Thread: Chat??

i got on with my username, you dont see it until you send a message

Originally Posted by ucliker

i got on with my username, you dont see it until you send a message

Not for me. I sent a message and it never added me to the "gabbers" list and no one responded either. I don't think I ever got on

Ditto, invalid responce everytime

Steve... there was a "Steve" in the chat room earlier in the day -- wasn't that you?

In any case, I have no explanations for why you failed to get in. On my system during the chat last night it appeared as though there was a dialog between my PC and Gabbly at least once a second, maybe shorter... that's a lot of bandwidth and it requires a fair amount of processing power to keep up. There are so many variables... connection type/speed (eg, dsl, cable, dial-up, etc.), OS (eg, WinXP, Linux, Mac, etc.), Browser (eg, Firefox, IE, Opera, etc.)... and then there are the revisions levels of each, your security settings, cpu speed, etc., etc., etc.! Steve, if you and DwarvenChef can provide some of the details of your configurations, we might be able to sort out some of the gotchas.

Nonetheless, we did hold a chat last night and at one point there was 7-8 people concurrently active. (On a normal chat night the numbers range between 5-15.) Several of last night's participants were on dial-up connections and at least one (uclicker) had significant difficulty keeping connected to the chat. I also noticed several posts in the chat did not make sense... I assume that's because an occasional message was getting lost, but there's no way of proving that.

Gabbly is a bare-bones chat... no frills and few amenities. And at the moment, it's the only game in town.

Originally Posted by azjoe

Steve... there was a "Steve" in the chat room earlier in the day -- wasn't that you?

In any case, I have no explanations for why you failed to get in. On my system during the chat last night it appeared as though there was a dialog between my PC and Gabbly at least once a second, maybe shorter... that's a lot of bandwidth and it requires a fair amount of processing power to keep up. There are so many variables... connection type/speed (eg, dsl, cable, dial-up, etc.), OS (eg, WinXP, Linux, Mac, etc.), Browser (eg, Firefox, IE, Opera, etc.)... and then there are the revisions levels of each, your security settings, cpu speed, etc., etc., etc.! Steve, if you and DwarvenChef can provide some of the details of your configurations, we might be able to sort out some of the gotchas.

Nonetheless, we did hold a chat last night and at one point there was 7-8 people concurrently active. (On a normal chat night the numbers range between 5-15.) Several of last night's participants were on dial-up connections and at least one (uclicker) had significant difficulty keeping connected to the chat. I also noticed several posts in the chat did not make sense... I assume that's because an occasional message was getting lost, but there's no way of proving that.

Gabbly is a bare-bones chat... no frills and few amenities. And at the moment, it's the only game in town.

Joe -

Yes that was me earlier in the day but when I came back for the chat at the regular time, I failed to get on. I didn't do anything different so I'm not sure what happened. Thanks for the offer to help sort out the gotchas but it's not worth trying to solve all the variables for a temporary situation.

I'll wait a time with patience until the chat situation is resolved. In the meantime, if I get a chance, I'll try Gabbly again.

I registered, clicked on the verification email then went back to the site link you sent, logged in and all is fine.

Is there a chat tonight? If so.......is it the same place as last week?