Chat Setup Guide
Please Note: We are working on a better chat solution that will allow using Rikaichan. I hope to have something up in a few days. In the meantime, please feel free to use the Flashchat
Who's in the chat?
I'm trying out this chat for now. We can discuss using this or some other chat. I'm not sure what will be best right now. For the meantime, the old chat program can be accessed below.
Actually, there are three choices:
1) Flashchat (Above)
2) PhpFreeChat
Which do you think is better? I'm leaning toward Flashchat since we used to have that and everyone missed it so. :) If that is what people want, I'll hire someone to authenticate against Drupal so you don't have to log in twice.
and
3) the old chat:
Ye Old Chat Program: |
The Great 'How do I get on the Chat' Page
Click Here to Join the Chat
See who is chatting now!
This page outlines just how to join the chatting! (Windows Machines) by Zen-san
Download Pandion from www.pandion.be.
Start Pandion and enter your account information.
- Address: (your TJP username)@chat.thejapanesepage.com -- Replace any spaces with a 'period' or a 'plus sign'. For example: "Charlie Brown" becomes "Charlie+Brown@chat.thejapanesepage.com" or "Charlie.Brown@chat.thejapanesepage.com".
- Password: (your TJP password)
Click Log In and the main window will appear.
Use the menu and go to 'Actions -> Join a Conference Room...'
Click on the room you wish to join.
You're now ready to chat!
If you are still confused, want more choices or have other operating systems, please take a look at this page.
Pandion Help: I'm on Pandion now and I think you should mention to Pandion users that they should change the font to MS Gothic / ＭＳゴシック from the (default) Arial or their Japanese text will not be readable by some users.
Hopefully that is all there is to it, Please post comments or questions here and we will revise this page as needed.
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Pandion
Is the pandion server shout down for good? It have been down for like 3-4 month I think.
If you could so please put it online again.
Pandion
It is up. You might need to sign-up on the server again.
Please use Pandian in the
Please use Pandian in the meantime. I hope in within the next few weeks, we will have the forum, chat, and video sections fixed. Sorry for the trouble!
What's going to happen?
I've been hearing a lot of different things lately. Some people say that you won't ever be able to connect to the chat using a jabber client again. Some people say that it's being worked on. So my question is, will you be able to connect to the chat sometime in the future with jabber clients such as Pandion again? I don't have anything against the reimplementation of the flash chat but I don't feel like chatting too often unless I can use a reliable jabber client instead of an integrated browser chat. So can you shed some light on the issue? Will we be able to connect to the chat with a jabber client again?
We'll have to ask Zen about
We'll have to ask Zen about that since it was on his server. I am pretty ignorant about chatting, but I remember the huge fuss when we took down flashchat the last time :)
I'm sure we can work out something.
New chat not so new
I'm finding that a lot of people including myself aren't liking the "new" chat. I for one prefer Pandion. It may not be the easiest for new members to get started, but with help from the site and from members, I think it's the best system.
*agrees*
*agrees*