The Chat Room and Office Firewalls

[South Bank Hank]

Anyone who had problems before due to firewalls, could you please try the Chat Room again?

Hopefully, the problem's fixed now. If not, it'd be good to know.

Thanks,
SBH

[Bob Cratchitt]

Yep it does now let you on, a nice frig by the coders

[The General]

Even works for me now!

[stevie_G_G_G]

Does this mean the "Live thread" will be no more then??

[OldBlueLady]

Does this mean the "Live thread" will be no more then??


Heaven forbid! :stunned:

[MK Shrimper]

No, still blocked here.

[stevie_G_G_G]

Heaven forbid! :stunned:

Haha, thought that may have been the reaction :)

[Bob Cratchitt]

No, still blocked here.

That will then be your filter policy rather than the firewall which just blocks on ports.

The one down side of the new chat room is that it is passing the connections to a 3rd party which has been cateogrised as a chat provider, whereas ShrimperZone.com is only in as sports site.

so Steve it looks like the database absorbing Live thread will continue for the foreseeable future. :p

[MK Shrimper]

That will then be your filter policy rather than the firewall which just blocks on ports.

The one down side of the new chat room is that it is passing the connections to a 3rd party which has been cateogrised as a chat provider, whereas ShrimperZone.com is only in as sports site.

so Steve it looks like the database absorbing Live thread will continue for the foreseeable future. :p

Well how about deleting the "live thread" once a month? Im not bothered about my post count TBH.

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Well how about deleting the "live thread" once a month? Im not bothered about my post count TBH.

Why get rid of the "Live" thread? if people don't like the concept of it then they simply do not have to enter it.

Live chat receives the most amount of posts out of all the threads on the board so why close it down?

[South Bank Hank]

Whoa there, no one's threatening to close the Live Thread down...

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Whoa there, no one's threatening to close the Live Thread down...

Phewwwww, that would have meant venturing out in to other threads........

Scary

:whistling:

[MK Shrimper]

Phewwwww, that would have meant venturing out in to other threads........

Scary

:whistling:

No I just meant "cleansing it" once a month if its taking up valuable computer bits and bytes.

[Ricey]

No I just meant "cleansing it" once a month if its taking up valuable computer bits and bytes.

I thought it was discovered that is wasn't taking up as much memory as originally thought?

[South Bank Hank]

I thought it was discovered that is wasn't taking up as much memory as originally thought?

With 17,400 posts, it still takes up a significant amount of memory in the database, but as people pointed out before, no more than 17,400 other posts spread about elsewhere on the Zone.

The original point was that it doesn't really seem to be affecting the site's performance - you only look at a small section at any one time - so there's no reason to get rid of it.

[GlasgowSUFC]

I don't get any window/line to post text when I go into chat?
Cricko's just messaged me but I can't reply!

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

What is wrong with the chat Room?????????????

The window does not go down enough to be able to type in to it??

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Ok.........it works but only when you open a new window.....if you go in via the "Float" option the bottom of the screen is cut of

[Bluesmanager]

Have to say - can't read a ruddy thing in there now.

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

There is no way that anyone will stay in there for more then 2 mins.....you can not read a thing

Petition to bring the old spread back anyone???

[Hazey]

Yeah would have to agree.