Yeah the Shoutbox doesn't even display on a phone. Hopefully if on its own page it will.
I'm not sure how moving the Shoutbox behind the "Chat Room" tab would work on mobile. It should work okay, but again, we don't have access to that. That's something Tech would have to do. It's too bad we can't help you guys out/experiment.
...maybe I'll email him.
But I did experiment with my phone. I put it in desktop view, and zoomed in on the shoutbox and made a couple replies (that I deleted), and it worked okay! Maybe that's a short-term solution? Or simply use a thread if most of you are on mobile? Mobile is smooth and fast.
Yeah the Shoutbox doesn't even display on a phone. Hopefully if on its own page it will.
I'm not sure how moving the Shoutbox behind the "Chat Room" tab would work on mobile. It should work okay, but again, we don't have access to that. That's something Tech would have to do. It's too bad we can't help you guys out/experiment.
...maybe I'll email him.
But I did experiment with my phone. I put it in desktop view, and zoomed in on the shoutbox and made a couple replies (that I deleted), and it worked okay! Maybe that's a short-term solution? Or simply use a thread if most of you are on mobile? Mobile is smooth and fast.
This is what I have to do on my Cell when I am watching Bear games and keeping up with my Bear Fam. You also have to make sure the little refresh tab is hit otherwise you will be a bit behind in responses lol.
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Looks like creating custom pages is beyond my pay grade, so we're going to need someone with the proper credentials to contact me so I can walk them through it haha.
Let me know if you have access to Structure > Custom Pages on the admin panel.
We need a chat. Popout box is garbage. Like the old site better.
I don't know what a popout box is lol. I seriously don't see what's wrong with the shoutbox other than it's at the bottom. Which I can't move atm. Well I could move it to the top or side, but not to it's own page without TechLion. The shoutbox is the exact same thing as a chatroom otherwise.
You're definitely not going to like any of the free 3rd party chatrooms that are available for proboards. I set one up on our board just to test it, and it's awful. Come over and look at it if you want. But as I said earlier, you'd have to sign in separately and have separate moderators for any 3rd party chatroom you use. And you have to pay for all the halfway decent chatrooms that are out there. I love you guys, but I'm not buying you a chatroom lol.
Heres a question...is there a way to pop out the shoutout box and/or maximize/adjust the box size? That would probably take care of it
You can have 2 tabs or 2 windows open of the board, one where you have the shoutbox centered and minimzied, and the other where you browse the forum. Then there's an extension or plugin you can install on chrome/firefox to have a window always stay on top, which you could use on the shoutbox window.
You can have 2 tabs or 2 windows open of the board, one where you have the shoutbox centered and minimzied, and the other where you browse the forum. Then there's an extension or plugin you can install on chrome/firefox to have a window always stay on top, which you could use on the shoutbox window.
Still no way to adjust the size of the shoutbox though, as far as I can tell. I agree with Felix I think if we could adjust the size of the box it would solve our problems. The way it is now, you can only see about 6 lines of chat before having to scroll up. So on a game day if a bunch of people are chatting unless you're reading every shout in real time you will constantly have to scroll up to see the "shouts" you missed.
Obviously those colors can be changed to match this site (I used Honolulu Blue). There is also an option to have it just be a little icon in the bottom right.
Might be something worth looking into. Looks like you don't need to register with Chatango either, you can just put in a name (which I realize could open another can of worms). If you ever hear from TechLionTechlion1 I'd be happy to do some site admin stuff.
Obviously those colors can be changed to match this site (I used Honolulu Blue). There is also an option to have it just be a little icon in the bottom right.
Might be something worth looking into. Looks like you don't need to register with Chatango either, you can just put in a name (which I realize could open another can of worms). If you ever hear from TechLionTechlion1 I'd be happy to do some site admin stuff.
And yeah I laid out all the problems with it earlier. You have to always enter your own name so people could pretend to be someone else. Like I could join the chat as blamingbobby. I think there's small risk of anyone actually doing that however. There's also no way to moderate the chat. I see no tools to mute, ban, or kick anyone, so that could be a problem. Again probably a small risk here. I'll look into resizing the shoutbox. I know it's possible if you move it to it's own window like we're trying to do, we just don't have access to custom pages, only the main admin does. I think we can even resize the shoutbox at the bottom.
Yeah I can resize the shoutbox. I made it a little longer. We could customize it more too, like less padding between names, maybe even remove the border around each message etc. I actually did all that too, removed the annoying border around each message and closed the gap, so many more messages fit on the screen now haha. I'll change it back if you prefer.
A lot of visual stuff is controlled via the style sheet which I have access to. I just can't move it to it's own page unfortunately, only TechLion.
Yeah I can resize the shoutbox. I made it a little longer. We could customize it more too, like less padding between names, maybe even remove the border around each message etc. I actually did all that too, removed the annoying border around each message and closed the gap, so many more messages fit on the screen now haha. I'll change it back if you prefer.
A lot of visual stuff is controlled via the style sheet which I have access to. I just can't move it to it's own page unfortunately, only TechLion.
Thanks Reignman. That does look better, especially if we can get it in its own window.
Post by goldenlions on Sept 3, 2019 7:05:37 GMT -6
Is there a way to just keep the shoutbox to the LRZ Chat link and remove it from the bottom of every page? If anyone would like to keep it on every page that is fine, but I would only use the Shoutbox for chatting on gamedays and not for anything else.
If it is not logistically possible then it is fine. I would like the shoutbox to be something that only those with login privileges can see, if that is possible.
Is there a way to just keep the shoutbox to the LRZ Chat link and remove it from the bottom of every page? If anyone would like to keep it on every page that is fine, but I would only use the Shoutbox for chatting on gamedays and not for anything else.
If it is not logistically possible then it is fine. I would like the shoutbox to be something that only those with login privileges can see, if that is possible.
I changed permissions so that only members are able to use the chat room. The shoutbox should be removed from the bottom of the page.
Is everyone ok if I point lionsredzone.com to this board. If I do that we will not have access to the old board.
So there wouldn't be a way to set it up so we could still access the old site with a different URL (kind of like we do for this site now, but it would be something like lionsredzone.xenforo.com or whatever)?
Either way, it's cool, especially if you are still paying for the old site. I just like to be able to go back and see how right I always am about this team (and all the other slappies who weren't).
Is everyone ok if I point lionsredzone.com to this board. If I do that we will not have access to the old board.
So there wouldn't be a way to set it up so we could still access the old site with a different URL (kind of like we do for this site now, but it would be something like lionsredzone.xenforo.com or whatever)?
Either way, it's cool, especially if you are still paying for the old site. I just like to be able to go back and see how right I always am about this team (and all the other slappies who weren't).
I would love to archive the old board and change the URL but I would need a tech guy to do it. I'll try to find someone do but it's not easy.
After years of being absent I found you guys! I'm Mel down in Jacksonville originally from Downriver / Wyandotte. Tech and Golden and a few others might remember me when we all hung out down here in Jacksonville when everyone came for the road game oh I don't know like a decade ago. LOL
Just saying Hi to everyone and I'm glad to find you all.