Advanced Members Popular Post LaFleur Posted May 19, 2020 Advanced Members Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2020 #chats - Easy editing. New features. Mobile-friendly. #chats is the brand new platform that contains: # create group # edit group # events Each page comes with major improvements and/or new features, which are mobile-friendly. Our highlight is #editgroup, which will bring a new and better experience for managing your group. A quick overview of #editgroup features and changes: Change group and chat background color (with a color picker). xatframe group styling Add mobile-only background. Simple tabs editing. Group power search, filter and import/export. Add and manage main owners, who can edit your group with their account password. Once logged into the edit group menu, you see the #editgroup interface: The new #editgroup comes with 5 tabs: # appearance # tabs # settings # group powers # main owners # miscellaneous and an additional tab for embedding your group. Let’s take a tour through each tab. Then we’ll check out the changes for create group and events. But first a big thanks goes out to @SLOom who has been highly involved in this project! #appearance This is where you can customize the look of your group. You can change: Group background. Group custom CSS: A separate field is added for CSS code only. Once you type here, the group background field will be overwritten and disabled. NOTE: Custom css will not be supported on the new web, use xatframe instead. Group xatframe: This is newest feature that allows you to change the background style and content of your group using a html xatframe link. Only new web. We currently only allow github.io links. See more information about this feature, here. Chat background. Chat button color. Mobile portrait background. This is where you can set the mobile-only background. Please note that this will work after the next mobile app update. #tabs With #tabs, you can simply edit the bottom tabs that are shown on your group. If you have no tabs set, you first have to add one by clicking the green plus icon. You also have the option to restore tabs from a backup file by clicking the yellow back icon. Once a tab has been added or once you have restored your tabs, you can change the default tab name and add content to your tab with the new modern editor. You can also remove a tab by clicking the red X icon. Something else that was not possible on the old design is the ability to change the order of tabs. To do so, simply click the blue arrow icon. In the pop-up window, click the tab name and use the up or down button. The last option, by clicking the yellow back icon, allows you to download a backup of your tabs and restore the backup. NOTE: Changes only take effect after clicking the save button! #settings This is where you can alter the configurations of your group. The first part allows you to change your group information, change the language of your group (for xat homepage lists and promotion) and the radio station that is played inside the chat. You can also add a buddy group or set your group to HTML5 by default. #group powers The #grouppowers tab comes with many new options and an entirely new look. Assigned and un-assigned powers are now differentiated. Depending on the power, an entry can have an input field, an edit button or nothing. Clicking the edit button will open a pop-up window that makes editing very simple. More new features are: Total assigned: See how many powers you have assigned in total. A search bar: Search by power name or power ID. Filter Option: Show assigned, un-assigned group powers only or both. Export/Import: You can now export your power configurations and also import them. In the pop-up window, you can also specifically select which powers you want to export or import. It should be noted that powers with default settings cannot be exported (but if there is one customized value, it can be exported). Neither can you import if the import file contains a power that is not assigned on your group. Activate/deactivate all: With this new option, all powers that are currently shown (considering your search or filter) are activated or deactivated at once. Gcontrol: Two new Gcontrol options come with the new editgroup: ‘Can Mute’ - Select which rank (mod-main) is able to use Mute power. ‘Can Delete’ - Select which rank (mod-main) is able to delete chat messages. #mainowners With this tab, a brand new feature has been added that allows you to easily manage your main owner team. You do not have to share your group password anymore! The design is as follows: You can add new main owners by their username or ID. Once a new user has been added as a main owner, they obtain main owner rank on the chat. Furthermore, they get access to the edit group. In order to do so, they must log in with their user account password (from xat login). By default, they can then edit all four editgroup tabs: appearance, tabs, settings and group powers. Permissions power - If a group has the new Permissions group power assigned, you can also add selective group permissions. For example, you can add a user who will only have access to the “appearance” tab. This power is not yet available due to public beta. More information will follow soon. Main owners that have been added are shown in the list below. To update the permissions of a main owner, you must simply re-add them. To remove a main owner, click the icon in the “remove” column and confirm the deletion in the pop-up window. Further notes: Main owners do not have access to the “Miscellaneous” part in the settings tab, even if “settings” is chosen in permissions. Only the actual group main owner can use those options. Once a new main owner has been added on the new edit group, all existing main owners (which were added on the old web) will be removed automatically. Furthermore, you cannot become main owner on the old web version, which will soon be removed. If a group owner used the “get main” button in #setting, they will be automatically added to the #mainowners list. #embed Upon clicking the tab with the purple embed icon at the very right, a window pops up. Here you can copy the code for embedding your chat group on an external page. You can change the size either by clicking the Small, Medium or Large button or manually by changing the width or height on the input fields. The input values are proportionally changing, meaning if you change the width, the height will automatically adjust. The code is updated automatically too. #miscellaneous Lastly, we have the miscellaneous part. This is the sensitive part and contains 5 buttons with each opening a pop-up window to complete the action. manage: Make and restore a backup file of your chat users. change password: Change the group password. get main: Get your main owner rank back if you lost it (e.g. by guestself). reset: Reset your chat. delete group: Cease managing and delete your group information. #creategroup The overall look for the create group page has been refurbished. It also comes with minor improvements compared to the older version, such as better descriptions and the removal of unused content. #events Just like the other pages, #events along with eventstats has also been improved with bug fixes and a mobile-friendly design. Events changes and fixes: On the Type field, you now see an icon depending on the type. “Promotion” and “restore” (Manage power) events would not show up; this has been fixed. By clicking the ID1, you can demote the staff if you have a high enough rank. Doing so will now open a pop-up window to simply execute the demotion. Slotban has been added to the “power” selection. Issues with redcard events have been fixed. “Make guest” type has been removed as this is included under “demote to guest”. Multiple types such as dunce, badge and naughty would not work when choosing types; this has been fixed as well. ...................................................................................................... Try it out: Go to your group. For example: https://xat.wiki/html5?new Top right menu, hover over the "group" dropdown and click on "customize". You can also click on the "edit your chat" button on the HTML5 chat. We welcome you to provide feedback, suggestions and bug reports. It was a long journey to get this ready, but we are happy with the results and hope you are too! 18 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Brandon Posted May 20, 2020 Advanced Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 I thought I'd come out of hibernation to say that this is really great work! Congratulations to all involved in the ongoing efforts in modernizing the site. I'd also note that I was thoroughly confused with the branding of this as #chats. I'm still a little confused actually. It appears to be a group of product changes branded as #chats. If it's for editing or creating groups, events, etc, I wouldn't necessarily brand it as #chats because it implies changes to the core chat product (although I know those changes are ongoing too). Thanks! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Leandro Posted May 20, 2020 Advanced Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 If im correct this was the final design that needed to be changed to HTML5, right? Either way, it looks amazing, and huge congrats to LaFleur, Junior, Sloom, Maverick and everyone else involved with this new page. It really looks clean and amazing. For me, the biggest feature has to be the new adding Main Owner feature. It will make the chat a lot more organized and won't cause any more issues with Main Owners and all that bad stuff in the past . Also, the additional options and miscellaneous buttons just seem too big in my opinion, could make them a little smaller too? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteers SLOom Posted May 20, 2020 Volunteers Share Posted May 20, 2020 57 minutes ago, Leandro said: Also, the additional options and miscellaneous buttons just seem too big in my opinion, could make them a little smaller too? It won't be possible unfortunately. Back in a time when we had tested with small button but it was breaking with some languages, so we decided to use big buttons. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Daniel Posted May 22, 2020 Advanced Members Share Posted May 22, 2020 (edited) On 5/19/2020 at 9:22 PM, LaFleur said: #mainowners Further notes: Main owners do not have access to the “Miscellaneous” part in the settings tab, even if “settings” is chosen in permissions. Only the actual group main owner can use those options. Once a new main owner has been added on the new edit group, all existing main owners (which were added on the old web) will be removed automatically. Furthermore, you cannot become main owner on the old web version, which will soon be removed. If a group owner used the “get main” button in #setting, they will be automatically added to the #mainowners list. The wording here was a bit confusing. This clears it up for me: anyone who logs in with the group password can access the miscellaneous and mainowners sections, and anyone who logs in via their account password cannot (even "the actual group main owner"). I also believe miscellaneous should be moved to it's own tab to avoid confusion with this: Quote "Main owners do not have access to the “Miscellaneous” part in the settings tab, even if “settings” is chosen in permissions." It should just be completely separate and have no permission option. Also, within the appearance section of edit group, there's two background boxes and to me it wasn't immediately clear which one is which, as "group" doesn't really describe the page the chat is on, in my opinion. The top box should probably be labelled "outer background" and the bottom "inner background" as these two words are common xat terminology. Edited May 22, 2020 by Daniel 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Leandro Posted May 31, 2020 Advanced Members Share Posted May 31, 2020 Are we going to be able to remove assigned powers from the Group powers tab? Just as we can activate and deactivate them, there should be an option to unassign certain (or all) powers from the chat as well. Maybe like an X button: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteers Junior Posted May 31, 2020 Volunteers Share Posted May 31, 2020 6 minutes ago, Leandro said: Are we going to be able to remove assigned powers from the Group powers tab? Just as we can activate and deactivate them, there should be an option to unassign certain (or all) powers from the chat as well. Maybe like an X button: Well, assign/unassign will be added on the chat soon. But I don't get why a main owner would want to do that when they can just uncheck it, that would be the same I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Leandro Posted May 31, 2020 Advanced Members Share Posted May 31, 2020 1 minute ago, Junior said: But I don't get why a main owner would want to do that when they can just uncheck it, that would be the same I guess. I say it for people who may have trouble doing it, and if someone else (besides the main owner) assigned the powers and that person would want to unassign them and is having trouble with it. 1 minute ago, Junior said: Well, assign/unassign will be added on the chat soon. I'll wait for that option then 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Daniel Posted June 15, 2020 Advanced Members Share Posted June 15, 2020 The "export" button on the group powers tab should give some sort of feedback once it is pressed if there's no custom settings to export, as of right now you just click it and nothing happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteers SLOom Posted June 15, 2020 Volunteers Share Posted June 15, 2020 28 minutes ago, Daniel said: The "export" button on the group powers tab should give some sort of feedback once it is pressed if there's no custom settings to export, as of right now you just click it and nothing happens. What do you suggest? Hide export button or simply show a message "No setting to export" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Daniel Posted June 15, 2020 Advanced Members Share Posted June 15, 2020 48 minutes ago, SLOom said: What do you suggest? Hide export button or simply show a message "No setting to export" ? I think it would be better to say no settings to export and maybe add “you need at least 1 custom setting to export” or something like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members LaFleur Posted June 15, 2020 Author Advanced Members Share Posted June 15, 2020 This is now out of public beta and live. You can access it by the links and buttons on the HTML5 web / chat. Furthermore, some of your feedbacks have been implemented. Thank you! We'll very soon replace the old edit group, create group and events page. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 14 hours ago, LaFleur said: This is now out of public beta and live. You can access it by the links and buttons on the HTML5 web / chat. Furthermore, some of your feedbacks have been implemented. Thank you! We'll very soon replace the old edit group, create group and events page. I hope we can use the new edit group, because it's quite impossible to use "become main owner again in your xat" after reset without using flash version. And sometimes, I can't neither login into flash version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Members Featured Comment LaFleur Posted July 9, 2020 Author Advanced Members Featured Comment Share Posted July 9, 2020 The old create group, edit group and events page has been abolished now. #chats is now live everywhere! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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