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Ideas for improvements to Tranny Radio and the chat room
As our benevolant dicatoress (
) Amanda said when she created this forum, this is an opportunity to put forward suggestions on how the site could be improved.Since emails from me with suggestions was what got this started, I thought that it might be a good idea for me to list the suggestions I’ve made so far plus the new ones that I have come up with since and not mentioned to Amanda yet.
[ul]I’d like to be able to prevent others from dragging me out of a conversation in the main chat room into a private chat. While I could obviously simply close the private chat, that would be interpreted as rude. I’d also still lose text that I was typing in the main chat room into the popup private chat. Some form of toggle to disable private chat would be fine.
I’d like to see a flag to indicate that someone is in a private chat. Sometimes there are 6 or more in the chatroom but no sign of conversation.
Font resizing. I run a 19″ monitor at a resolution of 1600×1200. The font size used in the chat room might be fine for a display running at lower resolution but it’s sometimes quite hard to read at the resolution I run. Attempts to resize the font in the browser result in the gallery font resizing but not the chat windows.
The font resizing request also applies to the TgR profiles and forums. If I increase the font in profiles, the left frame gains a horizontal scroll bar rather than shifting sideways proportional to the font. I also have to upsize the font to see what I’m typing to post in the forums.Themes. It would be nice to be able to apply colour themes to all parts of Tranny Radio. If you don’t like the orange/brown colour scheme, you could change to your own scheme without affecting others. This wouyld also allow the chat room to have a consistent look to the rest of Tranny Radio.[/ul]
Let the arguements begin.
Alice
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Oh, another one I forgot.
Reset the time until a digest is emailed when users log in or read the forums.
I often receive a digest while I’m still on the site!
Alice
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Well firstly I would like to say that this is a great facilty, and has improved a million % since I first joined. Congratulations to our web mistress.
I would like to see someway of contacting people. It appears as if they are in the chat room, but often they are logged in but busily surfing elswhere. It would be grat if you could ping them and something popped up on thier screen, (they may have voume off). This should be a default, and you should have to turn it off EVERY time you log into chat if you so wish not to use it.thanks
Again the site is really good
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As someone who has fiddled about with the php forum platforms quite a bit perhaps I can add something to these queries:
Alice said: I’d like to be able to prevent others from dragging me out of a conversation in the main chat room into a private chat. While I could obviously simply close the private chat, that would be interpreted as rude. I’d also still lose text that I was typing in the main chat room into the popup private chat. Some form of toggle to disable private chat would be fine.
Here, as in all forums that have private Instant Messaging functions it is generally considered the height of rudeness to IM someone without asking first in the general chat area however in the general context of friendships formed in places such as this many consider that asking first doesn’t apply to them if they have IM’d you without rebuke on previous occasions. The really annoying part of most of these IM’s is that generally the chat is of the kind that can be dispensed with in General Chat anyway i.e: ‘Hi’ ‘How are you?’ ‘How is the weather there?’ etc. To my knowledge you cannot disable Private Chat individually at will it must be done by the moderator and would affect all users.
Alice said:I’d like to see a flag to indicate that someone is in a private chat. Sometimes there are 6 or more in the chatroom but no sign of conversation.
You do have a flag for that. The correct etiquette is to enable the BUSY sign next to your name.
Samantha-Jane said: Well firstly I would like to say that this is a great facilty, and has improved a million % since I first joined. Congratulations to our web mistress.
I would like to see someway of contacting people. It appears as if they are in the chat room, but often they are logged in but busily surfing elswhere. It would be grat if you could ping them and something popped up on thier screen, (they may have voume off). This should be a default, and you should have to turn it off EVERY time you log into chat if you so wish not to use it.Again, to my knowledge, that isn’t possible with this platform. The php forum platform is one of the most widely used and moderator-friendly systems available but like everything it has its limitations. If the forum were being used by hundreds of girls instead of a handful it might be worthwhile getting something full function but that costs money and this is after all a very much part-time thing that Amanda is providing. That being said the facilities available on TgR are, as we all agree, top notch so thank god Amanda puts in the time she does.
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Quote:Here, as in all forums that have private Instant Messaging functions it is generally considered the height of rudeness to IM someone without asking first in the general chat area
Ah. Okay. None of the girls who have done this to me have asked first.
Quote:The really annoying part of most of these IM’s is that generally the chat is of the kind that can be dispensed with in General Chat anyway i.e: ‘Hi’ ‘How are you?’ ‘How is the weather there?’ etc.Anything like this should go in the main chat window. As long as girls set their text colours so that we have a range of colours, it’s quite fun to have 2 or 3 crossed conversations amongst 6 people, with everyone participating in all of the conversations.
I’m more concerned that some girls seem to think that the chatroom is for finding someone for virtual sex. It isn’t and the rules clearly say so.
Quote:To my knowledge you cannot disable Private Chat individually at will it must be done by the moderator and would affect all users.The chatroom is not php. It’s a flash app. The same issue probably applies, though.
Alice
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Quote:Here, as in all forums that have private Instant Messaging functions it is generally considered the height of rudeness to IM someone without asking first in the general chat area however in the general context of friendships formed in places such as this many consider that asking first doesn’t apply to them if they have IM’d you without rebuke on previous occasions.
So perhaps the solution is to increase the verbage in the opening page for the chatroom to explain this.
Quote:The really annoying part of most of these IM’s is that generally the chat is of the kind that can be dispensed with in General Chat anywayCorrect. What I have noticed, though, is that the first thing they do is ask if I have a partner. If they had looked at my profile, they’d know I’m married.
I think that this question is to see if you want to chat about stuff that doesn’t have a PG rating!
Alice
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I have said b4, the chat area is great. One thing I would like to see on the site however is the ability to set one’s own password in the pers profile area. Or is there one?
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this site is in my view the best i have come across at this time i can not think of any ideas of improvement except for all us girls taking every chance to let others we come across know it is here. It has helped me deal with much i have ability to ask fro others views and experiences as i go through my change, re chat issues hm having ha my own chat room on a server the issues of priving are not easy solved i these days close the prive and am sarcastic and rude with those who prive without askign as you dont or shouldnt prive unless you have got to know another well first its rude and sadly beeing rude back is only way in my view but shouldt i be raising this in another forum??
