[catherwood]

xnbomb wrote:

plugs wrote: Not working for me at all. Just getting a red X :( There are a few reasons this might happen. But one that I found last week is that the applet doesn't seem to work with the latest Java Runtime Environment. Uninstalling it and then installing an older one seemed to work better.

This is true. The unfiction chat applet is out-of-date, but Chat Solutions (where the unfiction chat is hosted) has a better java chat applet for your browser. Try this:
http://www.chat-solutions.org/chat/unfiction.html
(much easier than uninstalling good software, and it has more features than the old applet)

[xnbomb]

plugs wrote:

Not working for me at all. Just getting a red X

There are a few reasons this might happen. But one that I found last week is that the applet doesn't seem to work with the latest Java Runtime Environment. Uninstalling it and then installing an older one seemed to work better.

[plugs]

Not working for me at all. Just getting a red X

[ncfriend]

thanks xn... how did you get to be so smart?
foshizzle!

[xnbomb]

There has been a certain amount of turnover in the Chat Solutions servers. The safest option is always to try and connect to irc.chat-solutions.org, because that should in theory get you to some active server. As of the date of this post, the three servers that I know of on the network are asteroid.chat-solutions.org, radiant.chat-solutions.org, and stardust.chat-solutions.org. I suppose individual IPs for these could work as well, but I have no idea if the ones listed in the java client's pulldown match those of the current servers.

(And although it is now gone ... foshizzle forever!)

[ncfriend]

Quote:

# rc.chat-solutions.org # riprock.chat-solutions.org # irc.chat-solutions.co.uk # cristal.chat-solutions.org <-- see below, this no longer works # foshizzle.chat-solutions.org # radiant.chat-solutions.org <-- new added early 2007 # 69.28.250.135 # 217.160.211.173 # 69.28.250.199 # 69.80.195.68 <-- new added early 2007

how many of these are actually working for anyone using Chatzilla?

[Ruuku]

I would love a new haircut, thanks Santa!

[SpaceBass]

Re: I want to have a chat made for Sector Seven

[Alsray]

 I want to have a chat made for Sector Seven

[imbri]

Just an FYI - I've split the growing meta discussion off and put it into the Meta forum. It's a great meta discussion - what happens where, are the non-chatters left out, how can we best share between chat & the forums, etc - that comes up every now and again. So, if you're looking for such a discussion go to this thread in the Meta forum. Please keep the convo here on problems and issues related, not to chat, but to the actual unfiction java client. Thanks

[thebruce]

I'm getting it regularly on and off both at home and at work using hydrairc. At first I thought it was firewall, then I thought maybe I somehow got banned, but some days it works, and some not, sometimes at work and sometimes at home. Is chat-solutions having some intermittent server problems? Or am I alone on this entirely?

[catherwood]

Kain211 wrote:

Connecting to server... Unable to connect to server Connecting to server please wait....

This is probably because chat-solutions recently retired the cristal server (and added a new one named riprock). I've been getting the same initial failed connection at work, but a few minutes later it does connect (probably to foshizzle but I haven't checked.)

This has nothing to do with your browser or platform. I'm not sure if SpaceBass needs to alter the launch code in the Java applet, to get it to look for another server. I'm surprised that yours doesn't eventually connect -- try again later, as there are occasional outages.

(this is, of course, assuming that you have been able to connect in the past, and that this is a recent change in behaviour for you; usual disclaimers about firewalls still apply.)

[Kain211]

Hey guys, just tried to get on chat and got this kickback

Connecting to server...
Unable to connect to server
Connecting to server please wait....

and it stayed like that for 10 minuites before i closed it..and i also tried it on fire fox and IE, i get the same response. Any ideas?

[molecularr]

I just want to add that the reason the original Ny Takma thread got so long was mainly that we were still in News and Rumors and couldn't spread out. We got much more organized in ARGs with Potential, especially when we got a wiki .

And wrt to chat, I agree that too much chatter can crowd out the useful info in a thread, but it's pretty easy to skim through chatter, in my experience. I think it's more important to foster openness and casualness, and much that is productive like speculation or strategizing comes about from casual conversation. Basically, I don't think anyone should be in a position where they refrain from posting because they're afraid someone else might think their comments are "chatter." Conversely, no one should feel left out of a community because they can't or don't IRC. So it's a balance between two extremes, but I think ideally anyone posting in a community like this one should be able to figure out how to contribute effectively to the conversation pretty quickly.

[Phaedra]

Re: neatness rocks, clutter sucks