Edit/Remove Chatbox Timeout

First topic message reminder :

I am suggesting that we have the option to edit or remove the timeout time for the chatbox. It gets irritating when we get kicked out of the chatbox after a shortwhile of inactivity.

I could see this come in handy, voted yes,

Agree

So agree, this would be a great update!
Sometimes the exact timeout can be veryy annoying haha.
-JM

How many votes needed in order to accept it ??

OMG the thread is from 2009, and the suggestion still not accepted !?
how many years do you need? =_='

for 4 years, nothing has changed.

This should be considered, ITS SO NEEDED i hate getting dc all the time. Please remove it or make us choose if we want it removed or not.

Executie wrote:This should be considered, ITS SO NEEDED i hate getting dc all the time. Please remove it or make us choose if we want it removed or not.

Need wait 4 years more i think

Support.

Vote: YES!

Regards & Respect!

Hello,

I will be honest for this suggestion. This is an excellent suggestion but the thing that users will get the use of this for their own selfishness is not good. Users may select 20 minutes time to get them logged out but they wont be there at all. That will keep space and a bit annoying. Anyways. I would prefer instead of choosing a specific time to get us logged out, that time, stay online but be invisible.

I think that this suggestion will make chat a lot hard to control (if you have a lot members using it).

Εdit: For this reason i vote no. Sorry.

MrMind.

I my self use a spin off to the chat room that has all the time out's and that turned off and lots of other things to and found it out of this world I would like to see a timer in the ACP that would be set if you want this but right now i see no point Sorry so Votes NO

I agree! 100% We need to be able get rid of the the timeout on the chatbox! I vote Yes!

ALL my support! Honestly around 50% of my chatbox archives get filled up with spam by myself and members just posting "..." or some random nonsense to try and stay in the chat. We aren't always talking but we like to stay in there and stay active so as to see what's going on and if someone does say something... you know?

Though I can see the other side as well and why people wouldn't support this. But as a small forum owner and an avid user of the chatbox... I would like to be able to stay in the chatbox without having to log back in every 15 minutes or so just because I'm being quiet. I think I also saw something earlier about an option to stay hidden in chat or something like that? I think thats a cool idea too, possibly something you could assign to specific groups?

Selvester wrote:ALL my support! Honestly around 50% of my chatbox archives get filled up with spam by myself and members just posting "..." or some random nonsense to try and stay in the chat. We aren't always talking but we like to stay in there and stay active so as to see what's going on and if someone does say something... you know?

Though I can see the other side as well and why people wouldn't support this. But as a small forum owner and an avid user of the chatbox... I would like to be able to stay in the chatbox without having to log back in every 15 minutes or so just because I'm being quiet. I think I also saw something earlier about an option to stay hidden in chat or something like that? I think thats a cool idea too, possibly something you could assign to specific groups?

I agree... Also might I add that I am not advocating remove it completely from the chatbox. What I am advocating for is the ability for me to disable via the acp option. If we are an administrator on a forumotion forum I think should have the option get disable it (for OUR forum indivually).

Thanks - branding_g

This is an Important feature... I think it really should be considered!


BUMP!

Yes! and auto login...

Rog360 wrote:Yes! and auto login...

Rog... thanks for the vote, that is a seperate issue... i feel like I can put up with the having login every time. I really want to remove the timeout feature though because it is VERY annoying!

I'll settle for time out to be removed or adjustable...

Rog360 wrote:I'll settle for time out to be removed or adjustable...

Yes, it is not me specifically that wants this feature removed or adjusted, I have an OPEN suggestion on my forum for wanting the chatbox timeout disabled, and I can not even solve it at the moment. It seems like a simple to add.

The suggestion is from 2009 so is here for 5 years now and still nothing change. I am not sure if suggestion section is just for trolling users or what, how many suggestion has been done from this section...? I don't want kill your hope guys but they will probably never change it, here was million of suggestions like this one.

Doctor Inferno wrote:I am suggesting that we have the option to edit or remove the timeout time for the chatbox. It gets irritating when we get kicked out of the chatbox after a shortwhile of inactivity.

You're sweet, when that happens I usually get quite pissed.
Vote supported.

This has been going on for 3 years? Is it that difficult to fix? Clearly the majority vote yes. It is incredibly annoying.

Frank_Wx wrote:This has been going on for 3 years? Is it that difficult to fix? Clearly the majority vote yes. It is incredibly annoying.

problem indeed! now see when support staff implements the change if votes are massively in favour. In this case they too on their forums see the annoyance, so surely they will love to see changes as well

Unfortunarelly it is not the support staff here's call, they are volunteers, the paid techs and admins of fm would need to add this. It seems rather simple to give us a little box to tic and click save!

brandon_g wrote:Unfortunarelly it is not the support staff here's call, they are volunteers, the paid techs and admins of fm would need to add this. It seems rather simple to give us a little box to tic and click save!

Any way to contact them?

I meant as a whole, Staff pro etc... same thing in french site
Volunteer staff has nothing to do with Forumotion employees on payroll.

But some idea must be implemented. Here we see this is a frequently asked poll and yet... ?

No, Frank_Wx . Not that I know of, as usually their PM's are switched off. And only work on work hours, and usually are not working on weekends, holidays or (paid/unpaid) leave days...

Hi,

Selvester wrote:ALL my support! Honestly around 50% of my chatbox archives get filled up with spam by myself and members just posting "..." or some random nonsense to try and stay in the chat. We aren't always talking but we like to stay in there and stay active so as to see what's going on and if someone does say something... you know?

Though I can see the other side as well and why people wouldn't support this. But as a small forum owner and an avid user of the chatbox... I would like to be able to stay in the chatbox without having to log back in every 15 minutes or so just because I'm being quiet. I think I also saw something earlier about an option to stay hidden in chat or something like that? I think thats a cool idea too, possibly something you could assign to specific groups?

Yes, like invisible members on forum motion boards also get he same status on chat boxes.

Frank_Wx wrote:

brandon_g wrote:Unfortunarelly it is not the support staff here's call, they are volunteers, the paid techs and admins of fm would need to add this. It seems rather simple to give us a little box to tic and click save!

Any way to contact them?

The techs can only contacted through this sites admins, the admins can be  reached through the volunteer staff. They will not do so unless it is a  support problem... and a big 1 at that.

yes and not all site admins can be reached via pm's though!
My last note regarding an interesting point should be raised; if invisible on forum, it may/could be extended to chatbox as well? And if not on soecific groups, to the wholw forum, as many members chose to be invisible

That is a seperate issue count, I can deal with not being invisible, I like the chatroom timeout feature disabled BEFORE anything else, it is the biggest and most annoying part of them all!
Just give us a option, "Disable Chatbox Timeout on the forum?" with little tic that say yes or no. Seems simple to me!