patrick.net

Great! Patnetters can hatch evil conspiracies against other Patnetters over chat. It will be like Dungeons and Dragons.

Remember that you have to add other users to the invite list (via a new text box just below the post text) or the private post will be invisible to everyone except yourself!

Let's plan the revolution.

Now the 4th tab on the home page lists private chats that you are a member of.

Note that you can also invite people who are not already on patrick.net by just putting their email in the invite box on your newly created private chat.

They will get an email with a login link which will then make them part of your private chat.

You can also invite current users by username.

Go back to the old email and password method. Please...

Why though? I really love not having any password.

Is it that the switching between browser and email takes time?

google autofills the username and password, so it's no work at all

rando says

Is it that the switching between browser and email takes time?

But if you've got the browser set to auto-fill, then why not just stay logged in and completely skip the login step?

rando says

Now the 4th tab on the home page lists private chats that you are a member of.

Private chats? I knew PatNet was a porn site in disguise.

You can use the private chat however you wish to.

rando says

You can use the private chat however you wish to.

Again you tempt with with a CIC joke on a non-Thunderdome thread.

Btw, I think the civility count is off. I only have one comment in jail, but can't bring myself to edit it.

Is there a Realtor filter on the chat room?

Ironman says

I doubt anyone would be interested in chatting with you about fucking goats.

Not with an expert like you around.

jvolstad says

Is there a Realtor filter on the chat room?

Nothing automated, but the thread creator can invite or disinvite whoever he likes. Leaving out realtors would be fine.

rando says

Leaving out realtors would be fine.

And how would one identify a realtor?

Awaiting AF's response.

Something about the taste of their brains no doubt.

It would be nice if you could tell if someone was a realtor or not before bashing open his head.

Hmmm, should I let private chat creators simply email out a url for their post, and anyone who gets the link can then comment without registering? I could assign them a random username based on their ip address.

I'm starting to like this idea, since it has a couple of good features:

* Anyone can just email the link to the room to anyone else, and the email will come from someone trusted, not from p@patrick.net whom they've probably never heard of.
* The url to join can be passed around in companies and in classrooms, anywhere people want to chat anonymously.
* Spammers won't know where to post the spam unless someone already in the private chat group tells them.

But then, maybe spammers will use patrick.net to create spammy chats, and then mail out links to those spammy chats. I suppose I could still moderate and blow those away.

How about a "invitation-only thread" feature?

1. User A starts a thread.
2. User A whitelists users G1, G2, G3, G4 (perma-accepts).
3. User G5, B1, and B2 click a link to ask to be invit4es.
4. User A accepts G5, rejects B1 for the thread, and perma-rejects B2 for all threads.
5. Users A, G1, G2, G3, G4, and G5 can post on the thread.

Similarly, one can start a friends-only thread. Might encourage dusting off that old friends feature.

Dan8267 says

one can start a friends-only thread

Should a friends-only thread be publicly visible, or visible only to the author's friends?

rando says

Should a friends-only thread be publicly visible, or visible only to the author's friends?

I'd make it an option the author can specify per thread.