Chat is back
 

Hey folks
Thanks to our member Antho.ny N.ex we now have a chat room. He did most of the heavy lifting to get it done and was also very, very generous to our forum. Brian McQueen gets an assist too. Thanks to those 2 gentlemen for helping to improve our experience on Net54baseball. I have only briefly gone in there but it looks nice. I am sure it will get a lot of use...

Yep, this is the chat i was referring to you Leon last time i pm'ed you. We use it all the time in (nasrac.com) Works good, sometimes you get a lag. Overall we enjoy it. We pay a subscription over there for ours. Dont know if your on the free-trial or not. Great job guys on establishing this.

New Chat
 

Wow...I just logged in...very cool. I look forward to meeting more members on the chat! Well done guys!!

And just to add another quick note. we are in somewhat of a beta testing for the next few days, so to speak. So there could be some minor kinks to work out. We have had a report of a Mac issue and are looking into it.

update- looks like the Mac issue had to do with java and or restarting a computer or opening a new browser. Problem solved.

Mac is fine now. If you have to add a Java applet, you must reboot before it will work.

I'll be available in the chat Room when online to help with the roll out and to verify function for other members.

Is there any downside to adding this Java applet to my computer?

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Fred, both Safari and Firefox say the current java applet has security issues. So about a year ago all of their updates disabled it, and that is typically the issue with anyone not being able to get into this chat module.
I've never had problems but it seems like anything can be hacked these days, even the phones of German prime ministers. I have not found it to be something I worry about, but keep an eye on everything just in case.
Has everyone been able to register and get in the chat lobby so far without problems?

Download the Java app. Click all the "Run" (s). Watch where it asks you to download and install the toolbars. Restart your computer. I was able to use my Net54 login and password. I'm on Windows 8 and using IE. No issues at all.

I was able to enter earlier, but now it fashes "success" then says invalid username or password.

yup, it was allowing anything for a user name and password. Like Leon said, we're still debugging and it will be a few hours before it's running with legit passwords and user names. Sorry for the delay.

Quick update. For now we have disabled the chat so we can get it fixed. We need some s/w and have a help ticket into the provider. But it could be a day or two before we get it. We we well on our way to having it though and it will be soon. Sorry for the slight inconvenience. Most good things take some time.....Thanks again to Anthony and Brian for the help.

We believe the kinks are worked out of the chat room. It looks to be working fine and is operational. If anyone sees a bug or kink please let me know. Huge Thanks again to Anthony and also an assist to Brian for the help. Our community helps one another quite a bit. Even if we do bicker like families sometimes. :eek:

OK. I believe you must create a user account. It would not take my existing username and password without registering. So I decided to use Runscott as my chat name.

That's pretty funny...yeah, you might have to create an account so we'll keep an eye out for any funny business :). There is a security check and balance in the system, I believe, but we'll be watching anyway.

Correct, you do have to register for the chatroom. It should send you a verification email that you click on and you're good to go.
Remember, if you're on a mac, you have to activate the java plug in to access chat, and to do that you have to relaunch the browser after activating it.
If this proves confusing I'll post a step by step (think it's 2 steps) to do that.

I added the applet, rebooted, get a black empty screen.

Okay, tried with Firefox and it worked (Safari did not).

Scott, I got the blackscreen on Safari as well, but after a few minutes it loaded fine, and then quickly after that. Firefox was much quicker.