Update Log

December 5, 2016

Forums, Chat, Media, Resources, Enhanced Search and Theme updated to latest version. Mostly bug and security fixes (boring stuff really but necessary)

 

Upgraded Chat to v1.2.3

Here are the changes:

Image Uploads
Allows you to upload images directly to the chat. Uploads are not attachments as they are not linked to any post. Uploaded images can be posted in any room at any time you want by selecting them from the image list displayed when clicking on the "Image" bbcode button.

This feature has two permissions. One to allow users to upload images and one to limit how many images a user can upload in total.

Image list is AJAX paginated and users have the option to delete selected images.

/giphy Command
Will post a random GIF image using Giphy service. If a keyword is specified, the GIF will be radnom based on that keyword.

/mute Command
Allows you to mute a user from a room to prevent that user to post new messages. The muted user would not know that he/she is muted as the messages posted will not be saved and only diplayed to that user. The mute lasts based on the length (hours) set in the chat admin options.

There is a permission that allows room authors to use the command as well.

/status Command
Allows you to set a status that will be displayed under your username in the chatters list. The status can be also set from the user options.

This command is permission based and can also be enabled/disabled from chat admin options, where you can also set the maximum length.

Users have the option to hide statuses, if they don't want to see them.

Default Joined Rooms
This feature will set the default rooms for new chat users. The rooms can be selected from the chat admin options and it only works with rooms that don't require a password. For rooms that are permission based, the permissions will be taken into consideration before joining.

Keep Session Alive
If enabled, active chat sessions will be updated every 5 minutes to keep them alive.

Set last active tab default
If enabled, the last active room tab in the chat will be set as default on the next page load.

Improvements/Changes
When a user leaves all rooms, the "General Chat" room will no longer be set a default. The user will have to join room manually in order to see the messages and chat.

User options and settings have been split in two menus, "Settings" and "Options". The "Settings" menu is permission based.

Sound & Desktop Notifications are now allowing users to select which message type (Normal, Whisper, Tag, Bot) will trigger them.

Banned list will now display tabs for each ban type: Ban, Kick, Mute

Clicking on room name will now join that room.

A new permission to use chat settings has been added.

Chat admin options for user settings allows you to set default settings for new chat users.

New chat message CSS classed have been added for admin, moderator and staff messages:

.siropuChatAdmin {}
.siropuChatModerator {}
.siropuChatStaff {}

A new sound has been added for tag messages.

Bug Fixes
Duplicate messages
Autoscroll not working when using page zoom
Some other code issues

 

July 8, 2016

Server Software updated, various parts of website updated. These are all security and bug fixes. Only noticeable changes apply to the Chat function which is now back to the latest version (v1.24)