Feedback and suggestions

Hi Hiccupx,

thanks for the great work here - I don't worry or blame at all for the chat not runnig because... I was web developer for some years, too, I know the struggle with the different browsers on all that different devices
Keep going, I appreciate the work of all admins here.

The screenshot above is from the sub-site which is mentionned in the small part of javascript visible,
fantasyfeeder.com/chat/text/FFChat2

If I call the chat as usual, the CSS is working fine, the layout of the page looks absolutely perfect. Just zero users and nothing to "chat to".

If I can help by whatever (sending the html I receive, check for links to be reachable from my "bad" firefox) feel free to drop me a message. I'm here every few days, so it may take a while

Let's say the new chat had all these kinks worked out and there were no issues.

Can I ask what benefits the new chat would then have over the old one?

Off-hand, compared to the old chat:

-it's got multiple chatrooms including weight gain and role play
-you can now view the number of chats remaining per 24 hours (it was always present but not visible before)
-leaving the chatroom doesn't get rid of your private chats unless you actively shut them so you can come back without accidentally clicking out and needing to use up more chats to talk to the same person
-people are now visible on the side bar in a chatroom
-anyone on your block list will be blocked from sending you a private chat request
-it works better on mobile
-you can enter the chatroom but you don't actually have to stay in any of the rooms if you don't want to, you can shut all the rooms and wait in the 'lobby' if you fancy

There might be more but that's what I can think of so far.

No, same with me. Using Chrome and Firefox on multiple machines, and it has not worked for me once. I always see the blank screen, 0 users, etc.

ya definitely a linux problem. Still not working. Tried looking for updates and all javascript is enabled from multiple browsers

Let's try to dig a bit into the code.

Typically, "Windows working, Linux not"-problems are very likely path issues, mixing up uppercase/lowercase for example. Or having different line ending encoding - but that's rare.

Here the script complains in firefox about the object "FfclientConfig" not being defined. It is used here:

Here I got stuck on where it is defined.
I found a reference on window.Ffclientconfig inside
FFChat2/ff-chat-1.2-min.js
but not where it is defined.

A second "undefined" object problem happened: n[o.osName] is undefined

Thanks to Steve for this really really beautiful javascript by the way - it was a pleasure to read through it, well structured, very great work! Let's get that one running!

Just adding that some people have been thrown into another person's private conversation when chat crashes, though its a rarer glitch. It happened to me today so I've uploaded a censored image below. I didn't appear in the private chat, just the two people, but it replaced my number of chats with the number that the main person had in this conversation.

Once you dove into Java Script you totally lost me... but does this mean the problem has been identified?

Really missing chat, folks, but none of my devices works - ever!