Post by Eileen on Sept 5, 2016 17:11:13 GMT -7
Hello everyone! Staff is happy to announce that we now have a consolidated area for ICC/Private/Games/Resolution chats. Right now, what we have are chatango chats for Games and Resolution. We use Cbox for ICC as well as Shoutbox located at the bottom of the page.
But thanks to Sara for her suggestion of the Slack server, we're going to start using Slack for all these types of chats.
Slack is available on desktop as well as apps for android and iphone. To get started, please PM Eileen with your e-mail address. We need this in order to add you to the chat because it is not a guest open chat.
Check your e-mail for an invitation and sign in using the SAME username that you use in CHATANGO.
Once you've signed in, you will see a list of many different chats. You may access any of them except for Staff, of course. You may PM any member as it works the same at Chatango when it comes to PM-ing, but much smoother and available in all mobile devices (@username to tag). If all ICC areas are taken up or you would like to talk to a group of people (such as an alliance for the games) you are allowed to create a chat room and mark it as private if needed.
What isn't going to change:
Slack chat does not have a way for us to add the chat widget into the site. Because of this, we will continue to use Chatango on the site. Chatango will remain our main public chat. We as a staff believe that it is important to have a chat on the main site that is guest friendly and that everyone can see, regardless of if you are a member. There is to be NO general chatting in Slack chat, please use Chatango for that. We need to show guests and potential members that we have an active site that is welcoming and guest friendly. If everyone is using slack chat that guests don't have access to, they will not see the site as being socially active or welcoming. This is the only rule we have for using Slack, so please follow it. However, all general chat rules (no harrassing, spamming, etc) still apply.
We are going to keep the shoutbox at the bottom just because it's neat and we like it.
Pm-ing staff: you can still PM us via Chatango and site. However, if you want to use Slack, please PM us individually or tag us in the Resolution chat. Do NOT tag the "thgtstaff" username. This is a user that none of the staff is regularly logged into and will rarely be used. We will not get your messages if you PM that account.
We hope you enjoy this new way of chatting, if you have questions, feel free to ask.
But thanks to Sara for her suggestion of the Slack server, we're going to start using Slack for all these types of chats.
Slack is available on desktop as well as apps for android and iphone. To get started, please PM Eileen with your e-mail address. We need this in order to add you to the chat because it is not a guest open chat.
Check your e-mail for an invitation and sign in using the SAME username that you use in CHATANGO.
Once you've signed in, you will see a list of many different chats. You may access any of them except for Staff, of course. You may PM any member as it works the same at Chatango when it comes to PM-ing, but much smoother and available in all mobile devices (@username to tag). If all ICC areas are taken up or you would like to talk to a group of people (such as an alliance for the games) you are allowed to create a chat room and mark it as private if needed.
What isn't going to change:
Slack chat does not have a way for us to add the chat widget into the site. Because of this, we will continue to use Chatango on the site. Chatango will remain our main public chat. We as a staff believe that it is important to have a chat on the main site that is guest friendly and that everyone can see, regardless of if you are a member. There is to be NO general chatting in Slack chat, please use Chatango for that. We need to show guests and potential members that we have an active site that is welcoming and guest friendly. If everyone is using slack chat that guests don't have access to, they will not see the site as being socially active or welcoming. This is the only rule we have for using Slack, so please follow it. However, all general chat rules (no harrassing, spamming, etc) still apply.
We are going to keep the shoutbox at the bottom just because it's neat and we like it.
Pm-ing staff: you can still PM us via Chatango and site. However, if you want to use Slack, please PM us individually or tag us in the Resolution chat. Do NOT tag the "thgtstaff" username. This is a user that none of the staff is regularly logged into and will rarely be used. We will not get your messages if you PM that account.
We hope you enjoy this new way of chatting, if you have questions, feel free to ask.