrome instance. Apparently there's no errors in the console.
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Kick notification for kicker missing
When an RO or mod kicks a user from chat, the notification doesn't display correctly. If you are on PC you simply get a notification that states:
click here to remove the notification bar
As shown ...
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Room Owners should be able to see deleted messages in the transcript
Currently, if a room owner goes to the transcript of a room they own, they won’t be able to see any deleted messages.
They can see deleted messages (and their content) when in the room chatting, and ...
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Improve the "How do I flag a message?" section of the chat FAQ
I see that SE added information about chat flags to the Chat FAQ at some point since the feedback request. For posterity, there is a Wayback Machine capture that shows the current flagging section. I ...
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Editing a message with an @user mention in the chat interface automatically turns it into a reply to the @user last message
This is probably another side effect of Wrong quoted text in chat when you both reply to a message and ping a user.
post a message in the chat that pings another user, preferably someone that just ...
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Wrong quoted text in chat when you both reply to a message and ping a user
Steps to reproduce:
Post a message that is not a reply. Use @ and ping a user. The last message of the pinged user should be fairly far away - enough whatever distance in messages triggers the quoted ...
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Formatting in the middle of a URL in chat displays formatting, then does not
I attempted to use formatting to highlight a possible spelling error to someone in chat. They'd mispelled stackexchange - so I'd tried to highlight just that word in the full URL as say unix....
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Searching for a chat room and then deleting the query removes the "create new room" and "show frozen/deleted rooms" buttons
Exactly what it says on the tin.
Steps to repro:
Go to https://chat.stackexchange.com
(If you have 100+ rep) Notice the "create a new room" button
Notice the "show frozen/deleted rooms&...
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