This concerns a lot of technical news.
First off, do not use the Monaco skin, and discontinue use of it if you are for now, it has a lot of bugs. I'm contacted the developer behind it about it, and MediaWiki 1.27 does not play nice with it, and while we try to keep current with his version via Miraheze, he's still working out bugs.
Second, some more features have come online, like the SocialProfile version of online chatting (we still have the freenode chat as a fallback option for now)
It is confirmed functional and if you uploaded a user avatar on your user pages, it will show up in the chat window as well.
If you want to try it out, go here:
http://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Chat
Assuming it proves stable enough, I'll provide a link to it on the sidebar and depreciate the other chat extension, though the old chat room itself will always remain an option, it costs us nothing to keep both.
We also have a user blogging option, but it's only partly functional at present, do not use until I say otherwise.
Private messaging and even public messaging is also possible now, go to a user's page to see the option for doing this (not your own)
It should be called "Send a message"
If someone wants to message me privately, please do so, I'd like to get a read on the stability of this feature. Sent one to Bob as a test privately, let me know if you got it.
There is a feature for sending users gifts, only has one gift now, sent it to Bob as a test, admins can add more.
P.S. - Hope you like it Bob, can be viewed on your social profile:
http://allthetropes.org/wiki/User_profile:Looney_Toons
(click on the gift to see any added message left by the gift giver)
Once all the new features are online and I can confirm what is stable, I fully intend to set them up and write some policy around them, and good news for admins, you can do things like remove offensive avatars, moderate chat by banning problem users, and so on.
Also, one final note: I am hoping to seal any gaps in our ability to provide everything TV Tropes does by adding these features, and I hope they prove a benefit to the community, and any input about them, positive or negative, is greatly appreciated.
First off, do not use the Monaco skin, and discontinue use of it if you are for now, it has a lot of bugs. I'm contacted the developer behind it about it, and MediaWiki 1.27 does not play nice with it, and while we try to keep current with his version via Miraheze, he's still working out bugs.
Second, some more features have come online, like the SocialProfile version of online chatting (we still have the freenode chat as a fallback option for now)
It is confirmed functional and if you uploaded a user avatar on your user pages, it will show up in the chat window as well.
If you want to try it out, go here:
http://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Chat
Assuming it proves stable enough, I'll provide a link to it on the sidebar and depreciate the other chat extension, though the old chat room itself will always remain an option, it costs us nothing to keep both.
We also have a user blogging option, but it's only partly functional at present, do not use until I say otherwise.
Private messaging and even public messaging is also possible now, go to a user's page to see the option for doing this (not your own)
It should be called "Send a message"
If someone wants to message me privately, please do so, I'd like to get a read on the stability of this feature. Sent one to Bob as a test privately, let me know if you got it.
There is a feature for sending users gifts, only has one gift now, sent it to Bob as a test, admins can add more.
P.S. - Hope you like it Bob, can be viewed on your social profile:
http://allthetropes.org/wiki/User_profile:Looney_Toons
(click on the gift to see any added message left by the gift giver)
Once all the new features are online and I can confirm what is stable, I fully intend to set them up and write some policy around them, and good news for admins, you can do things like remove offensive avatars, moderate chat by banning problem users, and so on.
Also, one final note: I am hoping to seal any gaps in our ability to provide everything TV Tropes does by adding these features, and I hope they prove a benefit to the community, and any input about them, positive or negative, is greatly appreciated.