other weird ideas

[healthforms]

ok i realize this format is for problems not ideas but here's my list of ideas / observations for this software

if would be best if links opened in a new window or tab by default. it's too easy to absentmindedly click a link and leave the room.

also when you come back to a room that's still going, it takes a lonnnnng time to reload all the comments. it might be best to just wipe clean at this point?

i was on the chat allll day, so having tons of words on the screen might be a cause of some of the problems. i was thinking that it might be nice to have a bot that comes in once every two hours or so and announces "i am about to wipe the screen" then counts down from 10 and blasts everything clean. is this crazy? or, is there another way to clear everything other than convince everyone to leave and come back? or spawn another room and migrate there?

weird stuff happens because of autocomplete in the posting window, or if that's not the cause, it's it's own weird effect that when you type it's suggesting things you already said. is there a way to force the browser to not remember what you typed? is there a form type that denies being stored this way?

some html works (including marquee!!!!) but images don't. it might be fun to be able to post images although at the same time i could see this being a danger area.

[saranrapjs]

issues is a misnomer / this space is 100% for ideas as well!

if would be best if links opened in a new window or tab by default. it's too easy to absentmindedly click a link and leave the room.

donezo though i gotta update bigboy

also when you come back to a room that's still going, it takes a lonnnnng time to reload all the comments. it might be best to just wipe clean at this point?

i think we can cap the number of old messages read. one funny aspect of this: right now the names themselves are messages; e.g. when you change a name, that (under the hood) is a message, which means that if less messages get read, some people would get "scatman'd" over time. maybe this is nice? i can also go back to names being stored alongside the message, but i'm kinda into the renaming being another message for some reason

i was on the chat allll day, so having tons of words on the screen might be a cause of some of the problems. i was thinking that it might be nice to have a bot that comes in once every two hours or so and announces "i am about to wipe the screen" then counts down from 10 and blasts everything clean. is this crazy? or, is there another way to clear everything other than convince everyone to leave and come back? or spawn another room and migrate there?

when tom and our friend thomas & i were originally playing around with this, i actually wrote a bot to do the opposite: being a permanent "peer" which replicated stuff even when ppl left the chat. i'm kinda jazzed that you're interested in the opposite, since this was what i was into in the first place: the chat is peer to peer, so there's a "last one to leave the room turn the lights out" vibe.

because this is 100% a custom chat, there are no rules!!! one idea that could get at this: what if there's a special kind of message that, when anyone posts it, it clears the screen for everyone? there could be an arms race component to this, on the other hand, it could be a fun ceremony. sort of reminiscent of when you clear the terminal, in a way

[healthforms]

what if there's a code that if two people say it in sequence it clears the chat?