New Live Chat bar

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3rd November 2009, 11:34am
#1
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 9960

You can now chat live with your friends from almost any page on Chess.com! We have partnered with Meebo.com to provide a chat bar that sits at the bottom of your page (much like the bar on Facebook.com). You will see which of your friends are online and you can then click on their name to chat with them. You can navigate around the Chess.com site and your chat will stay live and active!



Look for this chat interface on the main Chess.com site!

We hope you will enjoy a more socially interactive Chess.com with this new chat bar!

If you don't see the bar, it is because you don't have any friends yet. Add some people to your friends list and you will be notified when they are online!

If you would like to change or limit where you see the Live Chat bar, you can change it in your account Privacy page.

Please check this FAQ or the Help & Support forums if you have any questions. Thanks!

3rd November 2009, 11:37am
#2
by marvellosity
Portsmouth United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 1415

Where's the option to remove it from all pages? I don't want it showing anywhere but there doesn't seem to be an option.

3rd November 2009, 11:39am
#3
by LisaV
Tenerife Canary Islands
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 776

The Privacy link.

3rd November 2009, 11:41am
#4
by marvellosity
Portsmouth United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 1415

I don't see a Remove from all pages option. Only remove from certain pages.

3rd November 2009, 11:43am
#5
by marvellosity
Portsmouth United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 1415
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3rd November 2009, 11:43am
#6
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 9960
marvellosity wrote:

I don't see a Remove from all pages option. Only remove from certain pages.


sorry, only premiums can totally remove. but you can limit it down to just your homepage (or, if you know what you are doing with browsers you can find a hack to block that javascript).

3rd November 2009, 11:47am
#7
by FM charlesgalofre
Miami United States
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 337

there should be a a light green tab somewhere that says: make a friend today! with a smiley Smile aww

 

Laughing

3rd November 2009, 11:47am
#8
by marvellosity
Portsmouth United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 1415
erik wrote:
marvellosity wrote:

I don't see a Remove from all pages option. Only remove from certain pages.


sorry, only premiums can totally remove. but you can limit it down to just your homepage (or, if you know what you are doing with browsers you can find a hack to block that javascript).


Hehe, thanks erik ;) I shall ask my technically minded other half :p

3rd November 2009, 11:48am
#9
by Dakota_Clark
Chicago United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 561
marvellosity wrote:

Oh, I see. Turning it off is only available to premium members.

How unbelievably invasive! If you don't pay, you're forced to have chat. Nice :/


 Again; Complaining about a free service not meeting your preferences is an absurd argument.

3rd November 2009, 11:49am
#10
by Beelzebub666
Great Britain
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 378

It's an annoyance I did not ask for and do not want.  You should consider making it an opt in feature rather than an opt out feature.

3rd November 2009, 11:56am
#11
by GeoffreyBernardo
Pretoria South Africa
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 145

Whoa! Excellent, Erik! Chess.com is going from strength to strenght.

3rd November 2009, 11:58am
#12
by bigpoison
Gilmore Township, Michigan United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 652

Yuk.  What makes this necessary?  We can message, email, chat in game.  Redundancy--the opiate of the irreligious masses.

3rd November 2009, 11:59am
#13
by NM ozzie_c_cobblepot
United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 3660

Mine's not yet signed in.

Erik - can I talk to chess.com friends from meebo.com itself?

3rd November 2009, 12:00pm
#14
by blackfirestorm666
Manchester England
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 39904

I personally love chatting so this for me is a brilliant feature but I can see how for some they just want to come here and play chess this can seem intrusive

3rd November 2009, 12:02pm
#15
by bigpoison
Gilmore Township, Michigan United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 652

Quick, easy fix though.  No problemo. 

3rd November 2009, 12:06pm
#16
by Zigalday
Kansas City United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 182

Wow! just great. Although the sounds are a bit annoying.

3rd November 2009, 12:06pm
#17
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 9960
Beelzebub666 wrote:

It's an annoyance I did not ask for and do not want.  You should consider making it an opt in feature rather than an opt out feature.


we give you a chance to check it out and then gave you a very very simple way to turn it off :) sorry to annoy you.

3rd November 2009, 12:07pm
#18
by rooperi
Pretoria South Africa
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 3714

Well. I'm not very big on chat, but it's pretty unobtrusive. I didn't even notice till it was pointed out.

3rd November 2009, 12:18pm
#19
by futuregm23
Chicago United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 610

Nice! (chess.com is the new myspace.. lol) 

3rd November 2009, 12:25pm
#20
by strani
St. Louis United States
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 334

very cool. thanks. 

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