New Site Feature: EduGeek.net Chat! It lives!

[GrumbleDook]

sheesh ... go out for a day of meetings and come back to find people have invaded the chat server!

I'll never get any work dome during the day now!

[Joedetic]

Might it be an idea to have a social group that automatically makes all users a member of so that they're available in the main chat list? EduGeek Users or something?

[localzuk]

Might it be an idea to have a social group that automatically makes all users a member of so that they're available in the main chat list? EduGeek Users or something?

Listing 6000 members would be a bit much. I think the best way for people to add those they wish to talk to would be either by joining a social group that the other person is in, or by simply adding them manually to their roster.

[Geoff]

Other obvious candidates for 'automatic groups' are people you've PM'd and people you've added as a contact/friend on your UserCP.

[ZeroHour]

Other obvious candidates for 'automatic groups' are people you've PM'd and people you've added as a contact/friend on your UserCP.

People you add on vbulletin to your friends will be synced with your friends on Jabber soon so you will automatically build connections easily.

[Edu-IT]

I've just installed Spark.

[Joedetic]

Hmm yeah maybe I should have thought how big the userbase is first. LOL

[ZeroHour]

More wink based guides are live. If your having problems take a look. It will also show you how to get into the group chat rooms avalible.

[Jake]

Hmm..bum...got spark, got it all nicely setup, cannot connect to edugeek server. Probably our LEA blocking it someway, they're real strict on chat things.

[DMcCoy]

AH HA!

Spark does NOT use the proxy settings for the xmpp connection. HOW UTTERLY USELESS.

Tried on XP/OS X. Been reading up on the spark forums and bugs. If it works for you then you must be allowed to connect directly to the host on port 443.

[ZeroHour]

Hmm..bum...got spark, got it all nicely setup, cannot connect to edugeek server. Probably our LEA blocking it someway, they're real strict on chat things.

Try a different client like Pidgin or Pandion (both have flash guides).

Good luck

[Jake]

Pidgin worked, cheers

[ilisle]

Doesnt work for me, tried from behind and in front of our ISA server so can only guess its blocked by my LEA. Hell why am I surprised? EVERYTHING gets blocked by them

Nice idea though, guess Ill have to wait for the web client

Don't know if it will work for you and your LEA, but I installed the ISA Firewall Client (\\SERVER\MSPCLNT\Setup.exe) on my laptop, and it would appear that I bypass the LEA filters completely. Even talked to the LEA about it and they were unaware it was possible. It means I don't have to set proxies in browsers, chat programs etc, and it appears I'm completely unrestricted as to what I can view on the 'net.