1,481 thoughts on “Quick Chat”

1. Marko AuthorJune 9, 2011 at 12:48:59

   Quick Chat v1.62 is out. For anyone who was affected with the potential database bug QC should work now. Everyone else with problems please post here and I will look into it. Cheers!

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2. Timofey June 9, 2011 at 14:00:48

   @Marko
   Now it works, thank you !

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3. Marko AuthorJune 9, 2011 at 15:06:44

   @Timofey
   No problem my friend, if something Quick Chat related doesn’t work, just post here 🙂 And Freeman user discovered this bug so we should all thank him, thanks Freeman again.

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4. Rebecca June 10, 2011 at 04:29:41

   I’ve got your chat running on my site, and while it works fine for me (I’m on Windows, using Firefox 3.6), my husband who is running OS X with Firefox 4.0.1 is not showing the chat updates/refreshes. Is this a FF 4.0 issue, do you think? Any fixes?

   http://thequiltingspot.com/chat/

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5. Marko AuthorJune 10, 2011 at 07:52:18

   @Rebecca

   Did you happen to put quick chat shortcode like this: <code>[quick-chat]</code>? If you did that this will brake your chat. It looks like this is the problem and <code></code> tags should be removed. Please report if this was the problem 🙂

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6. JL June 10, 2011 at 19:01:18

   Hi Marko,
   I see the js code in my source but the chats do not appear after the submit button is fired.
   I tried deactivating all plugins but that did not help.
   Also, how do you create different chat rooms for the user to choose from?
   Thanks!

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7. Marko AuthorJune 10, 2011 at 21:04:35

   @JL
   Hi, as for the chat not appearing problem it would be best if you could give me your URL so I could take a look. About rooms if you embed your chat as [quick-chat] or [quick-chat room="default"] you get default chat. You create other chat rooms by using something like [quick-chat room="room1"], [quick-chat room="room2"] etc. Wherever you use [quick-chat room="room1"] to embed chat, this will show same chat. For sidebar you enter room name in Appearance -> Widgets -> Quick Chat. Same thing apply. If you enter “room1” as room name, your sidebar shows room1 content, same like [quick-chat room="room1"] embedded chat. There are no restrictions, you can have multiple chat rooms sidebar widgets, embedded chat rooms all on same or separate pages. You can even have one page with 10 instances of same chat room and sidebar with that chat room on the same page 🙂 Feel free to use your imagination 🙂

   Edit: Hi, my emails to you are not getting trough 🙁 I’ve checked your url and client side looks fine. There must be something with the server side or database. Can you please check your wordpress database using phpmyadmin for table named “wp_quick_chat”? Does it exist, and if it does is it empty?

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8. John Lytle June 12, 2011 at 18:01:22

   Hi Marko,

   There was a table there for quick Chat but the plug in must not be finding it.

   I had changed my wp_ prefix in my db as a security measure so perhaps the plugin broke when I changed it.

   I’ve tried to delete the table and reinstall the plugin from scratch and the quick_chat table is not getting created. Does it only get get created when successful chat is initiated.

   Thanks1

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9. John Lytle June 12, 2011 at 18:24:39

   Marko,

   I got it working again. I just deleted everyting in the options table adn the other main table, reinstalled and its cooking again…
   Pretty cool too. I added a lot of rooms and styled it up.. looosk sharp. These people are serious chatters so I’ll let you know if they adopt it or if they beg for me to put Chat blazer back

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10. Marko AuthorJune 12, 2011 at 19:12:36

    @John Lytle
    Hi nice to hear you got it working. And yes, changing wp database prefix broke it. It was necessary to recreate table and WP options. Cheers!

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11. zaka June 15, 2011 at 02:56:30

    I would like to add a smiley icon,
    whether it is okay?

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12. Marko AuthorJune 15, 2011 at 10:23:07

    Hi zaka. Sure it is OK if you know how to do this. By the way you should remove smilies borders on your chat by adding div.quick-chat-smilies-container img{border: none;} at the end of quick-chat.css file 🙂

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13. zaka June 17, 2011 at 03:52:00

    @Marko
    okay thanks, my account just ask permission from making so
    I’m very pleased

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14. fastharry June 18, 2011 at 17:33:40

    hi Marko…I installed quick chat on my site to give it a try…I have one question…is it possible to show a “chat not available” message to visitors?…thanks

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15. Marko AuthorJune 18, 2011 at 19:53:52

    @fastharry

    Hi! If you check “Only logged in users can use chat” options inside Settings -> Quick Chat then your site visitors will not be able to participate in chat (they will be able to monitor it but not to send messages). This could be what you need?

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16. fastharry June 18, 2011 at 20:20:21

    Hi Marko, thanks for writing back. I kind of wanted to leave it open so anyone can chat with no problem. I just wanted a way to let visitors know that no one at fastharry.com was online to answer back. This way they don’t get annoyed when they don’t get a response….Maybe an auto-responder with an away message would be good in the next release…

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17. Marko AuthorJune 18, 2011 at 20:52:28

    @fastharry

    I had in plan for Quick Chat the who is online system but never got time to implement it because it isn’t exactly trivial to came up with quality efficient solution. On this site I use WP UserOnline plugin until I implement something more advanced into Quick Chat. This way users know (should know 🙂 ) when I’m online to assist or answer questions. WP UserOnline isn’t realtime so that is the aspect I plan to work on. Also I could implement something like away message so thanks for your idea, hope you and your users have fun with Quick Chat.

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18. fastharry June 18, 2011 at 23:43:16

    Hi Marko…I installed the user online plug in…Not sure how to make the users page…I know this is not your plug in, but do you have a quick answer?..if not, no worries…Appreciate all your help…Have a great weekend…Harry

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19. fastharry June 18, 2011 at 23:51:23

    @fastharry

    Marko, never mind, I figured it out…Thanks!

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    1. Marko AuthorJune 19, 2011 at 15:19:39

       @fastharry

       I’m glad you got it figured out 🙂

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20. Marko AuthorJune 19, 2011 at 21:24:49

    Hi people, one of the most wanted Quick Chat features is sound for incoming messages, so that’s what I’m working on right now. But I need your help. I must come up with the notification sound. Any ideas? What we need is wav file length about half of second, any suggestions? Thanks in advance 🙂

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21. miguel dias June 20, 2011 at 12:27:52

    well i think you should focus on the “who is online” and not so much on sounds for chat messages, even though that’s cool too, still whats the point of sounds if you don’t know if the chat room is filled with people, if it has people you might know or if you are all alone.

    still i think the sound/sounds should be down-toned and not the most common bling! thats even more annoying, here are some samples > http://www.mediafire.com/?tyt2gu4hss38ehf

    ^_^

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22. Marko AuthorJune 20, 2011 at 15:54:16

    @miguel dias

    Hi Miguel. Thanks for your thoughts and you’re right that who is online is the most important thing. But it is the feature that requires the most time to accomplish so I don’t want to start it until I’m not certain I will have time to implement it in the most efficient way. Also the way things are with QC, everyone is on chat just by visiting page (when Quick Chat is in sidebar) so for pages with hundreds of visitors things would get very slow. Anyways it will require some creative thinking to implement who is online the right way. Until then you can use WP UserOnline plugin that I will most probably use as base for Quick Chat who is online code. 🙂

    Also thanks very much for your samples I will review them, I wish there is time for some kind of poll but messages notification thing is almost ready, all we need is sound files and Quick Chat next release is out 🙂

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23. Marko AuthorJune 21, 2011 at 08:34:04

    Hi people, it would mean much to me if you can test Quick Chat with “Audio” enabled and report results with your browser name and version. If you have modern browser like FF 3.5 and up, Chrome or Opera you should hear nice bird singing once you send or receive new messages. If “Audio” works ok I will upload new Quick Chat version 1.70 to the official WordPress repository. Thanks 🙂

    Here is changelog for upcoming Quick Chat 1.70:

    • Full WordPress 3.2 compatibility
    • Incoming/outgoing messages notification sound for any modern HTML5 audio tag enabled browser
    • Delete messages without reloading page (ajax)
    • Force removal of borders and padding from smilies (some themes add these and then smilies look funny)
    • Minor bugfixes

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24. Dragiša June 23, 2011 at 00:36:31

    Marko, dali znas dali je ovo bag u mojoj temi, ili je problem u plugin-u? http://prntscr.com/24er8 Smajliji imaju belu pozadinu umesto da bude providno?
    Hvala unapred! 😉

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25. Marko AuthorJune 23, 2011 at 00:55:08

    @Dragiša

    Bok Dragiša. Pozdinu smajlića nisam definirao već je ona preuzeta iz tvoje teme. Ovo bijelo bi mogao biti i border ali morao bi mi dati link pa da pogledam točno. I jedno i drugo se vrlo lagano popravi editiranjem quick-chat.css datoteke, ako ne znaš javi pa ti napišem. Pozdrav!

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26. Dragiša June 23, 2011 at 01:05:38

    Adresa sajta je innaserbia.com, koristim modifikovanu evolve temu, pogledaj pa ako uspes da saznas sta je javi, mozes i na moj e-mail , hvala! 🙂 @Marko

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27. miguel dias June 23, 2011 at 12:28:46

    Oh just a few ideas…

    im not too sure if its a good idea to put the “who is online” feature on the sidebar, since a chat on the sidebar is already a bit of a drag on any site, having something pulling users (even with cache and a big timeout) would be a even greater load on the whole site and quick-chat is supposed to be clean and simple, i think the more complete embed on the page version should have who is online (probably the classic mirc bar on the side with a scrolling list of names), but on the sidebar not really, especially cause if you are going to put it on the sidebar, then everyone on the site will have access to it (makes the “who is online” feature less useful).

    also in my site how would the sidebar “who is online” handle 1000 people, how would it display all the names? just a number?

    the wp-useronline is to know who is on the whole site, my wp-site has almost 10.000 users, there are plenty online all the time, not all of them would be on the chat page for sure, i would say a minority ^_^ when i enabled quick-chat only for the admins/moderators it was funny but not useful, there was a lot of “are you there?” kind of thing during that test week, so for me the “who is online” is the killer feature for quick chat hehehe, besides that, just improving performance ( thats a feature ) and maybe add a tweak here and there would be all thats needed.

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28. Marko AuthorJune 23, 2011 at 14:25:12

    @miguel dias

    Thanks for your ideas, you are right in being careful with adding who is online mostly because of performance reasons. Who is online is the next thing for me to implement, but I must sit in front of the drawing board and thing how to do it best. That’s why I haven’t implemented it yet. Thanks again, cheers!

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29. Jim June 23, 2011 at 19:53:11

    Thanks for the great plugin! Can you advise what change I would have to make to enable all logged-in users to delete post entries? Currently, only the ‘admin’ has this option, and we want to give our users more control. Thanks!

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30. Marko AuthorJune 23, 2011 at 20:20:57

    @Jim

    Here you go, feel free to donate if you can afford it:

    Quick Chat 1.71 JE (a.k.a. Jim Edition )

    Enjoy. 🙂

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31. robert June 23, 2011 at 21:23:55

    Marko,
    I love your chat plugin. It is SUPER. One question, If you enter a url in the text box when it posts into the chat window is there a way to enter it so that a user can just click on it to open the url instead of copying it and pasting it in their browser? Also, is the a way to post an image.
    Thanks
    Bob

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32. Marko AuthorJune 23, 2011 at 21:58:53

    @robert

    Hi robert. Making links requires some modification of QC code to recognize URLs and to turn them into true links. Inserting images would also require adding code, not hard but requires time. You can hire me to do both so I could leave my own work aside to add this to QC or wait until I have time to implement those options in Quick Chat. Cheers!

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33. robert June 23, 2011 at 22:39:44

    could you send me a quote in US dollars for modifying the code to recognize URLs. You should have my email address. when I sent a comment I typed it in.
    Thanks
    Bob

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34. Marko AuthorJune 24, 2011 at 00:12:28

    @robert

    I’ve sent you email to the email address you’ve provided. 🙂

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35. Jim June 24, 2011 at 01:31:41

    @Marko Wow – you are awesome! Thanks for the unbelievably quick response. Yes, I’ll definately be donating!

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36. Marko AuthorJune 24, 2011 at 01:39:58

    Jim :

    @Marko Wow – you are awesome! Thanks for the unbelievably quick response. Yes, I’ll definately be donating!

    Thanks in advance 🙂

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37. Austin June 24, 2011 at 05:00:26

    Previously I was not able to post message but with the help of a person named “Dragiša” on this site, I got that fixed. But, now I have new problem, When the chat is on the page, the page never finish loading. In chrome, the page loading wheel that appears on top never stop loading and if I press the stop button of the browser then further messages are not received on the chat. This is the same in all other browsers (Firefox and IE 8)

    Please help!

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38. WWW June 24, 2011 at 07:34:41

    @Austin
    The same problem. It’s annoying. Any chance to fix this?

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39. Marko AuthorJune 24, 2011 at 10:46:27

    @Austin

    Hi. What you describe is not a bug. Quick Chat in a way never really closes connection to the server because it needs to receive new messages. Google Chrome counts this as page loading even though page is fully loaded. This is design decision by Chrome team to show spinning circle in this case.

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40. Austin June 24, 2011 at 11:28:19

    @Marko
    I understand that but, on here (techytalk website) the spinning circle doesn’t last and the favicon appear after few seconds… but not on my website. Really confused, I use Chrome for both the website… :S

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41. Marko AuthorJune 24, 2011 at 15:30:56

    @Austin

    I understand that this is unwanted behavior no mater whose bug this is. I will try to inspect this spinning wheel thing and If I can do something to avoid it, I will do it. I’ve noticed that spinning wheel on Chrome sometimes doesn’t show up. It seems like Chrome has some kind of heuristics that tells it is page still loading and that could explain this behavior. Here’s the link to the discussion on this topic on Stackoverflow:

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2703861/chromes-loading-indicator-keeps-spinning-during-xmlhttprequest

    You can provide us with workaround if you find one. Quick Chat is open source (GPLv2) code and everyone is welcome to help out 🙂 I’ll keep looking and testing. Cheers!

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42. Marko AuthorJune 24, 2011 at 21:39:04

    @WWW

    Sorry your comment got stuck in askimet spam filter. I’ve included workaround for Chrome spinning wheel problem in Quick Chat 1.72 version. Enjoy.

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43. fastharry June 25, 2011 at 17:20:15

    Hi Marko…just sent you a letter regarding the spinning wheel in Chrome…I have the new 1.72 version and it is still spinning no matter how many times I reload the site…http://fastharry.com

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44. fastharry June 25, 2011 at 17:23:01

    fastharry :
    Hi Marko…just sent you a letter regarding the spinning wheel in Chrome…I have the new 1.72 version and it is still spinning no matter how many times I reload the site…http://fastharry.com

    I am leaving chat enabled for the time being so you and anyone else can try to load the site…If anyone comes up with different results, let me know…

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    1. Marko AuthorJune 25, 2011 at 18:11:11

       @fastharry

       Hi!. First thing I’ve noticed that fresh loading of your home page takes around 1.2 Mb which is around double as TechyTalk.info together with advertisement. Your 100Kb header picture at isn’t helping to speed things up 🙂 But that shouldn’t be a problem if there weren’t for the Google Chrome. The thing is that Google Chrome has problems distinguishing between page loading and ajax Javascript calls issued after page has loaded. I can freely call this a Google Chrome bug because no other browser has that kind of problems.

       I’ve worked around this problem by adding tiny 1 msec pause between page loading and first Quick Chat ajax call and that helped all pages I’ve tried with Google Chrome. You can try to make this pause longer and then Google Chrome would have easier task in removing spinning wheel before Quick Chat starts it’s first ajax call. You can find this setting in your wp-content/plugins/quick-chat/js/quickchat.js file on the line 206 from Quick Chat 1.72 version. There you will find setTimeout("quick_chat_update()", 1); where this 1 is pause time in milliseconds. Try to put something like 500 or bigger value and reduce it until you find smallest time where Google Chrome doesn’t leave wheel inside favicon.

       And once again I think that your problems are related to the page loading size and the fact that your page loads forever on my mobile broadband connection (HSDPA). So whether you keep Quick Chat or not, you should take your site on a diet by removing unwanted wp plugins and stuff like that 😉 Thanks for reporting this, it would help a lot if you could write back with your findings.

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45. fastharry June 25, 2011 at 18:29:33

    @Marko

    before I do the above mod, I removed QC from the site…let me known if it loads faster for you, esp on the broadband connection…

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46. Marko AuthorJune 25, 2011 at 19:47:01

    @fastharry

    Many people are using mobile broadband and many even use 56K modems especially in less developed countries. Maybe it sounded wrong but I was trying to help. If I would get offended every time when someone tells me “you shouldn’t do this this way” or “this could get improved” then I would be offended all the time. Any software like Quick Chat or your web site doesn’t go anywhere without feedback, you should value it instead of getting offended. Cheers!

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47. fastharry June 25, 2011 at 20:10:03

    Marko :
    @fastharry
    Many people are using mobile broadband and many even use 56K modems especially in less developed countries. Maybe it sounded wrong but I was trying to help. If I would get offended every time when someone tells me “you shouldn’t do this this way” or “this could get improved” then I would be offended all the time. Any software like Quick Chat or your web site doesn’t go anywhere without feedback, you should value it instead of getting offended. Cheers!

    I did value it, trust me, absolutely did not take it the wrong way….I just want to see if it makes a difference before I do the mod…I appreciate all the help you are giving me…Once I get the chat back up, I will start pulling the plug ins off one by one and see which one I can get rid of…

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48. Marko AuthorJune 25, 2011 at 20:12:31

    @fastharry

    Great to hear that! Thank you for your help on making Quick Chat better 😉

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49. fastharry June 25, 2011 at 21:03:39

    Marko :
    @fastharry
    Great to hear that! Thank you for your help on making Quick Chat better

    Hi Marko..I took your advice and optimized the header image from 112 kb to 46 with no difference in quality….Let me know if it is any faster reloading…BTW, how could you tell how much KB i am using?

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50. Marko AuthorJune 25, 2011 at 21:12:03

    Fastharry.com does load little faster, looks like you got around 100KB down and that is great. To see load data statistics you can use Google Chrome “Developer Tools”. You go to Wrench Icon -> Tools -> Developer Tools and click on the Network tab. Then you clear your history and reload page. You will see all that is loading on a time line where you can see what is taking longer or slower. In the bottom it shows “xx MB transferred”.

    Edit: You can also click on “Size” title to sort requests by size so you can compare.

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