Have the shoutbox been removed?
Shoutbox gone?
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Yes, I was having some issues with it. I might bring it back in the future. I wish the shoutboxes that are available for WBB were as nice as those available for XF.
Daniel wrote:
Have the shoutbox been removed?
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Shoutboxes only distract from the community.Send in the clowns.
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BB8 wrote:
Shoutboxes only distract from the community.
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agreed
Sheldon wrote:
BB8 wrote:
Shoutboxes only distract from the community.
Depends on the community.
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Under which circumstances can a shoutbox improve the activity inside the community?Send in the clowns.
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I used to be 100% against shoutboxes and chatrooms but have eased up on that a bit. Shoutboxes take away a lot of serious discussion from forum threads, but they do keep people on a website for longer periods of time in many cases.
BB8 wrote:
Under which circumstances can a shoutbox improve the activity inside the community?
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Yes, but on an irrelevant part of the website - and they won't even have to refresh the site so they can't see new discussions instantly.Send in the clowns.
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BB8 wrote:
Yes, but on an irrelevant part of the website - and they won't even have to refresh the site so they can't see new discussions instantly.
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They should make a way to turn the shoutbox discussions over a certain period of time into a thread in the off topic section. That way it would be indexed by search engines.
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One forum that I was a member on did this but it was on XF.
alakazam wrote:
They should make a way to turn the shoutbox discussions over a certain period of time into a thread in the off topic section. That way it would be indexed by search engines.
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I believe most shoutboxes (including those for WBB) have an option for an archive.
alakazam wrote:
They should make a way to turn the shoutbox discussions over a certain period of time into a thread in the off topic section. That way it would be indexed by search engines.
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I know. But that's not what I'm talking about. I don't mean copy and paste the messages from the shoutbox into a thread. I meant, like, a plugin that automatically transforms the messages from the shoutbox into posts in a thread in the chronological order they were posted in, assigning them to the members who posted them.
Paul wrote:
I believe most shoutboxes (including those for WBB) have an option for an archive.alakazam wrote:
They should make a way to turn the shoutbox discussions over a certain period of time into a thread in the off topic section. That way it would be indexed by search engines.
I know there's some sort of plugin on phpBB that creates a message in the shoutbox each time a new thread is made. Well, I'm talking about something that reverses that process and transforms shoutbox messages into thread messages.
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That's what the archive option does for most shoutboxes.
alakazam wrote:
I don't mean copy and paste the messages from the shoutbox into a thread. I meant, like, a plugin that automatically transforms the messages from the shoutbox into posts in a thread in the chronological order they were posted in, assigning them to the members who posted them.
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While for XF this one has that function: TaigaChat Pro - Realtime chat/shoutbox | XenForo Community
alakazam wrote:
I know. But that's not what I'm talking about. I don't mean copy and paste the messages from the shoutbox into a thread. I meant, like, a plugin that automatically transforms the messages from the shoutbox into posts in a thread in the chronological order they were posted in, assigning them to the members who posted them.Paul wrote:
I believe most shoutboxes (including those for WBB) have an option for an archive.alakazam wrote:
They should make a way to turn the shoutbox discussions over a certain period of time into a thread in the off topic section. That way it would be indexed by search engines.
I know there's some sort of plugin on phpBB that creates a message in the shoutbox each time a new thread is made. Well, I'm talking about something that reverses that process and transforms shoutbox messages into thread messages.
Someone should develop such a plugin.
/prune command
Commonly requested, this allows anyone with the appropriate permission to clear the shoutbox. Unlike the community-made prune button, this will save any new messages to your archive thread, if enabled.
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On my site I am using the Siropu Chat and I have it set as the bar at the bottom so while I have a shoutbox it's not taking up real estate on the actual forum page and will hopefully keep people more active in the forum discussions as opposed to talking about everything in the shoutbox. That is one feature I really love about that chat system.
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The shoutbox is back. This is a test post.
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Oh no.Send in the clowns.
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Testing...
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