As many of you are probably noticing, chat is back up and looking better than ever. Special thanks to Scott for donating the Arrowchat software license that made it possible; rest assured that he was generously rewarded with boon. And thank you for everyone's patience; although it wasn't as easily integrated as I had originally hoped, some assistance from Arrowchat support helped clear up the lingering post-installation issues.
With any luck, this chat should be available to everyone, including our chat-exiled Head of Plot and the players who've been unable to get the old chat working. I plan on customizing the look and feel to match the rest of the site and integrate our standard avatars. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we'll be able to chat with anonymous guests any more, something that I didn't realize until after it started working this morning. With any luck, that will become a feature in a later upgrade. In the mean time, at least we can chat with one another again.
I'm able to get it to work just fine with Chrome as well. So far its been a pretty solid system, albeit lacking a bit in some of the features we've been used to up until now. On the upside, the company is doing a lot of work to adding these same features into the system and with any luck we should be getting them back soon. Oh yeah... and no more annoying little Ad box and after a few hours of sorta just idling, I haven't seen that annoying "Loading....." message show up that eats all my chat messages. :)
Hey Thad, great to see the new Chat up! Any chance we'll be able to make it work with Chrome?