Ferenc Simon said
Hey guys,

 

I haven't posted anything in a long time since I barely even played violin recently (but more on that later..).

Coming back I noticed that the old website chat window completely changed and imo. for the worse. Now I don't know about you guys, but I don't really like it.. it's clunky.. it leaves the tooltips on my screen when using Chrome.. makes an annoying sound when somebody types that I cannot separately mute and it just feels kinda slow. I much preferred the old one.

In the past few months I started live-streaming videogames / etc.. on Twitch (it's like the much much bigger brother of StreetJelly I guess.. owned by Amazon) as part of a way to improve on my social-anxiety.. meet new people.. etc. etc.

When it comes to communication, the gaming industry nowdays pretty much relies on a platform called Discord. It's completely free.. supports text channels... voice channels.. voice / video - calls.. permissions / roles / pinned messages.. and so much more.. It has a fully functional mobile app as well.. so nowdays companies are starting to use it as well.

So looking at that, I was wondering whether it would be possible to have a text channel from discord embedded on a website as a chat and did a quick Google search to find these results:

(There's also always the possibility of Fiddlerman having it's own discord server to allow members to connect better..)

The advantage of this new chat is that we own the app and do not need to use an external server. We were paying $20/month for the old one and now nothing.

I can mute the sound. I just need input from everyone and not just one person. Another person told me that they missed the sound. I can make all kinds of changes but we need to be democratic about it.

Now obviously this was just a random idea and I figured I'd throw it in here. Maybe the person who is responsible for developing the Fiddlerman website can find them useful.

Cheers,

Ferenc  

PM me with any suggestions, but at this moment we are using WordPress for this site. I'm the only developer and administrator for now. Not having education in web development I do the best that I can.

Thanks for your ideas.

Ferenc Simon said

Sorry if it came out the wrong way or anything, I wasn't trying to 'sell' anything or such.. Everything I suggested is completely free and open source as well.. I simply figured I'd drop the idea along with some feedback and the reason I didn't pm was the exact same reason, so we can see what others think and be all democratic about it.

Maybe changing the sound to something less aggressive like a beep that only triggers once per message would be an option (currently it sounds like a rifle being loaded when I have my speakers on and the first time it really scared me as I had the volume quite high and didn't know what it was). Obviously the perfect solution would be a mute button on the chat so people could decide whether they want the notification sound or not, but that might be hard to do.

What I noticed though is that way less people are active on chat then they used to be.. and initially I thought maybe it's because of the new chat interface, but that could also be the fact that people are more busy since I last was active around here.

In any case, just wanted to bring up the subject as I really liked using the chat here in the past and it always had plenty of active people and new guests jumping in. And also I remembered you having a person responsible for managing the website, the one who was changing the colors and stuff like a year ago, didn't know you're the only 'developer' now so yea, I completely understand.

Hope you're all doing great!

Ferenc  

This is the problem.
Can't preview the sounds.