Questions tagged [chat]
Real time, stateful web chat that's a part of every Stack Exchange site.
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LaTeX is not supported in Stack Exchange chat [duplicate]
A very frustrating problem in Stack Exchange chat (especially Mathematics Stack Exchange chat) is that MathJax and LaTeX is not rendered. Can you please fix this?
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How can I invite someone to chat? [duplicate]
I've been using SE for years now (specifically mostly Aviation SE) and still have no idea how to "invite someone to chat".
(Edit: if it matters-- and I'm now realizing that it might-- these ...
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In a bookmarked conversation, quoted text is displayed incorrectly [duplicate]
When I use quote (i.e., a message starting with ">") in chat, it displays fine both in chat and in transcript. But if the same message is rendered differently if it is a part of a ...
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Confusion between data and links pertaining to ASE chat rooms, and those pertaining to Stack Exchange chat rooms
I just entered an ASE (Aviation Stack Exchange) room (after not being in any chat room for about 10 minutes)1, and I saw a message on the right-hand side of my (computer) screen saying "There are ...
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Why am I stuck at entering a chat room?
When I try to join a chat room in a web browser on a laptop running Linux, it is sometimes (and now often, or almost always) stuck with message "Loading [chatroom name]. Just a second". I ...
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Who can see "deleted" chat rooms? What is the difference between a "frozen" and a "deleted" room?
I have a series of questions about "deleted" chat rooms. Likely answers might include: a) Anyone, whether logged in or not. b) Anyone logged in as an Aviation (ASE) member. c) The creator ...
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Don't notify all moderators for flags on "move comments to chat" chatroom
Sometimes when there are too many comments under a question or answer, the moderator will move all comments to chat, which means creating a chatroom and moving all comments to that chatroom.
If ...
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What is the exact program logic so that a chat user is 'pinged' using "@joesmith" in a chatroom?
I would like a definitive program logic description that takes into account all factors below to determine whether or not a chat user is 'pinged' using if I posted a message using "@joesmith"...
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Chat bots are dead, looks like being blocked by something on the server side
For over an hour now, Smoke Detector and other bots in MSE chat are dead and can't post in that chat anymore.
The problem appears to be some breaking change on SE side, though I don't have access to ...
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"0 second ago" should be "0 seconds ago" in the chatroom info page
When you post a message in a chatroom and then refresh the info page immediately afterwards, you'll get this, which says 0 second ago. It should say 0 seconds ago instead.
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Chat is redirecting to Area 51 (2023 edition)
Any https://chat.stackexchange.com URL redirects to https://area51.stackexchange.com.
This started a few minutes ago (as of this posting).
This occurs for all three chat servers (chat.stackoverflow, ...
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Why do I not have the Talkative badge with 47 messages and several have stars?
I noticed a badge (Talkative) and it seemed to me I should have been awarded it. Especially, since I had been awarded a similar Hat (Verified) during Winter/Summer Bash 2022.
The talkative badge is ...
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Area 51 Discuss Link Goes to Old Chat Parent
If you go to Area 51 and click on the "chat" link, it redirects to a list of rooms that seems to be parented to discuss.area51.stackexchange.com, while the parent site that is used for new ...
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Does every SE site have different guidelines for "questionable content"?
While I am aware that every single SE site must enforce and follow the CoC guidelines, and the fact that each site has slightly different site-specific rules to suit their needs, I have been wondering ...
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Error in reputation points from Stack Exchange and main site account deleted [duplicate]
A few months ago I deleted my main Stack Overflow en español (SO.es) account with around 4.5K reputation.
I have created an account again and when I see my reputation in SO.es I have 250 points.
And ...
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Can you appeal accidental chat suspensions?
I recently was accidentally suspended in the Winter Bash chat (about two weeks ago).
The reason for the suspension was that another user flagged my comment (I requested deletion as it had a spoiler ...
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Post disassociation requests should also apply to the author's messages in chat rooms generated from comments on the post
A while ago I made a question, and later decided to be disassociated from that question. However doing so does not completely disassociate your account from this question.
If a comment thread gets ...
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Gregorio Y. Zara hat covers up username in chat [duplicate]
The user Panda currently wears the Gregorio Y. Zara hat. But, now in chat, his username is covered up:
When a user has multiple messages in a row, their username is aligned under the profile image.
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Chat RSS feed for tagged/xxx broken
When you use the tagged/ prefix for a search term in chat, you (are supposed to) get all messages with a specific tag. 1
However, the generated RSS link in the lower right corner of the results is ...
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Add a link to the chat profile in the "profiles" dropdown
Relatively recently, there was a "profiles" dropdown added on per-site profiles with links to their meta and network profiles (excluding here on Meta.SE, not having a meta site):
Now, I ...
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What is the point of not allowing extended discussions in comments? [duplicate]
I don't understand why extended discussions in comments usually get moved to chat. Long threads are collapsed be default, so they don't require significantly more scrolling to get to other content. ...
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Blog onebox always showing the same author, even when the post is written by someone else
For a while now, all the blog posts oneboxed in chat (which is a 50/50 chance, but that's a different issue) appear to be written by Ryan Donovan. However, that's not always true.
The latest case was ...
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A number of things seem to have broken simultaneously
Things that appear to have suddenly stopped working:
Posts not appearing on the front page of Meta Stack Overflow or the "Active" tab for the post's tags + RSS feeds not updating.
(As of ...
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Inbox notification updates broke the chat inbox
The recent changes to the inbox notifications have also broken the inbox in the chat top bar:
The inbox has jumped to be overlaying the topbar, instead of it being in its proper place. There is a ...
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Could we bring chat and meta to the sidebar?
I do realise that there are a few posts asking for these things partially or completely - such as this and this. One of the reasons for introducing the left sidebar was that Teams could be accessed ...
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Add new / low rep users to chat rooms created "continue discussion in chat" by gold tag badge holders (or alike privilege based)
According to Moderator moves comments to chat - can low-rep user participate?, low rep users are allowed to chat when a discussion is moved to a chat room by a moderator, but not when the chat room is ...
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Special characters in moderators' names break formatting in 'whois' response
The Teachers' Lounge has a chatbot with a whois function listing moderators for a specific site. The response is in italics, but it's a Markdown message, and moderator names with an underscore at the ...
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Chat oneboxes are being inconsistent for certain users
For the past few weeks, I have been running a bot in the Sandbox while testing it to replace another, currently broken, bot that posted new posts and challenge sandbox posts in The Nineteenth Byte. ...
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Not enough whitespace in starred chat message due to tags
Starred messages in chat don't have enough whitespace between lines, the problem is most visible if there are tags in the message. In the screenshot it can be seen that there isn't one pixel of space ...
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Chat textarea has a problematic scenario with the current ability to resize it larger vertically
The chat textarea (#input) can currently be resized vertically (and horizontally). To my knowledge, on most browsers, the resize handle is on the bottom left corner of the textarea. Resizing it larger ...
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RSS feed for starred chats does not include starred chat posts
As an example, this chatroom displays the following list of starred chat posts on the right column:
However the RSS does not include links to the starred chat posts:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Chat is hungry in read only mode and keeps quietly snacking on my posts
During today's maintenance period:
I noticed that there wasn't any indication on chat that it was down, and messages would attempt to get posted, just to vanish into thin air, which seems ... rather ...
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Ability to ping chat room owners
A recurring hassle in chat is to get a hold of a room owner when something needs their attention.
As a crude workaround, some rooms have separate guidelines for users with an explanation of how to ...
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Is "Be nice be respectful" policy implemented on main sites and not rooms? [duplicate]
Based on my past experience, I feel "Be nice be respectful" policy or "Code of conduct" is not implemented in chat rooms as better as they are in main sites. Because they have ...
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Chat room appears as text only without any styling
Most of the chat rooms I join appear to me as text only without any styling. Is this because of my company firewall?
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Could SE be *actually* convinced to open source chat?
While usually nothing good ever comes out of Twitter—a recent tweet by the former Community Manager Tim Post caught my eye
I wish we'd put more effort into the Bonfire chat we developed at Stack ...
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Could we get better ways to communicate and apply suspensions on chat?
Chat suspensions are... strange. There's two ways to boot someone off chat - using a suspension on the parent account that's associated with the chat account (And otherwise it's not global)
Suspending ...
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Visibility of frozen and deleted rooms for users below 10k?
I have looked into the FAQ-proposed post: Is there a list of SE chat privileges, and the minimum reputation required for those privileges? (I will add a link to the current revision, too).
I was ...
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The Bridge chatroom is struggling with reopening after the browser has been closed
In The Bridge chatroom, me and a number of other users have the problem that when we close our browser (for me it's Edge 101) and reopen it (for example, when rebooting our computers or signing out of ...
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Wrong number of stars in chatroom information page
According to the badge on this page, the Trashcan chatroom has 7 stars:
but if you count the number of stars under Starred posts, you'll only get to 2. What happened to the remaining 5?
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Appearance of sock puppet-y users in comments [duplicate]
Over the past week or so, I've run into some accounts that seem questionable. I understand that they may not actually be sock puppets as defined below, but they do appear to be users masking their ...
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Chat Event Reminders come from the wrong site
It seems that chat event reminders are sent from the chat user's parent site rather than the event room's parent site.
E.g. this event belongs under Code Golf Stack Exchange, while "mi yodeya&...
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Tags in chat messages unsupported in parentless room
In Charcoal HQ I am unable to use [tag:random-string] in a chat message, while this works fine in other rooms. I was told informally that this is because the room doesn't have a parent site, and thus ...
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Using blockquote in chat doesn't work when it's part of a text block [duplicate]
In the chat, when using a blockquote markup after a line of text, the blockquote doesn't render.
For example, if I try:
text:
> quote
I get this:
What's the correct way to use it in this case?
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The help for chat on pingability is too vague
The chat help pages say
To get another user's attention, mention them – type @ and then the first part of their name. Your mention will be highlighted on their screen – @someone. This will happen ...
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The site icons in all the dropdowns in the top bar on the chat page seem to have... disappeared?
This is how it looks like on any page1 except the chat page:
The site icons are visible here, but on the chat page2, these icons seem to have disappeared (the alignment is messed up as well):
This ...
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"A list of all { } Stack Exchange sites" tooltip shows a different number on the chat page
Hovering over the rightmost icon on the top nav on the main or on the site-meta (as well as Meta SE), shows that there are 179 sites on the network currently:
But hovering over the Stack Exchange ...
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Style for chat top bar is broken [duplicate]
Where to find: the main chat domain. For example https://chat.stackoverflow.com/ or https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/ both have the same problem:
SE chat:
SO chat:
On the top, the user ...
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Chat top bar styling is broken
The most recent rollout of the new top bar design broke the styling for the chat top bar - can this be fixed, please?
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Why has "visit chat" without any chatroom started appearing in the sidebar?
I have noticed recently relatively often in the sidebar a short box saying "visit chat" in places where I was used to see selection of chatrooms.
This happens also on sites which have quite ...
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