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  1. Steven

    xat Ideas

    Alternatively, xat stops letting main owners manage their chats the way they want, they get tired of it and move their community to Discord. Now all those users are off of xat.
  2. Steven

    xat Ideas

    That would make private chats an absolute cesspool. Trolls would be immune from punishment. False accusations of bad behaviour would be rampant. This would invite scammers and dangerous users back into chats on their main account. They'd be auto-banned by bots on most chats every time they appeared again, essentially creating a forever ban. Nobody valuable to the community is leaving xat because they keep getting permabanned. Trolls who evade bans do so by changing their IPs. This would do nothing. See above point. People who want to do this would change their IP and xat would have no way of knowing. 100 xats doesn't buy much, and would buy even less if everyone got a weekly allowance. Inflation! You are allowed to run your chat how you wish, as long as you abide by the xat terms. Almost certainly not possible nor helpful as discussed in that thread. Very few people join new social platforms from Google search results in 2024. Marketing products/services/platforms has evolved past search engines. The truth is, few (if any) of these suggestions are possible, and none would grow xat's audience by any meaningful number. I appreciate that you are trying to provide helpful suggestions to save the site, but I think you need to spend more time thinking about why people are leaving and why new faces are not joining.
  3. The community has been asking for a paid support rep for more than a decade. If xat didn't hire one when the website was more popular, I'm sure they won't hire one when their revenue is a fraction of what it once was. (I don't pretend to know the financial situation of the company but the active user base has shrunk considerably).
  4. We're on our second page of replies. People are writing novels. About a few chat groups being listed on a Wiki page that, in 2023, is checked by... 5? people a day. It's not as if "tribute" status is providing some benefit to these chats or their owners, nor that they're holding spots other worthy groups deserve to take. Is this really something that contributors (who, let's be real, did very little even when there was plenty to debate and do even less now) and volunteers need to take anger over? The answer is no, by the way. This is not a significant enough topic for anyone to be worked up.
  5. Long, long time coming... congrats Lem
  6. Steven

    NOTES Power

    Someone with more knowledge than me would have to step in here, but I can't imagine that a user's notes about someone is legally classified as personal data? Good question, though. I am not sure. I think the date of the notes helps to mitigate this, but as you mentioned, I do think the expiring portion of the function is important to help with this. (There could be a "forever" option for when the note is to be left forever).
  7. Steven

    NOTES Power

    xat is pretty developed at this point, meaning that almost any function power is probably more of a "nice to have" than a "need to have", meaning not everyone is going to use it. I think function powers at this point add nice additional functionality for a small portion of the userbase who sees benefit to the features they offer, and I think that's fine. With that being said, while I agree it's a niche power, I don't see why it applies more to officials vs non-officials. Any chat with a consistent userbase could utilize the power, and not every use case would be negative. If there's anything I've learned over the years, it's that people on this site are creative, and I think a power this wide-open provides a lot of unique value in a lot of unique situations. Although, I do think it's reasonable to add this as a basic unpaid feature as well if xat would rather, as Sloom suggested.
  8. Steven

    NOTES Power

    Each user would have different notes on different chats because the point is to send internal messages to your fellow staff on each chat
  9. Steven

    NOTES Power

    I'd like to suggest a new group function power that would help chat staff communicate about specific users of their chat groups. For all of xat's history, many chats have implemented punishments that "stack" - a kick for first offense, a short ban on the second, a longer ban on the third, etc. But it's been difficult to keep track of what punishments one user has received, especially if one is guilty of more severe rule violations with days in between offenses. Owners have also historically chosen preferred temp mods, and with them, preferred durations. There have also been users who follow all the chat's rules but, for whatever reason, are not trusted to moderate the chat in times of need. But how do owners communicate this info to other owners? Notes power would solve these issues. It's simple: the ability for staff to leave notes about users on their chats. It would be accessible from a simple button on the main user window: The button would bring up a list of all notes stored about that user. As you can see from this example, @Flake has not been on his best behaviour lately: The Notes window would show the notes in order of recency, along with the user who left them, and the rank of that user. (Notes written by owners should carry more weight than notes left by mods). Some additional features/ideas: The window could be accessible from the ban, kick, and temp-rank windows There could be an indicator on the button to show that there is a new note (within the last 48 hours) for this particular user, to remind staff to check the notes before banning/kicking Notes could automatically expire after a certain time period There could be an option to only show a specific note to specific ranks (a main owner may only want to show notes about mods to owners and not other mods, for example) Notes power could stack, meaning by default, 1 note per user would be allowed at a time, with more notes becoming unlocked as more powers are assigned This could cause some conflict if the above suggestion was implemented as mods would know there was an owner note on someone if they saw none but were unable to add a new note Main owners could control what ranks could remove notes left by other users via the group page A different version of this power showing the most recent events for a user (bans/kicks, anything that shows up on Events page) in an in-chat window could be made to serve a similar purpose, or to compliment this power Would love to hear your feedback.
  10. I think the first two people to say this probably got the point across! I think this especially because the poster already acknowledged it themselves!
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