chat - Announcements from Ning - Ning Creators Social Network2024-03-28T09:25:41Zhttps://creators.ning.com/announcements-from-ning/feed/tag/chatChat Feature Update on Ning 3.0 is ready!https://creators.ning.com/announcements-from-ning/chat-feature-update-on-ning-3-0-is-ready2017-06-21T10:15:13.000Z2017-06-21T10:15:13.000ZKyryl_Ning_Supporthttps://creators.ning.com/members/GlushchenkoKyryl<div><p>Chat Feature Update on Ning 3.0 is ready!</p>
<p class="textbody">Good news - it`s time to announce the release of the Chat Feature on Ning 3.0 platform.</p>
<p>Today we are happy to provide you with the opportunity to chat with other members of your Ning Network in the most convenient and efficient way. To facilitate your community management experience, we have added several new options:</p>
<ul>
<li>New design</li>
<li>Customizable notifications</li>
<li>Message counter</li>
<li>Ability to create and manage groups (rename, add photos, delete and add users, block users)</li>
<li>Ability to send files</li>
</ul>
<p>Chats 3.0 is an easy-to-use tool for building an effective network. With this release, you can customize notifications in accordance with your needs, rename your groups, add photos and users, use a message counter to monitor the number of messages, delete the messages you don’t need, send files, and suspend members from chat. The Chat Feature is available for both Ning 3.0 and 2.0 platforms.</p>
<p class="textbody">We have a lot of ideas and plans, so please stay tuned for our updates and share your opinion with us!</p>
<p class="textbody">Follow this link for more information: <a href="https://www.ning.com/ning3help/new-chat-features/" target="_blank">https://www.ning.com/ning3help/new-chat-features/</a></p>
</div>Latest Upgrades to Chat: Clear Conversations + Volume Controlshttps://creators.ning.com/announcements-from-ning/latest-upgrades-to-chat-clear-conversations-volume-controls2012-02-02T01:27:20.000Z2012-02-02T01:27:20.000ZAlexhttps://creators.ning.com/members/Alex<div><p><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/550076?profile=original" width="226" class="align-right"></p>
<p>We hope you're liking the new chat! As we mentioned in <a href="http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/coming-soon-a-new-improved-chat">our most recent announcement</a> about chat, your feedback around this project has been incredibly useful. Based on your requests, we've added two more things to chat. They're relatively small changes in the grand scheme of things, but we expect those of you who want them will be pretty happy to see them. </p>
<p>First, we have added the ability to clear the chat of prior conversation. We asked you how you wanted to use this type of clear chat functionality, and we got a lot of different responses. So, we've made this available in two ways, which we think will cover most of the needs we heard expressed:</p>
<ul>
<li>The ability to "Clear chat history" in the Main Room will let Network Creators and admins zero out the public chat. Everyone participating in the public chat will start with a clean slate. Members won't see this link.</li>
<li>All members will have the ability to "Clear chat history" in private conversations. This will remove all of the messages that are in their own view, while the member they are chatting with will continue to see the messages.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/550107?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/550107?profile=original" width="202" class="align-right"></a>It's important to note that this link will appear at the top of the chat window so you will need to scroll to the top of the conversation to clear chat.</p>
<p>The second thing we added is a volume control for alert notifications. The default sound levels for everyone out there on the Internet can be pretty varied, so it makes sense to add this straightforward volume control. Too loud? Turn it down.</p>
<p>These two updates will wrap up the major work on our chat upgrade. The old Flash-based chat will stick around for a bit longer, but we will ultimately be turning off the old Flash-based chat. If you haven't tried out the new chat yet, now's a great time to get acquainted with it!</p></div>Chat coming, and we want your feedbackhttps://creators.ning.com/announcements-from-ning/chat-coming-and-we-want-your-feedback2011-10-13T17:53:44.000Z2011-10-13T17:53:44.000ZEvanhttps://creators.ning.com/members/Evan<div><p><strong>Update</strong>: Please provide feedback on how popping out chat should work, asked <a href="http://creators.ning.com/xn/detail/4244211:Comment:918652" target="_self">here</a>.</p>
<p>If you've looked at the Ning <a href="http://creators.ning.com/page/product-roadmap" target="_self">product roadmap</a> recently, you've noticed that some Chat improvements are on the way. We've started to work on Chat, and wanted to share what we have in mind and get Network Creators an early chance to share their feedback.</p>
<p>The biggest changes we have planned are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Redesigning Chat in HTML and Javascript, instead of today's Flash-based chat. It will work on iPad, can be customized via CSS and will be translated in the language editor.</li>
<li>Redesigning Chat into separate "panes," whereas today's chat a single "pane". New private conversations appear as tabs within the Chat pane, instead of appearing as new panes.</li>
</ul>
<p>Here is <strong>today's Flash-based chat</strong>:</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/548843?profile=original"></a><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/548717?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/548717?profile=original" width="742"></a></p>
<p>And here's <strong>what Chat might look like</strong> (<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/548792?profile=original" target="_self">click</a> on the image to see it bigger):</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/548792?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/548792?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="700"></a>So, unlike today's chat, this new Chat format would mean that:</p>
<ul>
<li>When someone starts a 1:1 conversation, the chat would instantly pop up (and pop open), so it would be very hard to miss.</li>
<li>You can talk in 1:1 conversations and in the main chat room at the same time (not possible without changing tabs today)</li>
</ul>
<p>There's a lot to process in looking at this new design, and there have been a <a href="http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/waiting-for-the-new-ning-chat-your-expectations" target="_self">ton of discussions</a> on Creators about Chat. We <strong>want your feedback, though, about the overall design and functionality</strong>.</p>
<p>A few of big questions have come up that we want to pose to you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Do you think this new overall design works better than today's tabbed chat?</li>
<li>Would you be disappointed if this redesigned chat just existed in your network's footer, not in a module or full page as it does today?</li>
<li>Are you satisfied with the general size of the main chat window? Do you think you'd still need to pop it out in case the discussion becomes so active you need more screen real estate?</li>
<li>How important is being able to pop out the main chat room, or 1:1 conversations?</li>
<li>How do you feel about the sounds in chat? So long as users can turn sounds off, should a sound be played every time a new message is posted? Even when chat is minimized?</li>
</ul>
<p>We'd love your feedback on these issues, as we start to develop chat. Down the road, we'll get into more specific feature additions, but for now, I'd like to keep this discussion focused on the big design/behavior issues I've raised above.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p></div>