Friday, October 10, 2008

Feature Loss

The 3rd party chat programs brought many additional features. I loved Chattage. Here are a few of the things I miss:

  • Automatic logging of both public rooms and private chats
  • Botguard (The new gay.com version is weak)
  • Ability to automatically highlight usernames and key words
  • Automatically capture all profile photos
  • "Hammer" room even if you're not a premium member
  • Separate list of buddies, hotties, and ignored
  • Automatically logging in to chat when launching the program
  • Ability to have multiple rooms and multiple private chats open in separate windows to watch all of them at once
  • Sort the list of folks in the room by name, arrival time, or classification (buddy, hottie, etc.) in ascending or descending order
  • Ability to turn on or off arrival and departure notices in the room
  • Ability to have a custom bio line (and it would be remembered from session to session)
  • Ability to scroll back on a conversation and have the window stay where I am (gay.com jumps to bottom of the window the moment a new line is displayed making it impossible to read previous lines)
  • Notify you when someone is being blocked by your botguard
I don't miss the sounds. They were just annoying, but could be turned off.

What do you miss?

P.S. I've been adding to this list over time and it has already doubled in size from when first posted

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I used Chattage also and miss:

1. the ability to clear the text buffer 2. being able to sort member lists by order of arrival or alphabetical order.
3. being able to click on URLs instead of having to manually copy and paste them into a web browser.

I also don't like running chat clients as part of a web browser. The chat client windows get mixed up too easily with other web browser windows.