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First thing that comes to my mind : MSN-like ‘Now Playing’. The ‘What song are you listening to right now’ thread is the most-replied thread, and second most-viewed thread of the ‘General Discussion’ board. VLC Media Player allows you to add LUA plugins. It should not be too hard to build one that uses the API to update one's status. It should be especially easy given that there is already a similar plugin that writes current song's info to a file : https://addons.videolan.org/p/1172613/ In fact, take this post as a pledge that I will do it within a week if you release an API... as long as nobody beats me to it. :þ

This looks like a great feature. :-) I haven't been excited by a power like this one for a while. Why ? I want to use this feature in my own RPG. I'd like to update players' name with their level. Why can't I use this feature ? What if I want to tell people what game I'm playing ? Running binaries from bot provider on my computer is a no-go. Are the changes temporary ? eg. do they roll back when I refresh ? Do they affect every chats I'm connected to, or only one chat ? Does this mean I need a xatbot, FEXbot and ARCbot accounts to ensure my power will work on most of the chats ?

Oh yes, you're right. My bad !

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There seems to be a bug with the (random) power. Using (random) as an avatar with a pcback does not display a random smiley. Instead, it displays (RANDOM) Source (xat wiki) Expected behaviour: avatar: (random) Current behaviour: avatar: (random)#

I noticed this feature disappeared a few weeks ago. Any plans on getting it back ?

Correct me if I'm wrong : nowhere in the rules it's stated that you have to give away the riddle you found. So congratulations everyone on spoiling your chats' riddles :-) (Or was it edited recently ?) Chatname: xat_test Answer to the riddle: https://xat.com/xat8 Username and ID: XeR (586552)

@SlOom @Lamingtons You are right, this is doable by specifying a cn parameter. Cn probably stands for "connection". It's an integer that is used to comunicate between a chat and its sub-apps. The main problem is that if you open more than one chat with the same CN, it will not work. If you open two apps with the same CN, it will mess up too. I didn't manage to find a "user-friendly" way to deal with this. But to be honest, I barely use apps at all, so I didn't dig much. The best thing I manage to do is this, but it requires you to constantly have a console opened the random number written on it. :-( Generated by: lobby.bat @echo off SET flash=flashplayer_sa.exe SET url=https://www.xatech.com/web_gear/chat/chat2.swf SET chat=1 SET flags=14880 SET cn=%RANDOM% START %flash% "%url%?id=%chat%&xc=%flags%&cn=%cn%" echo "CN = %cn%" PAUSE trade.bat @echo off SET flash=flashplayer_sa.exe SET url=https://www.xatech.com/web_gear/flash/30008.swf SET /P cn="Enter CN number> " START %flash% "%url%?cn=%cn%" I'll edit first post once I -or someone- comes up with a decent solution.

Hello everyone, I've been fed up with Flash Player for a while, and decided to remove it from my browser a few months ago: Flash is a technology that's bound to die. It was great a decade ago. Now it's only serving noisy ads and malware. However, there's a problem: Xat uses Flash. No Flash = No Xat. I had to find an alternative. Now that I'm confident it's working, I'll share it with you. That's what I've been using since 2016-05-15 (5 months) The trick is to use Flash's standalone player. This way it will ONLY run what YOU tell it to run. Here's what it looks like: Unfortunately, there are a few things that do not work, and this is therefore not suited for everyone's use (eg. traders) What works: Regular chatting Smileys Hugs Kisses Bumps Game bans Transfer What does not work: Are you a human (cannot join during raid protection) Apps: Trade Translate Smiley list Avatar list Games ... Rapid bulk connections may log you out. (eg, if you're using a loop to open multiple chats) It is possible to use side apps such as trade, but it is a pain to set up… I'll explain if you guys want it I'm looking for a more user-friendly way. How to install (Windows) This installation guide is for Windows-based operating systems: I do not own a Mac, and I doubt many people here use Linux. First, go to Adobe's FlashPlayer download page, right here: https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html What you're looking for is the "Flash Player projector", no ActiveX, no NPAPI, no PPAPI, no debugger. People runing Windows 8.1 or higher may have to skip this. I don't have a single clue where Flash is installed. Put this file in a new folder. Open Windows's notepad, and paste the following code: @echo off SET flash=flashplayer_23_sa.exe SET url=https://www.xatech.com/web_gear/chat/chat2.swf SET chat=1 SET flags=12832 START %flash% "%url%?id=%chat%&xc=%flags%" File > Save as > change "Text file (*.txt)" to "Every files (*.*)", and name it as "lobby.bat" Move it in the folder you previously created, and double click it. If everything goes well, you will see a new window, and you'll be connected to Lobby. From there, you can /go to other chats (eg. /go xat5 or /go xat_test) Configuring the code @echo off will hide debug output. We don't need them. SET flash=... will set the "%flash%" variable to hold what's after the =. It must match Flash Player's executable name. SET url=... will tell what URL we want. chat2.swf will make every chat debug (blue ball) while chat1.swf will make every chat regular. SET chat=... will set the chat ID. Lobby is 1, chat is 123, xat5 is... 5. SET flags=... this one is hard to explain. It sets some configs. This value means "no radio, mute, disable auto login" Picking a chat ID You may want to use a different chat ID, because nobody wants to go to Lobby. This is simple : go to any xat, for example xat.com/XeR Click on the embed link, and look at the address bar. You'll see a number after "?id=...". This number is the chat ID. For XeR's chat, the chat ID is 171661491. I'm logged out ! How can I log in ? In a very similar maneer, you'll need to use this piece of code : @echo off SET flash=flashplayer_sa.exe SET url=https://www.xatech.com/web_gear/chat/chat2.swf SET user=<username> SET pass=$<number> %flash% "%url%?id=8&xc=%flags%&em=%user%&pw=%pass%" Log in as usual. When you're at the last step, when you can change your security settings, right click the page, and show its source code. Find "pw=$" (you can use ctrl-f to open a search box) DO NOT SHARE THIS NUMBER. WITH ANYONE. EVER. You should see a integer. Replace the $<number> with this integer in the previous script. Double click it, and you'll be logged in. :-) Feel free to tell me your impressions about this, and ask questions if you don't understand something.

Every URL that contains "xat" is blocked. Try modifying the URL of your blog posts to replace xat with xt or x4t

It seems like xat.com is the first Google result again

Awwww come on, you've just gave away the keylogger prevention technique I've been using for the last few years There is absolutely no problem with Flash. The problem is that the login/register pages filters inputs to prevent attacks. You can see a similar behaviour on the search page: search for a$b, it will search for ab instead.

Your account is your identity. It is ranked on chats you go, it is tied to the regname people knows, it keeps your friends in its friend list. Even if you don't have powers on it, it's a great part of you on xat. I own two accounts that I never use. No shortname, no powers, no xats, no days. I recently moved, and required an ISP update. With the new policy, I would have lost them. They are 5-digits and are worth much more than 1k xats. That doesn't make any sense! Nobody cares. Let's sumarize the information we have instead: People can create tickets to recover their account They can even if they are not paid user The account will not be recovered if it is considered worthless The volunteer crew was (is?) running low. Three volunteers have been recruited recently. I went to the General Support section Number of questions in June: 15 + 3 + 6 (as of 06-26, so not a full month) Number of questions in May: 41 + 3 + 7 Number of questions in April: 20 + 1 + 9 Number of questions in March: 18 + 2 + 4 Let's assume tickets number and support posts are proportional. June is similar to April and March. So tickets number is probably "average", with 3 more volunteers. Official twitter mentions the following: (Image courtesy of SlOom) My opinion: The tweet looks like a ban wave gone wrong. The new ticket policy may have been made to deny those targeted by this ban wave from getting access to their account. What would motivate a ban wave? Lots of phishing? Virus targetting xat? We saw that it is likely that the number of tickets is average, so probably not. Honnestly, I don't have the slightest idea. Maybe someone will manage to connect the dots by reading my message? An official statment from @Admin would be nice... (I can dream, Harold!) PS: This post took a while to write, that's why some part of it have already been said in previous posts.

A while ago, someone mentioned that bot hosters will end up leaving, and that it would be a good thing if bot hosters could make a tutorial to explain how to create a bot from scratch. Since the main tool used to understand how xat works is considered a virus by most antiviruses, the project could not be endorsed by xat, and we were asked to use a different tool. In the end, nobody did it. Such a guide would probably not be endorsed by xat, because it encourages those who follow it to break the terms: "You will not modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the service" (oh, and you're supposed to be supervised by your parents if you're under 18) (Don't take the rest of this post for yourself.) On second thought I think it's a very good thing: Runing a bot hoster requires a patience and skill. We've seen enough ephemeral hosters. Hosters that were run by greedy users who ran a script from the internet because "those guys make money". I don't want to see more of them. What's the point of offering a low quality service? If you couldn't figure out how to adapt a bot from an outdated source code -you get a bonus point if you start from scracth-, how will you add features? How will you fix bugs? You won't. And it will die. I spent countless hours working on the first Ocean versions, looking at packets, replaying them, emulating the behaviour of a real client, trying to figure out why chat kicks me out randomly, what E25 stands for… It teaches you a lot about how networking xat, and its protocol works. It's not something you can learn by watching a video. By following a tutorial you're going straight to the point, never failing. Poking at stuff and watching what happens is definitely the best way to learn. You have no idea how stupid and stubborn people can be. No really. Even when Ocean was a free service people were impatient and constantly complaining. ( This is the main reason I stopped working on Ocean. Why would you spend most of your free time working for ungrateful people? However, if you still want to run your company, keep in mind that it's all fun and games until they demand features. The great lines are: - Learn a programming language - Learn how networking works - Reverse and understand xat's protocol - Emulate the client's behaviour - Add features one at a time Good luck.

Best bot ever Brace yourselves, people selling OceanProject with few additions (if any) are coming.