Board Thread:2017 - A Year of Ambition/@comment-1824169-20170208011132



A large majority of users have started using BTFF's official Discord instead of chat because Discord is convenient and Wikia's chat system kinda sucks. However, the Discord's userbase is absolute cancer when they become unregulated, so some people prefer using chat. As such, I've decided to take initiative and add some new features to the wiki chat to make it less crap. Again, no voting thread this time around, since these are all features that are either optional or relatively minor.

Keep in mind that these changes are currently awaiting review by the slow as hell Wikia staff, so it could be a day or two before they actually go into effect. I'll notify all of you when the update is approved.

New Messages Notification
If you have Chaturn opened in another tab, a number will display on the tab when new messages are sent to indicate how many new messages there are. This way you no longer have to keep manually checking if there are new messages. There is an alternate option for this script that does essentially the same thing, but it makes the tab blink, which I imagine could be annoying for some people. If you want the blinking extension, you can find it here and pop it into your personal JS.

Automatic Emote Refresh
Tired of having to refresh chat every time a new emote is added? Tire no more, as this update will automatically refresh the chat's emote cache every 30 seconds without making you reload.

Emote List
Speaking of Emotes, do you ever forget the specific usage phrase for one of our hundred or so emotes and have to track down the MediaWiki Emoticons page to find it? You won't have to do that anymore, since Chaturn now has a drop-down emote window that will show you and let you pick from every available emote without having to look them up.

Chat Images
One of the most useful parts of Discord is its ability to display images directly in the chatroom. With this extension, you can now do the same with any image uploaded to the wiki! Here's how you use it:

Chat Edits
Have you ever wanted to edit a page or check Recent Activity without leaving chat? Hell if I know but now you can do that because why not. Here's the command list: Now obviously some of these commands are admin/chatmod exclusive, but the rest should be handy if someone notified you on chat that you're missing a page category or something and you want to take care of it right away. 