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ZGE Chat! (IRC Channel)

Post by Kjell »

Hi everybody,

ZGameEditor now has it's own IRC channel!

Point your favorite IRC Client to irc.esper.net and join #ZGameEditor to chat, discuss and share anything ZGE related.

See you there!
K

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For visiting the chat using your web browser use the link named "Chat" under "Community" section in the sidebar of the wiki. This opens the mibbit-client attached to the ZGE irc-chat.
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Thanks Kjell. Made it a sticky.
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Post by myraneal »

Hey Kjell,
This is great news. I tried to connect to this irc network today using ChatZilla (an irc extension to Firefox) but here is the message I got:
"Banned You are banned from this network: Turkish IP space To contact EsperNet visit http://www.esper.net/contact.php (2008/5/1 10.14)"

I don't know why Turkish IPs are banned from esper.net. Do you know why?

Thanks,
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Try a different server maybe?

Post by slobu »

You might try connecting to these servers instead:

# These two servers are in Europe

* damocles.esper.net
* excalibur.esper.net

# These servers are in North America

* chocobo.esper.net
* cosmos.esper.net
* dream.esper.net
* phoenix.esper.net

It could be your particular Internet Service Providers IP range is being blocked. Unfortunately, Esper.net intentionally blocks Tor so that route is out :(
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Post by kattle87 »

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/category/38/
what about some stuff like this??? Shoutbox and/or chats added to the forums...
What do you guys think about this?
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Hmm,

A phpBB hack to access the IRC channel from the forum easily is certainly welcome .. as long as it doesn't launches automatically .. and it isn't java based ( javascript is fine though ).

And while we're at it .. one of the things that I've seen on other phpBB boards which is quite convenient is a "View Active Topics" link. Any chance this could be enabled on this forum as well?

Thanks ~
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The problem with phpbb2 mods is that they really are "mods" and not plugins that are easy to install. You have to manually merge changed php-files with the code for the mod. And this is difficult when you already have several other mods installed, like file-attachments and some custom anti-spam code that the ZGE forum has.

I guess the proper way forward is to upgrade to phpbb3 which has a whole new plugin-architecture but I'm personally not very fond of that software. I think phpbb2 is nicer to use. It is also very stable. Except from a brief period of spamming in the beginning of ZGE-forum, there have been no problems needed for me to administer which is great.

I don't find a setting for "view active topics". Perhaps it is a mod too? We can install phpbb2 mods if we are sure that they are stable and are worth the effort of installing.
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Well, I suspected you had to modify some stuff... However, this: http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/3985 seems to be rather easy to get working... the install file clearly states:

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## Installation Level: easy
## Installation Time: 2 Minutes
Well, dunno =)
I'm really fine with this phpbb2.0 forum, moving to 3.0 might be a PITA and we have really NO time to waste on forum problems ^^

So Ville, you have to choose what to do... I must say that a Javascript IRC chat is somewhat inviting... Let's say that I might finally park myself (and others might, too!) on the IRC chat... :)
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Post by Kjell »

Hej Ville,

The "View Active Topics" feature is just a search query ( search.php?search_id=active_topics ) .. but perhaps it's not available in phpBB2.

However, I did come across another query which is quite similar ( user specific so you need to be logged in ) and does work.

search.php?search_id=newposts

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Post by VilleK »

Yes that is the "View posts since last visit" on the forum index page. I use that a lot myself. If you have automatic login to the ZGE-forum you can bookmark that link directly to see any new posts with a single click.
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d'oh,

Hadn't noticed that link :P

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kattle87 wrote:Well, I suspected you had to modify some stuff... However, this: http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/3985 seems to be rather easy to get working... the install file clearly states:
It says "javascript" but when I downloaded it the actual irc-stuff is actually an Java-applet. And I'm not a fan of Java in web-browsers.

I looked through the list here:

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/category/38/

From what I could tell they are all either java-based or difficult to install with modifications to the database required.

Perhaps we should look for an separate ajax-based chat-window that we can link to from the forum-index page instead. Phpbb-integration is not really necessary.
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Post by kattle87 »

that's bad :D

Well... I hoped that this integration was easier... Actually, if some ajax code is really easier to get working... =) We choose that! I don't mind having it working in a really complex way... All I think the end user might like is something that directly allows him to chat/post something without needing to be registered... Personally sometimes I feel like registering is pretty annoying ^^ Of course I was really interested in this when I registered, but maybe some other people won't even try to get help because of this.... And that would be bad I think.

PS: http://www.phpfreechat.net/ and https://blueimp.net/ajax/ are the first one I could find ^^

bye bye!
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Post by Kjell »

Hi guys,

Personally I use Miranda ( similar to Pidgin / Trillian ), which does ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber etc .. but also IRC.

But if you really want a web-based javascript powered alternative. Try Mibbit

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Edit - Updated Mibbit link
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Post by kattle87 »

I used that too... but I'm pretty missing the voice functionality ^^
(Under linux, expecially!)
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-=Hugo Rossi=-
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