join user in chat - BigBlueBall

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July 7, 2003 at 9:59 pm #12909

karmina
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Is this thing working or not?

i Just tried clicking on friend’s id then join user in chat. The connecting to chat page shows up then when i click on enter chat, nothing happens. If i try again, it will tell me to try again cause it took too long.

July 7, 2003 at 10:06 pm #93769

coolguyj2
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well karima!!!
this feature works and its cool!!! i have tried it many times and I get a failur only if
1) the user is not in the chat room
2) the user is in the chat room but the chat room is clogged or the Y! chat server is clogged

July 7, 2003 at 10:23 pm #93772

ivebeena_bad_bad_girl
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I get this issue alot- I wish Yahoo! would give you a better error message. I also have the problem where some rooms are inaccessible from the list- usuallly if I just keep trying I can fix it- but it sure is annoying

July 7, 2003 at 10:31 pm #93767

karmina
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thanx for the replies guys.
yea i agree it should give better error messages. I just tried joining a friend who’s not even in chat and the chat loading page shows up . I tried again and this time it told me the user was not in chat. kinda confusing

July 8, 2003 at 3:38 am #93773

Lurking_Biohazard
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At least you guys get something! I don’t get anything if the user is not in chat or room is full. Nothing at all. It would be nice to get something, no matter how sketchy!

(I have even tested it with someone that I know was not in a room at that time, still nothing. Not even “User not in chat”. Sorry I did not say this earlier!)

July 8, 2003 at 3:46 am #93766

snugleupagainst
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When you get nothing it means they are in a room but it is locked and only open when your invited. If you had been invited and went into the room you can come and go til you log off again.

July 8, 2003 at 12:52 pm #93771

freddy
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Yahoo! used to return error messages;

User not in chat,
User in private room,
etc…
(When nothing got returned, it used to mean the user was hiding in the room – no longer possible, but you could type a command, your ID would come off the userlist, but you could still read the conversation, and join back in at any time by just typing)

But now it doesn’t. One day Yahoo! obviously thought it would be a good idea to stop providing information, and let the user use their creative imagination!

Instead of joining user from that button on homepage, go into chat through a room, then try typing the “/goto username” command, replacing username with the person you want to join. At least this way you’re already in chat.

July 8, 2003 at 1:04 pm #93768

coolguyj2
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Quote:

quote:Originally posted by freddy

user was hiding in the room – no longer possible, but you could type a command, your ID would come off the userlist, but you could still read the conversation, and join back in at any time by just typing

hey freddy u must be kidding right??? dont tell me that there was a feature like this befor which allowed you to hide in a chat room and pop up message whenever u liked!!!
information on this subject would be greately appreciated

July 8, 2003 at 1:17 pm #93770

freddy
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In Java chat you could type /leave

In YahELite you could type /leave or /nojoin

In other clients there was various options.

Supposedly those commands should indicate to yahoo! to disconnect your connection to the room, but all that happened was the room got a “freddy18uk left the room” message, but I could still see what was being typed, and no one would know I was in the room watching. If I typed, my text would reach the room, but official Yahoo! clients would not add the name back to the userlist, so it looked weird, you could type and not be “in the room”.

This doesn’t work now, /leave does literally disconnect you.

You could tell if a user was doing this, by a /goto returning no message, or in YahELite which outputs more info, you would see an errorcode of -15 I think it was.
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