Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26184525-20181005230130

Hello everyone, welcome to the newest update on the Survivor Fanon Wikia. This most recent update in javascript impacts the chat we all know and love! Some QOL (quality of life) changes have been made to generally help users' experience in chat. Upon joining chat you will now see a panel of three buttons at the top of your screen. In chat there is now three main features you can use. AFK: The AFK button is simple, if you are currently present in chat and would like to quickly signify you are not present, click the AFK button, it will change your status on the sidebar to Away. Clicking this again will undo this. CLEAR: Clearing the chat is also a very simple task, if you are overwhelmed with the messages, or a user has posted something you do not want on your screen, pressing clear immediately clears the chat for just yourself, nobody else is effected. PING PHRASES: Ping Phrases is a bit more optional on your end, pings are words that when typed in chat will highlight said message in red, and also play a sound if you are not in the chat tab to notify you someone is trying to get your attention. By default your username is set as a ping, however to get rid of pings completely, simply hover over the pings tab and erase your username (make sure there is no spaces whatsoever!). You also may add as many personal ping phrases as you like, such as if someone is discussing your favorite character or season, you could set a pingword "David vs. Goliath" etc.

As well as all of the new buttons, additionally what you see and are able to put into chat has changed as well. Admins are all given a star by their name to indicate when they are speaking, as well as....

Color! Color! Color! Color! Color! Color!

That's right, in chat the usage of color is now permitted. Additionally the usage of bold and italic font. However, these are to be used sparingly in chat as they are considered spam-like and distractions. Playing around with the text distracts from discussion so it's meant to only really be used for emphasis.

[b] [/b] is for bold text. [i] [/i] is for itallic text. [c=" "] [/c] is for colored text.

There is additional text curations that are not going to be made public information as they are -very- spammy. I will be issuing the admins of what these are so they can use them in the event they need to announce something to chat however it's very easy for users to abuse them (such as making text very large, bright, multicolor-distracting, etc.)

With the addition to being able to post images in chat, this obviously needs to be addressed. There is some appropriate usages (shown in the diagram) of what posting images should like like, and some not so appropriate examples. When posting files make sure to type it as normal. Typing two brackets and then File: at the beginning, followed by the file name and the proper ending (.png/.jpg/.gif/etc.). Do not try and go over 200px when posting images otherwise they will be VERY distracting and a large disruption to chat. Images posted in chat must be uploaded to our wiki. That's not a rule I made up, it's simply how the code works. If you need any additional guidance on posting these images be sure to contact me, I will be working on teaching all the admins fully on this so they can be teachers as well however majority of it's pretty common knowledge!

In closing, thank you everyone for reading and embracing this new change! This wiki is all about growth and becoming a much more established site as time goes on, so I hope everyone learns to love these new changes. If you have any questions on certain things be sure to comment down below. This thread will be highlight for one week and then I will un-highlight it so that it may be linked to anyone who missed it! Thanks guys, have a wonderful weekend! 