We added a new anti flood internal rule for chat:
We set that rule
User cannot send more than 3 text chats that contains URLs per minute. His messages will be blocked. After 8 messages per minute with URLs, his IP will be banned.
These new rules are to prevent flooding with random URL shortened services.
There are a few new devlopements about the chat quiz game (you can enable the quiz game)
You enable the quiz game in your chatadmin panel / Quiz menu
You can now organize your questions by category:
ex: geography, maths, general
The quiz game points are permanent (if you use the html5-chat users registration feature). You can also access the “hall of fame” (best scores) from your chat admin panel. You can also reset all scores from the chatadmin panel
And finally users have also the “Hall of fame” access from the “Trophy” button located in the chat header
Material effect, also called ripple or wave, is a visual CSS effect that add a kind of wave animation on a button or any component when clicked.
You can enable the material effect in your chatadmin / config / design
We have added a new feature: a spinning wheel (wheel of fortune) feature into the chat.
The spinning wheel allows to spin a fortune wheel on all chatters in a room. The wheel is of course synchronized for all users : they see the same wheel spinning at the same tile
It is a simple amusement widget that allows to spice up the chat. It can be used for challenges or contests.
Only users whose role have the “canLaunchWheel” set can launch the spinning wheel. It is localized next to chat input text (bottom left)
What does it look like on the chat ?
You can define texts, sizes and colors in your chatadmin panel (in wheel of fortune section)
Once launched, the wheel looks like:
We have added a new feature for admins and moderators. When an user reports another user’s behaviour, the moderator (or admin) online user get an alert in real time.
The alert info about an user is sent to him directly on chat as a new popup. He can also retrieve immediately all history chat about the user who has been reported. Once the report checked, he can easily take a ban action on the abuser if the report data are confirmed.
This is an automatic feature : no needs to enable any extra features in the chat admin panel.
When youtube link is posted, chatters can open the youtube window in a draggable resizeable window.
We have added a new property in your chatadmin/config panel called “youtube_open_in_window“
When checked, the clicked youtube video will open in a new draggable widow.
We have added a new feature: the full screen button for chat.
You can enable it in your chat admin / config.
We also added the possibility for hiding keyboards (mobile only) once chat message is sent. By default, chat closes the keyboard, but you can decide to leave it open to keep on sending more texts.
In roles, you can give a role the power to mute a webcam : once muted the webcam was closed on all users. However, the user could play the webcam again.
We have added a new parameter in config called muteWebcamPreventsPlayingCamAgain that prevent other users to play his webcam again : his webcam button will be removed from the user list.
You can upload images into the chat and now even using quick upload images thanks to the new resize on click size feature.
The uploaded image is inserted into the chat input text as a thumb and you can send it to the chat.
Now you can upload the image directly to the chat without inserting the thumb in the input text : you ahve added a new field uploadImageSendDirect in the config.
Once checked, the image you upload goes directly to the chat. This is very useful for mobile chat.
We have added a new feature: fast image uploading. This feature is based on the client size resizing.
The normal process of uploading images is the following:
As you see, if you choose a huge image (50 megas for instance), uploading process can take time since you need to upload 50 megas. This can be a real pain with mobile phones.
We have introduced the resizing on client side before uploading to server.
So now the process is:
As you can see, the process is much quicker. Besides it allows to upload big size photos since they will be resized before.
Now the caveat of this method is that the final image has JPEG format only. So you upload an animated GIF, you will get a static JPEG picture