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Tagged with chat feature-request
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Can chat get a redesign? Please?
I considered posting this on Meta SE instead of Ask Ubuntu Meta, but because several of these are Ask Ubuntu specific, I went with here. That said, I think the rest of SE chat should get an update, ...
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#TheGreatIncredibleHashTag in the chat rooms
Why doesn't at least the chat make use of the # like the questions use tags, so that someone can say something in chat, then do a # with some text with it, and then if someone clicks on that, then it ...
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Chat background for this site is broken
When you access chat in askubuntu, this is what happens:
Perhaps the background of the page should also be orange? Or the logo text turns black and the background white? I mean an orange box in a ...
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Change starring system in chat?
Here a proposal to a new starring system:
I understand that all of the SE devs are in the US and that they're culturally biased to voting being anonymous.
Starring is not voting: it's in a chat; it's ...
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Can we have an XKCD bot?
I was on SuperUser chat the other day, and they had an XKCD Bot.
Can our chat have access to that bot? I'm sure a lot of AU users are followers of XKCD.
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The preformatted text/code text font in chat is not sufficiently distinct
In chat, when putting text between grave accents to ensure that it is output as code, the resulting text is not very distinguishable from the other text:
The only way it's different, right now, is ...
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We should get "Ubuntu questions on SR" notification in chat
In general chat room, we get notification for Ubuntu questions on U&L.
I think it would be a good idea to get Ubuntu questions on SR notification as well.
SR stands for Software recommendations, ...
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`/me` command in chat
In essence, chat should have a /me <string> command.
How it works:
User pacificfils types /me goes to get coffee
Chat prints:
pacificfils goes to get coffee
This would add a nice, simple, ...
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Sweet ping sounds for AU rooms
I always feel the AU chat rooms ping sounds are not very good. (They are intimidating, sometimes actually). I've recently joined Stack Overflow Java and found that they are enjoying a very gorgeous ...
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Is oneboxing for Google+ posts coming to the chat?
Oneboxing is one of the brilliantly useful features of our chat system. Could we also have oneboxing for Google+ posts and profiles? I'm told it's the future.
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Can we have highlighted code blocks in the chat rooms?
At the moment, code posted to the chat rooms only differs in the font that's used. It would be nice if, like in comments, the code was highlighted by a different background colour. The way it is now, ...
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moving question-related discussions from comments to chat seems pointless, destroys clarifying information
After a bit of fact finding back and forth in the comments about a fix-it question, the site will now display something like:
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to
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Stack Exchange chat via Pidgin, Empathy, etc?
Is there any way to connect to Stack Exchange chat rooms in Pidgin or Empathy or a different chat program?
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