Forum Activity for @brian

Jamroom Hosting Updates

Announcements

We've recently rolled out some changes to Jamroom Hosting - make sure and check out the blog:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/blog/90/jamroom-hosting-updates

Feel free to post here if anyone has any feedback, questions or suggestions

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 04/30/17 02:02:04AM

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Installation and Configuration

Glad to hear it - thanks!

Group Discussions

Design and Skin Customization


It's not hard coded - the number to list is in templates:

jrGroupDiscuss/templates/item_index.tpl

and

jrGroup/templates/item_detail.tpl

Both are {jrCore_list} calls that can be tweaked to suit your needs.

Simple Chat Jamroom 6 - Audible Notification

Using Jamroom


Thanks for the update. With JR's Simple Chat, users must be logged in before they can chat - there's no visitor chat capabilities. Right now the sound is a small .mp3 file in jrChat/contrib/chime/chime.mp3 - we can look at a way to make that customizable in a future release.

So right now if a user is NOT looking at chat and is surfing the web, if a user posts a new message in chat they will see a desktop notification that a new message has been posted. While it doesn't play a sound, it does work well to let you know that there are new items in the chat.

Check it out and play with it a bit and see how it works for you.

Thanks!

Jamroom Holiday Specials

Announcements

Have posted a blog entry about the current specials:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/blog/89/jamroom-6-and-a-holiday-special

Simple Chat Jamroom 6 - Audible Notification

Using Jamroom

It seems a like a feature multiple users are going to request, so let me ask some follow up questions so I'm clear on what's being looked for:

1) The current Simple Chat does already have per message notifications. It uses the Web Notifications API built in to the browser - so when a user posts a new message you'll see a notification in your OS that a new message has been posted. Depending on your browser/OS, this usually is in the upper right corner of your screen (at least it is on Mac with Chrome or FF). We felt this was the best type of notification setup, since it allows the user full control. Is this good enough or must there also be a sound?

2) If there IS a sound that plays, let's imagine a public chat room with 50 people in it all talking away. How do we deal with 1, 2 5 or 10 new messages that all come in at the same time? I'm assuming that you would want per-chat audio controls which increases the complexity significantly, degrades the user experience and gets us into corner case situations where the user could be bombarded by sounds when they are not expecting it.

This is one of those features I can see that starts out as a simple "idea" but turns into a much more complex setup as we have to account for the different use cases and settings that a user might need to "manage" their sounds.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

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Installation and Configuration

Did you run an integrity check after upgrading?

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/new_posts/46096/jamroom-6-upgrade-guide

jplayer alternatives

Jamroom Developers

Thanks for the recommendations - when we start looking into the video player replacement we'll definitely check everything out and try to choose what we feel works best in JR.

Thanks!

Simple Chat Jamroom 6 - Audible Notification

Using Jamroom

We developed simple chat around our use case - as a replacement for Skype. Skype does not chime every time there is a new message, nor (to be honest) is it something any of us would want. I could see that being really annoying, really quickly. However, that's us

I just want everyone to know what is supported NOW, at this time, in the module.

So we can take that down as a feature request for a future release though.

Thanks!

ARRAY?

Using Jamroom

Glad to hear that - thanks!