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Having a chat server for every site
This might seem like a stupid question but I recently found out (okay maybe not that recently) that there are unique chat servers for Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exchange. Why cannot we have a chat ...
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Should election chatrooms have a different status when pruning/freezing rooms?
On smaller sites there isn't too much activity in chat - so it is not that surprising that if an election room was created, the "main" chatroom1 often gets frozen (since it was inactive for ...
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Chat menu design
If you go to any Stack Exchange chatroom site (e.g. Stack Exchange Chat) the top bar is different than the regular pages. This should be changed to the 'modern' design; if not possible, could you ...
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Can this note be changed: "This room is frozen; new messages cannot be added."?
When a chatroom is frozen, only moderators can chat in the chatroom.
While the room is frozen, only moderators can talk. A room freeze prevents room owners from participating, and prevents the room ...
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Why doesn't Stack Overflow have a "Chat" link like the rest of the sites? [duplicate]
In the footer (bottom left corner) of every site in the network there is a "Chat" link, for example:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & USAGE
Tour
Help
Chat <----
Contact
Feedback
Mobile
Disable ...
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Let's use Town Hall chats to bridge the gap between company and community
It seems that Stack Exchange is doing an increasingly poor job of communicating with the community about policy changes, decision-making processes, and problem solving. This has caused or exacerbated ...
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Chat links and links to site from chat inconsistent behaviour
In the top right menu where you can access the chat of the Stack Exchange site you're on, the link doesn't open a new window.
While once in the main chat room of the site, if you click on the link to ...
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Autotranslate to English in chat flags
Recently while in a chat room, a chat message from another room popped up as having been flagged, however the entire text was in Russian, which necessitated needing to open up google translate to get ...
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Chat not always HTTPS [duplicate]
Sometimes in the chat rooms, I see a warning icon instead of the normal green lock in Firefox.
Looking through the "More Information" area, I see that the site is trying to load http://cdn.sstatic....
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Could we tie site suspensions to chat suspensions globally?
As things are now, site suspensions for a user's parent site result in chat suspensions. It works fine, unless of course, a malcontent has a different site as his parent and pops over to troll you. It'...
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Name change retroactive in comments, but not in chat [duplicate]
On this question, I exchanged some comments with someone going by the name "user6292850 and continued that discussion in chat. Later, I returned to see that the comments were now attributed to a ...
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Keep pinned messages pinned (without 14 days limit) in chat rooms
I've read this answer to find out that pinned messages are being unpinned automatically after 14 days because "we found this feature to be abused too much". I fail to understand how a pinned message ...
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Is it more intuitive to "show frozen/deleted rooms" based on the site that you're currently on?
As a moderator on Sports SE, I utilize chat often.
TL;DR Is it more intuitive to "show frozen/deleted rooms" based on the site that you're currently on given that upon entering chat, you are ...
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Chat room owner should be able to change the room's associated SE site
I propose that a chatroom owner should be able to change the chatroom's associated SE site. I recently created a chatroom to promote the Korean Language proposal at
https://chat.stackexchange.com/...
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RFC: Better chat @mentions – A prototype
Status: 75% - We have a prototype to play with the UI
Previous RFC: RFC: Better chat @mentions
Problem Statement & Background
Please see the previous RFC.
Proposed solution
The feedback to the ...
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