New HTML5 Feature: Notifications

[LaFleur]

A new feature has been added: Notifications

 

If you join to a xat HTML5 chat, the browser will now ask you whether you accept xat.com notifications or not.

Upon agreeing, you will now receive browser notifications for every message sent in Main / Private Chat / Private Message, if the browser is minimized or if you're on another tab!

 

This also works offline now! Meaning if you haven't got any xat tab open, you will still get a notification.

This might not work fully yet for all browser, see bottom of the post.

 

 

 

By default this is set to: Private Chat (this includes PM’s too)

If you also want Notifications for messages sent on Main-Chat, simply use this macro: $notify=all (This will be a setting in future.)

 

If you want to disable this feature, you can do that in your Settings (Settings are in your profile).

You can also set whether you want this for Friends only or not.

 

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Mentions:

You can also get notifications for keywords you set. For instance, if someone writes “lafleur”, you will be notified about that, regardless of settings.

To add keywords, use this macro: $mentions=lafleur,xat,help,html5 (example)

 

 

 

Please note, Notifications will be improved with further options/settings in future.

If you have any questions, ideas or feedback regarding this feature, please let us know. Thanks.

 

See the rest of the recent changelog here.

 

Known issues:

Spoiler

- Offline notifications may not work yet for Opera, Firefox and Safari.

[Dann]

This is a great addition to html5 ! great job guys!

 

Hope to see some more 'up to date' features resembling these in the near future.

[IDIMA]

A new good feature I like it, and I have got more ideas for it.

 

1- In case I want all people to send me private messages not just friends when window is minimized, an easy tip regarding this case is to create a macro to allow me and other people to block spammers! maybe like ($notify=Username,block) if you ever get overwhelmed with annoying messages from unwanted users just block them from only private messages!

 

2- Showing whether you're  (offline, busy or available, don't disturb) statues. ($notify=all,busy)

 

3- Adding sounds for notifications, or set up to two sounds to differentiate between private messages and main/public messages.  [ ($notify=all,sound) for all type of messages |  ($notify=pvtmsg,sound)  for private only messages.]

 

4- Showing a brief or a short portion of the message being sent privately to you on your home screen as to see whether it's worth replying to or not!

 

5- Notification sound when you're (kicked, banned, or disconnected from the chat) 

 

6- The @Admin brought up a good idea here which is 

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You can also monitor a chat for messages you are interested in.

what's your say about having your name included as one of the words that you're interested in (list of words or something like that), so that you're informed of anyone that mentions your name or your registered name getting you involved in a discussion whether a pleasant/unwanted discussions!

 

 

7- A notification sound when a power gets released so that when I'm not on xat I can set a macro that within for example an hour I should be there to purchase a new power release or something! If you looked down below my post here you will see an idea with regard to this seventh idea, it was a suggestion of a power named (Alarm), where I find this is the right time for this idea to be implemented!

 

Ex ($notify=sound,duration) meaning within the specified duration shoot me the specified sound like a warning sound.

 

The idea of (Alarm)

 

8- As to another thing that I see it probably is important is get notified about when to promote your chat, there are times you're not recommended to promote the chat at, the times when dozens of other promoted chats are there where a promoted chat around this time won't get much of users compared to different times which there ain't much of chat rooms being promoted along with yours!

 

9- This feature would work for contests chat groups, just think about it, how can I have the users on my chat notified about when the contest begins also according to each country's timezone, a notification of who's the winner of the contest and stuff like so!

 

 

 

That's how far I could think of by now, if I got more ideas I would post them here so, to be continued!

Edited March 30, 2018 by IDIMA

[CarlosDesigns]

I think it would be nice to use this feature inside the client itself rather than allowing the browser to use notifications for the site.

[LaFleur]

On 30/03/2018 at 1:08 PM, IDIMA said:

what's your say about having your name included as one of the words that you're interested in (list of words or something like that), so that you're informed of anyone that mentions your name or your registered name getting you involved in a discussion whether a pleasant/unwanted discussions!

You can already do this using $mentions, e.g. $mentions=IDIMA, and if someone uses the word IDIMA, you will get a notification about it.

 

For any kind of alarms, it's better to this on your side, using a browser extension or a windows program.

 

The idea about power release sounds pretty good!

[Malarin]

Hello, I've been on xat for many years, I have a website that has many visitors and always choose to use xat. The problem is that these notifications are annoying for visitors to my website, is there a possibility to disable this? I do not want to remove the xat from my website, I want it to remain as it is without these notifications that are only shown in Mozilla Firefox.

 

 

This is very inconvenient to visitors to my website, it is impossible for me to add indications on how to disable these annoying notifications. I think that this should be an option to choose by the administrator of the xat within the panel to assign powers, not something mandatory.

[Malarin]

When I click "Not Now" and press f5 or browse through a tab on the web, the notification reappears, I have to click "Never Allow" so that they do not appear anymore. This does not know the visitors of my website, it is annoying for them to close the notification and keep appearing. Is there a possibility that they can replace "Not now" with "Never Allow" so that the blessed notification does not appear ?.

 

 

I'm sorry if this is not the right place to write this post, I saw what they replied to @Ider but it's not really enough help.

[Maxo]

thank you @LaFleur this is interesting my idea was this, thank you for the explaination