Bad Feature enabled in Chat

[Davidvaini]

There is a feature enabled in chat that disables a user from being able to post a any word with a b and then an h after it.


I tried copying a link of a picture that I had to help ammosmoke out with his design and It wouldnt let me post the correct link to the image.

I realize that you could just PM the person with the link, however when I have to post multiple links and answer questions between them, it pretty much makes it imposible to help him with forum PM.

It is really just a bad feature and I really wish it would be disabled.

[daberno123]

I don't really see why posting links in the chat would be a problem. Maybe something got switched with the new server because I before the switch Larda was posting links to pictures of his hybrid and stuff.

[ammosmoke]

Yeah, was having that problem too, it is annoying when you are trying to talk about links. Here is a couple screenshots...

[PCGUY]

What link are you guys trying to post when it breaks it?

[ammosmoke]

Any external link.

[Davidvaini]

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b145/ ... Barrel.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h168/ ... C01036.jpg

and a bunch others from my photobucket.

but thats not the only ones:

[Davidvaini]

the word berwith is censored...

[Davidvaini]

as you can tell from my sig, the problem is fixed.

thanks pcguy!


Quote of the day:

[SpudFarm]

Maximum size of a signature is 400x100 pixels (400px wide by 100px high) and no larger than 25KB total.

569px × 114px and 75.82 KB (77641 bytes)

sorry moderators i just had to

[Davidvaini]

lol you point out that rule and not the swearing one... I LOVE IT!

[SpudFarm]

PCGUY can do as he want's here

that is so cool, coolest administrator ever

(keep the picture.. i think it is okay)

[Davidvaini]

lol its okay, since he fixed the problem so quickly.

Quote of the day:

PCGUY:

"
FCSNB
uuhi
cnigt
kttgc
eh
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"

[jrrdw]

No that shouldn'd be disabled! Some disgrunteled what ever could throw in a wammie and mess things up. I vote no!!!!!! Better to be save then sorry. Bad computer things can cost a lot of money.

[Davidvaini]

No that shouldn'd be disabled! Some disgrunteled what ever could throw in a wammie and mess things up. I vote no!!!!!! Better to be save then sorry. Bad computer things can cost a lot of money.

I would much rather take that chance then to not be able to post any external links.

I use the chat to help out other people here on spudfiles with designs. I also use it to show new technologies, new theories and other things found elsewhere.

The whole point of "Chat" is to be a more user friendly way to have a conversation. Not letting people post external links makes the chat less user friendly.

A person can say that you can always post the link in a PM, but sometimes you have to post a link, wait for questions about that link, then post another link, then wait for questions then another link etc... when you have 8 or so links that you need to show in that way, it gets extremely tiresome to do in PM. Another thing is, that sometimes when you are PM'ing, you will be in the middle of responding when the guy has another question that he forgot to mention... so that message gets delayed untill you finish your message. It gets really messy really fast.

Chat is supposed to make user communication more friendly not more difficult.

I would rather not have to add a bunch of spaces in between certain characters in links so the person can get it, then copy the link with spaces then guess on the spaces to remove, then after all the spaces are removed they can access the site. Then have to repeat that process for multiple links.

It really effects time. I couldnt help Ammosmoke earlier because we ran into this problem. We tried adding the spaces and then removing them etc, but by the time we figured it out he had to leave.

[jrrdw]

Chat is supposed to make user communication more friendly not more difficult.

Nor should it be risky to use. Honestly.