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- | ====== Chat rooms section ====== | ||
- | You can create chat rooms to discuss either some item, author or some other issue. You can either create a room or join an existing room. Everything starts with the "My chat rooms" widget: | ||
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- | ===== Creating a chat room ===== | ||
- | * **Step 1:** Click on "Create chat room" link on the widget or click "List all rooms" -> "Create chat room" | ||
- | * **Step 2:** Fill out the "Create chat room" form: | ||
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- | * **Step 3:** Edit room settings: | ||
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- | **Please note:** | ||
- | * Here you can set the chat-room to be password-protected, invitation-based or publicly invisible | ||
- | * Once you have created a chat room, you are the only one who can change its settings | ||
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- | ===== Joining a chat room ===== | ||
- | * Either select a chat room on your "My chat rooms" widget or click "List all rooms" and look up any room from there, and just click on the room title: | ||
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- | * Remember that the room can be password-protected or invitations-only, then you must be invited or know the password, otherwise you can't access the room | ||
- | * Once you are in the chat room, you can add the room to your favorites by clicking the "Add to favorites" icon, turn conversation notification sound on/off by clicking the "Sound ON/OFF" icon or go to list of chat rooms by clicking the "Return to list" icon | ||
- | * You can also see chat room topic and title on top | ||
- | * You can see chat users on the right, once you mouse-over users, you can visit their profiles | ||
- | * You can pop-out the chat room window clicking "Pop-out" icon if you have it in a floatbox or you can pop-in the chat room window by clicking the "Pop-in" icon if you have it popped-out in a pop-up window | ||
- | * Each user's nickname and text color must be in a different color, while the user should see himself and his texts as orange |