Questions tagged [chat]
Real time, stateful web chat that's a part of every Stack Exchange site.
56 questions from the last 365 days
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I am unable to upload images with size around 1MB or larger in chat rooms
I guess the official limit is 3MB. But I can't upload them unless they are less than around 1MB. I tested multiple images in different browsers. Same result.
There is no error message in the UI (it ...
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Bolded number "1" next to chat room when visiting chat.stackexchange.com on mobile
When browsing https://chat.stackexchange.com/ on mobile (Safari in my particular case), I see a bolded "1" next to the Teacher's Lounge room:
The bold "1" does not appear when ...
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The whois feature in TL is currently broken
There's a feature that lists and summons mods for a specific site on the teacher's lounge. Currently, it also lists staff with diamonds, which breaks inter site moderator collaboration. Here's an ...
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When cancelling the "Move messages" popup in chat the select feature doesn't go away
When you open the "move messages" popup, then open the "create new bookmark" popup (or in reverse, doesn't matter), then cancel both of them starting from "create new bookmark&...
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The chat filter by "relevance" or "stars" gets reset to "newest" upon changing the query
When you sort chat search by relevance or stars from those buttons:
And then change the query to something else (just one change is enough), it gets reset to the "newest" filter.
I would ...
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Multi line chat messages are now limited to 10k characters?
Since the beginning of chat, multi line chat messages enjoyed the freedom of not having limit, or more accurate, they could reach around 2 million (!) characters.
However, as of few days ago, I ...
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Chat rate limit appears to be gone
Right now, you can post things in chat without any rate limit.
Proof:
(Notice the timestamps. I use an userscript but it's unrelated)
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Inbox notification count does not update for chat [duplicate]
The inbox notification count does not update when I get a new unread chat ping.
For example, before:
After:
However, if I get a new notification on StackExchange sites (for example, via a comment), ...
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Two hard to count the inbox notifications from chat
A decade ago, in 2014 some guy named Jeff Tweeted1:
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Well, somehow this seems applicable here:...
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When I'm answering a question with comments going back and forth, how do I use chat? [duplicate]
When I'm answering a question with comments going back and forth (for more information from the OP), how do I use chat?
Do I:
create a new chat room specifically for that question, or
use a chat room ...
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Footer on chatroom info pages isn't sticky to the bottom of the viewport
The footer element for the info tabs (and some other tabs) in chat rooms that don't have a lot of content height floats above the bottom of the viewport, creating a white rectangle at the bottom of ...
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The textbox for chat suspension length has odd functionality, making it difficult to issue a chat suspension
The chat suspension tool has a textbox that allows you to input a number of hours in before hitting the "suspend this user for..." button. At present, though, clicking directly on the hours ...
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Chat search fails to return more than 10000 messages [duplicate]
Chat search is currently unable to return any more than approximately 10000 messages, instead returning "0 messages found". I'm pretty sure it didn't do that before.
The limit seems to be ...
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Cannot Move Comments to Chat
At the request of Spevacus, I am posting this here. Earlier today, I attempted to move the comments below Proof that a finite field isn't ordered. chat, and encountered the following error:
Now, ...
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Changing a chatroom's details doesn't reload the page
If the owner of a chatroom renames the room, changes its tags or description, or switches it to Gallery mode, the clients of users who are currently in the room will not reload (possibly due to the ...
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Chat's site minilist widget is broken
All of the widgets which are used to select a network site, such as on the room creation page and parent site selector, only show undefined when a search query is typed in; clearing the query shows a ...
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(COMPLETED) - Chat upgrade incoming! No feature changes, but major under-the-hood work
Update October 24, 14:30 UTC: The upgrade was successful, we're continuing to keep an eye on things.
Original post:
TL;DR
We'll be deploying a new version of Chat that has significant under-the-hood ...
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The robots.txt file on chat.stackexchange.com does not work, likely because it returns HTTP status code 418 ("I'm a Teapot")
It apparently used to be the case that the robots.txt file on chat.stackexchange.com allowed search engines to index some parts of that domain; this robots.txt file was apparently intended to allow ...
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How to move a chat under another stackexchange site?
I wanted to open this chat under mathoverflow but instead it got opened under stackoverflow. How can I move it under mathoverflow?
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Spam/offensive chat flag bubbles appearing upon opening chat, but there are no flags
These spam/offensive flag bubbles have been appearing upon opening chat a few times to me today, but there aren't any flags, even if I click immediately after I open the page.
This has happened to me ...
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Chat FAQ section-specific links don't expand, essentially hiding information [duplicate]
Just now I was searching for official information on the criteria for chatrooms to be frozen or deleted, in order to help a user who was asking about it.
The auto-message notifying that a room has ...
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Make non-moderator "move to chat" move all comments and work better with moderator "move to chat"
When 2 users post a few back-forth comments on a post, a user sees:
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?
If clicked, the ...
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Specific feed is being automatically removed when added to a specific chatroom
In Code Golf's main chatroom, The Nineteenth Byte, we used to have a feed posting new challenges from our sister site Code Golf Codidact, specifically the RSS feed https://codegolf.codidact.com/...
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Why is there an "Access level changed: Access now read-write" in my chat reply log?
I see on https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/44764/franck-dernoncourt?userId=44764&tab=replies&StartDate=2024-08-01&EndDate=2024-09-01:
Access level changed: Access now read-write
Why ...
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The SE Chat WebSocket is down, returning status 520 (NS_ERROR_WEBSOCKET_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
On normal chat room pages on https://chat.stackexchange.com, the stock code in master-chat.js tries to establish a WebSocket connection to wss://chat.sockets.stackexchange.com/, which is currently ...
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Username in chat now has wrong color as a visited link
This seems similar to this bug report: Visited chat info page buttons now have a dark background color, making them hard to read. It is now marked status-completed. Maybe fixing the issue in that ...
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Username in chat room info title bar may be partially, or completely, hard to see depending on the window width, chat room and browser
In most cases, the username is shown as white text on a black background in the chat room info title bar, so if the window width is wide enough, it's easy to read. For example, with a maximized window ...
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The link is broken when I click “Enter this room” in “Chat Event Reminder” in my inbox
When I click the enter this room link in the “chat.meta.stackexchange.com - Chat Event Reminder” inbox (in Gmail, not the Stack Exchange inbox),
it leads me to an error page: (the link)
Why that ...
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Visited chat info page buttons now have a dark background color, making them hard to read
I recall that the background color used to be white, but the visited chat info page buttons now have a fairly dark blue or purple type background color that makes them hard for me to read, as shown ...
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Opining on, and making a case for additional classes of data dumps
The data dumps traditionally were primarily meant as an insurance policy against the company going rogue.
Considering that the company 'now' sees the dumps as something they can turn into a product, ...
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Incomplete support for webp images on chat
Recently support was added for webp images across all the network.
Yet, chat was left out. As a result, webp images used in chat do not get oneboxed like other images.
I don't know if this is a small ...
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Feeds do not seem to post updates in chat
The last feed activity in The Meta Room on Stack Overflow is from 2024-06-14. The bot has not posted about new questions in the room since then, even though there have been at least 13 more. Some from ...
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No pong for the ping! No inbox notifications for chat pings [duplicate]
Well, I may have moved my main-site activity elsewhere, but I still talk to people in chat here, so I very much prefer receiving notifications when they ping for me. I mean, how else will I pong them?
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You Shall Stay Here Forever! (aka chat auto leave isn't working anymore) [duplicate]
Normally, after joining a chat room in Stack Exchange, if you close the browser tab (or window) the chat will trigger auto leave after a short while, think it was up to 15 minutes.
However, this ...
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Chat search does not bring up new results [duplicate]
Searching in chat returns results but the newest ones it brings back stop somewhere between 2024-06-14 03:00 UTC and 2024-06-14 04:00 UTC. I did not find the exact point but it should be in this ...
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Some images uploaded in chat cannot be visited via the link
This is an intermittent failure and I cannot find a good way to reliably reproduce it.
Some times when uploading an image in chat it shows up but the link leads to a page that says "oh no, that ...
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Can moderators chat in gallery chat rooms? [duplicate]
When reaching 1k reputation, user gains the create gallery chat rooms privilege, which states:
A gallery chat room allows anyone to enter, but only specific users may talk in the room, as determined ...
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To find old images in chat, you still have to search with the Imgur URL
I was recently looking for a graph I had posted to a private chat room several months ago. In order to find it, I went to search for messages posted by me containing i.sstatic.net in the room I knew I ...
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Cloudflare is causing i.sstatic.net images to return 429s
After loading a chat transcript with a large number of images, requests to i.sstatic.net have started returning 429s and a Cloudflare CAPTCHA check, which... seems to defeat the point of a dedicated ...
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Why was my account suspended for chat in Meta chats by a moderator?
In short, there was a hot conversation today about politics in the Tavern on the Meta chatroom and a moderator ended up suspending me for chat in Meta chats for six days.
I would like to know please ...
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Chat.stackexchange.com chatrooms are broken/flaky
Chat.stackexchange.com seems broken. When entering a chatroom, the loading page stalls, e.g.
And transcripts don't load, instead I get a server error.
Some hints:
this only happens on chat.SE, not ...
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Room moderators should be able to edit the room description and manage lower levels of access
Some private chatrooms, most notably the Teachers' Lounge (the network-wide moderator chatroom), are a special type of private room — a staff-moderated room with appointed "room moderators".
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Chat flag counter on "Main" Chat.SE appears to be stuck
There appears to be a stuck chat flag counter
To replicate: As a moderator go to chat.se, and you see a chat flag counter. Click on it and there aren't any flags, and it vanishes. Refresh or go to ...
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If a comment URL is pasted to chat will the message be retained if the underlying comment is deleted?
Let's say I paste a comment URL such as:
https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/100303/what-are-christian-responses-to-graham-oppys-argument-for-atheism-from-naturali#comment284517_100303
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Please let me edit the titles of chat bookmarks
In chat, you can bookmark a series of messages, going from your start message to your end message. Afterwards, it'll show up at /rooms/<roomID>/conversation/<title>. This is useful for ...
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Bot is unable to access site from GitHub Actions [duplicate]
Since a couple of weeks back, a chat bot I run is unable to access the site, specifically when run from GitHub Actions.
I sent a question about this using the "contact us" form a couple of ...
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The correct use of chat rooms, for new users (improve visibility and description)
This publication is not related to the chat rooms created or derived from the comments on question and/or answer posts.
Maybe this question is bad for old users who already know how to use the ...
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User names wrapped too early in chat transcript (mobile chat version)
On the chat transcript page, usernames are split to several lines for unknown reasons, despite there being enough space on the single line:
After joining the chat, all names fit in line:
Interesting ...
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What is Stack Exchange doing to fundamentally fix the recent and ongoing chat disruption through serial starring of messages?
Many chatrooms right now have someone or something methodically starring every single recent message, disrupting the starboard messages and making stars effectively useless because they're on every ...
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Why is starring a post still allowed for read-only users in gallery mode chat rooms?
The recent mass star-trolling incident made me realize that any registered user can star any message in read-only gallery chat rooms they don't have any write permission on.
This doesn't really seem ...
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