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Title: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 11, 2010, 06:51:48 pm
Just to make it clear, OmnomIRC was not created by me. It was created by Netham45. He even has special admin priviledges on the forums, hence his different member group than the rest of the purple one. I am not a PHP, JS nor AJAX coder. This means that any OmnomIRC suggestions that can be asked here can only be answered by him.

Right now my suggestion would be the merging of the forum online list with the OmnomIRC one, making it refresh every minute instead of 20 seconds and have the SpyBot45 so when Netham45 connection dies, the bot automatically reboots, so it won't stop working for entire weeks. Also allowing individual members to disable OmnomIRC on cookie basis would be nice, so people on slow machines can browse the forums fine.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2010, 10:51:05 am
Update: sub-forum created for OmnomIRC. Read the sub-forum description for more info.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 02, 2010, 12:22:16 pm
Right now my suggestion would be the merging of the forum online list with the OmnomIRC one, making it refresh every minute instead of 20 seconds and have the SpyBot45 so when Netham45 connection dies, the bot automatically reboots, so it won't stop working for entire weeks. Also allowing individual members to disable OmnomIRC on cookie basis would be nice, so people on slow machines can browse the forums fine.

I think merging them and extending the refresh time would be good ideas. Also, being able to disable it completely would be nice, but doesn't it already do that when you hide it?
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 03, 2010, 04:26:11 am
It is already merged actually :P

As for disabling OmnomIRC it would be nice in future versions actually.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 03, 2010, 10:40:41 am
Idea: Lower the refresh rate even more, but change it to, say, 500 ms when the focus is in the chat window.

Or maybe a refresh button.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 03, 2010, 12:14:10 pm
That would be a bit CPU intensive I think. If we did that we would have to disable OmnomIRC by default for new joining members.

And aww, Netham45 edited my forum description D:
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Netham45 on October 03, 2010, 02:02:34 pm
That would be a bit CPU intensive I think. If we did that we would have to disable OmnomIRC by default for new joining members.

And aww, Netham45 edited my forum description D:

No I didn't.

I don't have access to that, unless I go muck around with the database(which is a good way to break stuff)


Idea: Lower the refresh rate even more, but change it to, say, 500 ms when the focus is in the chat window.

Or maybe a refresh button.

I couldn't do that that low.

I'm planning on rewriting a lot of OmnomIRC soon, so I'm going to hold off on major feature requests like that, too.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 03, 2010, 02:11:38 pm
Aw ok so then someone changed it. It said "Harrass Netham45 for new OmnomIRC features there" XD
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Netham45 on October 03, 2010, 02:12:10 pm
Aw ok so then someone changed it. It said "Harrass Netham45 for new OmnomIRC features there" XD

D: No harassing me, I'll explode.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 03, 2010, 02:59:25 pm
Yeah, I noticed. :P
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: ztrumpet on October 03, 2010, 03:20:10 pm
To quote SpyBot,
Quote
(O) New post by ztrumpet in I\'m new...-ish http://tinyurl.com/24zzzc9#69867
It added an extra \ in there. :)
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 03, 2010, 03:21:42 pm
And the number-color bug isn't fixed yet (I think).
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Netham45 on October 03, 2010, 03:22:09 pm
And the number-color bug isn't fixed yet (I think).

number-color bug?
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 03, 2010, 03:26:49 pm
The one where if the post title starts with a number, that is read as part of the color for the SpyBot post.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Netham45 on October 03, 2010, 03:27:45 pm
The one where if the post title starts with a number, that is read as part of the color for the SpyBot post.

Fixed.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 03, 2010, 05:27:18 pm
Great, but aww, I can't take advantage of SpyBot glitches anymore :P
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 04, 2010, 12:54:03 am
You mean glitches to have the topic name a different color and the like? :P
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 23, 2010, 03:24:19 pm
Suggestion: Have the online list so forum nicks are clickable. If it's possible feel free to delete the # char at the beginning. If it isn't, then could you re-add the o logo at the beginning of forum nicknames again because now both forum and IRC nicks has a # in front of them.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: yunhua98 on October 25, 2010, 05:24:12 pm
is it possible for Omnom to show Randomness posts since its member-only anyway, but not on the actual channel?
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 25, 2010, 05:24:35 pm
It'd be too cluttered, then :P
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: yunhua98 on October 25, 2010, 05:25:35 pm
true.  :P

but I don't like refreshing to see if I missed any pf them.  ;)
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 25, 2010, 07:24:52 pm
I would rather prefer not.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 07, 2010, 03:03:57 pm
A request: italicizing text in /slashes/ and bolding text in *asterisks*, like with Mibbit and some other clients.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 07, 2010, 03:08:45 pm
THat might be an idea actually. It might be hard to not screw up certain text, though. X.x
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: ASHBAD_ALVIN on November 07, 2010, 03:10:42 pm
also, when I click on a person's name who's using the omnomIRC, it brings me to MY profile.

It would be cool If I could just click to go to their profile ;)
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 07, 2010, 03:12:22 pm
Erm, normally it should bring you to their profile. It might be an issue with your browser or Netham45 did an error while coding it. In Opera it brings me to the right profile.

EDIT: Tested in Chrome, Firefox and Opera: works fine. In IE, it brings me to my profile, though. Conclusion: Internet Explorer sucks. You might want to check http://www.abetterbrowser.org/
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 07, 2010, 03:13:54 pm
It works for me too...

I know it searches for the member before landing on the profile page. Can you check if member search works?

EDIT: What browser do you use?
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: TC01 on November 07, 2010, 03:21:09 pm
It works in IE 9 (for me, anyway).
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 07, 2010, 03:38:16 pm
I think he uses IE8, because I tried  in it and it didn't work, while it worked on others (including IE9, as TC01 mentions). IE9 is in beta, though, so backup everything before installing. I heard some people ran it fine, but I also heard horror stories about messed up Windows installs...
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 07, 2010, 07:25:48 pm
I think he uses IE8, because I tried  in it and it didn't work, while it worked on others (including IE9, as TC01 mentions). IE9 is in beta, though, so backup everything before installing. I heard some people ran it fine, but I also heard horror stories about messed up Windows installs...

No way, Windows can crash? :o

J/k, but anyway, I thought the final release was out. Must be getting ahead of myself :P

And yeah, just tried, and it doesn't work in IE8.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 07, 2010, 07:27:53 pm
Yeah, apparently Windows can crash. I only get about one program crash per hour on XP, though.

I noticed Netham45 was not active much lately, though. I guess this will take a while to get fixed.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 07, 2010, 07:35:50 pm
Yeah, apparently Windows can crash. I only get about one program crash per hour on XP, though.

Nice, that's better than my calculator.

And a less important request: Making the links plain (no underline) in the chat box. The links stand out a little too much, IMO.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 07, 2010, 08:52:22 pm
Oh, we tried that, but they did not stand out enough :(. I kinda prefer them as link. Otherwise newer users will not even notice they are even links at all, especially with the color in IRC text.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 07, 2010, 09:08:01 pm
Oh, that makes sense, then.

EDIT: And just wondering: What's that (O) in SpyBot45's posts?
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 07, 2010, 11:07:04 pm
It's to make it easier to distinguish post notices from the rest. It was gonna show (C) for Cemetech, but then we removed notices for all other sites.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 11, 2010, 07:17:12 pm
*bump* my suggestion for a Refresh button.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 11, 2010, 07:18:08 pm
Doesn't it already refresh? ???
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 11, 2010, 07:19:20 pm
Doesn't it already refresh? ???

Yeah, but sometimes, when activity's really high, I miss a lot of posts because it updates every 8 seconds.

And speaking of that, shouldn't the refresh rate be raised a bit? We're not on 1and1 anymore :D
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 11, 2010, 10:27:16 pm
Oh I see.

Well... Tribal just went in the code and managed to change it to every 2 seconds.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 13, 2010, 11:09:56 am
Oh I see.

Well... Tribal just went in the code and managed to change it to every 2 seconds.

Great! And another suggestion: Removing SpyBot's <name> tag. It's not really needed, especially with the (O) that's there.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 14, 2010, 12:06:17 am
Oh it normally is removed, but only when its nickname is SpyBot45 or OmnomBot. Netham45 should add SpyBot46 to the list, too.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on January 06, 2011, 08:08:14 pm
Another suggestion for Jarvis: making the command !quotes (with the extra 's') post the omniurl link to the funny quotes list. That way people can find it easily.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Eeems on January 06, 2011, 08:16:27 pm
A bug that has been annoying me for months now,
Quote
xmlhttp is not defined
   if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4)
OmnomIRC.html (line 55)
You should probably add a test to make sure xmlhttp is defined before you do that check.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 07, 2011, 12:28:40 am
Another suggestion for Jarvis: making the command !quotes (with the extra 's') post the omniurl link to the funny quotes list. That way people can find it easily.
That would be a good idea and possibly reduce quote spam.
A bug that has been annoying me for months now,
Quote
xmlhttp is not defined
   if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4)
OmnomIRC.html (line 55)
You should probably add a test to make sure xmlhttp is defined before you do that check.
What is that? What does happen with this bug?
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Eeems on January 07, 2011, 10:51:58 am
It's just a variable that is being tested for is undefined. Nothing adverse happens other then my console filling up with >9000 errors from it :(
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Tribal on January 07, 2011, 12:26:24 pm
A bug that has been annoying me for months now,
Quote
xmlhttp is not defined
   if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4)
OmnomIRC.html (line 55)
You should probably add a test to make sure xmlhttp is defined before you do that check.

I just edited the if line so it reads 'if (xmlhttp && xml.readyState == 4)' on both the full and normal OmnomIRC, tell me if that fixed the issue.

EDIT: Change didn't go through earlier, fixed now
EDIT2: Apparently that didn't work, and a change later I think it's fixed
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 07, 2011, 06:56:14 pm
Cool to hear, good job Tribal. ;D
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Munchor on January 16, 2011, 04:42:28 pm
Addition of /clear that clears OmnomIRC window, could be useful at some point ;D
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 16, 2011, 05:01:29 pm
I'M unsure if that would be possible, though, due to how OmnomIRC is currently done. O.O

Currently, it uses an iFrame that loads a page showing the last 15 lines of chat.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on March 24, 2011, 12:48:12 pm
*bump*

There are still bugs with HTML entities. It's weird: & shows up as &amp;, meaning it got encoded twice (&amp;amp;, maybe?), and the same with &quot;. But for some reason é and the "actual" special chars don't get encoded.

Also, a suggestion: How about disabling Omnom when the user leaves the page, and enabling it when he returns? Then we wouldn't have to worry about timing out and all that stuff.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Eeems on March 24, 2011, 02:05:16 pm
Also, a suggestion: How about disabling Omnom when the user leaves the page, and enabling it when he returns? Then we wouldn't have to worry about timing out and all that stuff.
That sounds like a great idea, and it's completely doable too.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Ashbad on March 24, 2011, 03:19:43 pm
My request?  Make it work right for Firefox Version 3.6.x :P

As you can see, it shows as normal text for some reason as of late.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Eeems on March 24, 2011, 03:33:49 pm
Strange, I'm in FF 3.6.15 and it works fine for me.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Ashbad on March 24, 2011, 03:34:19 pm
hmm, maybe it's something wrong with my settings?
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 24, 2011, 04:28:31 pm
Strange, I don't have this problem. I use Opera though so I haven't tried in FF.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: mikehill2003 on March 24, 2011, 04:35:12 pm
My request?  Make it work right for Firefox Version 3.6.x :P

As you can see, it shows as normal text for some reason as of late.

Works fine with Opera 11.01 (my favorite :)), FF3.6, FF4 RC, FF4.0 Final, and Chrome, all on WinXP.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 24, 2011, 04:36:17 pm
My concern, though, is that it used to work fine in FF before. Maybe Netham45 broke something or FF broke something.

Does it works fine on FF4?
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Happybobjr on March 24, 2011, 04:37:46 pm
I am in FF and it works just fine.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: mikehill2003 on March 24, 2011, 04:38:24 pm
My concern, though, is that it used to work fine in FF before. Maybe Netham45 broke something or FF broke something.

Does it works fine on FF4?

Just tested on FF4. Works fine here.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on March 24, 2011, 04:40:55 pm
Hmm, I've had that happen before. I don't remember what I was using...
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Netham45 on April 12, 2011, 03:08:57 am
Suggestion: Have the online list so forum nicks are clickable. If it's possible feel free to delete the # char at the beginning. If it isn't, then could you re-add the o logo at the beginning of forum nicknames again because now both forum and IRC nicks has a # in front of them.

Done(finally)
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 12, 2011, 03:29:16 am
Woohoo I'm glad they were finally added. :D

Also I'm glad the o logo was added back, since it was getting hard to tell if someone was on IRC or the forums or both. (Some people got OmnomIRC disabled and aren't on IRC)

EDIT: Bug report (at least in Opera): When clicking a nickname, it opens the profile inside the user list instead of refreshing the page. O.O
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: jnesselr on April 12, 2011, 07:40:43 am
I don't seem tog et that bug, DJ, but the names aren't clickable either.  But looking at the big IRC, that seems to have clickable names.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Munchor on April 12, 2011, 07:45:22 am
I don't experience the bug, I can't press OmnomIRC names.

/offtopic: DJ, that Opera version is outdated, or maybe it's not like mine (which I downloaded a few days ago)
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 12, 2011, 01:47:42 pm
@Graph He fixed it shortly after I posted this, so it should be fine now.

@Scout It's because I hate the Opera 10/11 theme or any theme that looks like Chrome, FF4 or IE9 default themes, so while I use Opera 11, I decided to install an Opera 8-9 style theme instead.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Munchor on April 12, 2011, 01:52:00 pm
@Graph He fixed it shortly after I posted this, so it should be fine now.

@Scout It's because I hate the Opera 10/11 theme or any theme that looks like Chrome, FF4 or IE9 default themes, so while I use Opera 11, I decided to install an Opera 8-9 style theme instead.

I see, also it seems all browsers are imitating Chrome tabs style, Opera, Firefox 4, IE9, all did it!
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Darl181 on April 13, 2011, 01:46:46 am
With FF4 you can disable the bar on top so it's like old browsers...
Myself I kind of like the one-button menu thing.  A lot cleaner, imo.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 14, 2011, 06:58:44 pm
Yeah I know. Also I discovered it's possible to do it in IE too. Personally I dislike the 1 button thing since I was always used to finding my options fast in the menus. Now I have to search a few extra seconds everytime in the 1-button menu X.x. To each his own, I guess.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: ZippyDee on April 14, 2011, 07:02:25 pm
Yeah that's my biggest issue with chrome. One button menu allows for more page space, but it makes it harder to find stuff.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 14, 2011, 07:23:02 pm
Simple bug: Omnom logo is outlined in some browsers.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 14, 2011, 07:24:13 pm
I assume this is IE? :P I noticed that as well actually. I could only reproduce it in it, though. ALso in Firefox there's a vertical scrollbar in the chat area, but not enough to hide text.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 14, 2011, 07:25:47 pm
Nope, Firefox in Ubuntu.
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Netham45 on April 14, 2011, 10:37:29 pm
Stop pointing out how my code sucks! D:
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 14, 2011, 10:51:52 pm
Weird. By the way I like the OmnomIRC disabling link. I hope you can manage to get it to work in all browsers (well... IE doesn't count, though).
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: Netham45 on April 14, 2011, 11:01:36 pm
Is now working in all browsers
Title: Re: OmnomIRC suggestions
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 15, 2011, 05:09:39 pm
I doubt IE counts, but do you think you could maybe move/rename the files to force a cache/cookie update on everyone? That way, users who don't login often will not keep asking every few hour why OmnomIRC is broken because they forgot to clear their cache.

Also after cache/cookie clearing, it's confirmed to work in FF and Chrome. In Opera it already worked.

However, in Firefox the space between text lines is too large, causing some text to be hidden and a vertical scrollbar to appear.