Can you change the color of the username in the chat window based on if the user is logged in or not? So if I look at your username and it's RED, I know you are NOT online, and if it's GREEN, you're available.
Privacy concerns are my main qualm. To me chat is better as a wall anyone can write to, but shouldn't mean you are signing up for the whole site to track where you are on the internet. Especially if you don't make that detail obvious how that works before someone writes a message. It's a -1 for me but I'm still willing to take input if people feel differently.
Actually, what I meant was, if the user is signed in to MATRIX, their chat id would be BOLD OR GREEN (depending on if you prefer to use text emphasis or color emphasis), and, if they're not logged in, their chat id would either be normal text (i.e. not bold) or RED. So their text status is derived from their site login status. Another way would be to add an up/down arrow before the username in chat, and let the site login status dictate its Up/Down position. Give it some thought, if there's a practical way of implementing it, why not? But ultimately, Your site, Your Rules. ~iSnark
I see what you mean. The problem is how logins work on most websites. A user is pretty much never not logged in. The question is if a user has a browser open that still has a ticket that says "Yep, I'm this person." Because I can't know when they close their browser or their browser chooses to forget that ticket I can't know when someone is not logged in. They choose when to throw away their ticket. Or more likely their browser manages that for them. I don't get any info when they do that.
I see your point. It may not be a perfect implementation, but, is it fair to say, that, you can trigger the chat status when a user (a 'trixer) logs on, and again with they log off, and accept that some users will, from time to time, not make a clean break from the site, and, that becomes a behavior change issue. Another thought might be to set timers that do a sweep across the chatverse, and puts the chat status into "sleep mode" if the user fails to send input into the system in a predefined period of time. And conceptually, the system can "flip" the chat status mode back to active, when a user returns and enters a keystroke, (if they've not been away long enough to be automatically logged off, but, long enough to be noticed as AWOL).
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Especially if you don't make that detail obvious how that works before someone writes a message.
It's a -1 for me but I'm still willing to take input if people feel differently.
Another thought might be to set timers that do a sweep across the chatverse, and puts the chat status into "sleep mode" if the user fails to send input into the system in a predefined period of time.
And conceptually, the system can "flip" the chat status mode back to active, when a user returns and enters a keystroke, (if they've not been away long enough to be automatically logged off, but, long enough to be noticed as AWOL).
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Can we not edit these, or am I missing it?