FlyerTalk Live! - Need some help testing the new area.
 

To all FlyerTalkers. We are in the process of testing our new "FlyerTalk Live!" chat area and we need some volunteers. If you are interested please go here, enter your name of choice, hit "connect", wait for the chat client to launch and start talking.

For FlyerTalkers with concerns about how this may affect the Bulletin Board we have in place, please don't worry as the chat client is currently residing on an independant server and will not impact the BB server.

Thank you very much for your help and we will appreciate any and all feedback.

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ThanX...
Michael at WebFlyer



[This message has been edited by Michael at WebFlyer (edited 04-13-2000).]

Unfortunately, I got an error message saying that if I was behind a firewall or proxy server (aren't plenty of us?), I would probably not be able to use this.

That's good feedback TravelWeary. I hope I didn't inconvenience you overly much. I wasn't aware of how this would effect people behind firewalls. Let me look into it and see if there is a way around it.

Thank you for your feedback.


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ThanX...
Michael at WebFlyer

Here is my feedback from behind a LAN...

DigiChat could not locate the specified host.Please make sure you are using the correct host name.
java.net.UnknownHostException: host3.digichat.com

It works fine, no problem to report... yet... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I am behind a company firewall. Could not read the server, server timed out.

worked fine from home!

Seems easy enough to navigate in and out of! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif Not much going on here- yet! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

No probs at all loging in to the new chat rooms!

Wish someone else was there! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cool.gif

the Boards loaded fine... but there was no one there.

It would odd to talk to myself!

Michael: you're getting e-mail

Things work fine on this end. I can already see my productivity coming to a crashing halt http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

It seems to be working OK, just what I need, something else to keep me from doing my work!

OMNI: and no big deal except for me... could we change the background color for the United LOGO from that depressing black to something more fun like Dark Blue or Gray?

It's no big deal, just me being finicky.

Now something else to keep me from the cats. Yaz already has his paw on the circuit break... (TILT!)

I received:

"No response was received from the server. The DigiChat Server may not be running, or may not be a compatible version. Please contact the administrator in charge of the site.

jave.io.InterruptedIOExecption: Read Time Out"

Also: Any chance of making it so, when it does work, that it uses only the nickname we use on FT?

Just to be obtuse... it doesn't work in the lynx browser.

No chat for me, unless I sneak on from work... ;_;

Worked OK for me about 6:10 PM Pacific Time on April 13...

Cali

No one in chat room except me. It was working fine though.

It worked fine on my computer!!

I think we should all set up a time and chat!!

Works like a charm. Thanks for using a java applet client - means it'll most likely work from my Linux box! (UNLIKE the beta-test of webflyernet! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif - which doesn't work at all even on Windoze, for that matter)
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Works fine, no problems, but I was the only one home! Good job!

Just spent about 15 minutes in there with MileDog, Empress, Jon Toner & a few others. Everything seems to work A-OK. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

It worked just fine for me.

From work this afternoon I got the same message as LAX 1K. But tonight from home it was great and I spent a pleasant hour plus in there with little difficulty. I think I got booted accidentally at one point, but I was able to get right back in.

Thank you for getting this up and running! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Worked from home (IE5, cable modem, behind router but no firewall)

Worked fine this morning. No one else there http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif but it worked fine...

Sebastien

I just got the same error message as LAX1k, but I'm behind my firewall at work (just as well, otherwise I'd never get anything done http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif ). I'll try again from home.

Sorry, I tried, but could not seem to get my message to the others. Where is the manual??

ranles...I was there...just had it minimized while I was browsing the "real" FT.

Works just fine. Tried the regular and private chat features with a guninea pig...

I got in fine this morning from the office.
I could get in with no problem.

It's fine for me - an a party making three people there!

works for me... koko and I just traded insults... boy was that fun!!!!! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Catman:

The United icon is actually taken directly from their site - background and all. Amazingly enough, that's their background! It is a dark blue, but because of the restrictions on colors for the WWW, it's very dark. Thanks though!

--Lisa @ Webflyer.

I was just there and it worked fine. I had to leave though because I was all by myself and I got scared.

Worked for me -- logged in time to see everyone leave <grin>

Hi Michael: A few technical things:

*There were about six users on when I got booted off the system and could not get back on for awhile. I guess maybe it's because I was typing too fast.

*Can't seem to save the United LOGO in my profile. I like the F-T one, but U-A's my airline.

(just a suggestion: would love personal logos... like a sheep for PremEx or a lion for QUiet Lion or a tree for baobab.

I don't have to tell you what LOGO I would love!)

Again, good luck Michael and thanks.

It'd be nice if it remembered who we are when we log back in. Also tree wanted me to point out that there is no BA logo http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Also, it really needs a password... I just logged on as geo1004, then catman, and then Rudi. This could be dangerous. Be careful. Stolen identities http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/eek.gif

I can tell kokonutz from the tone of his posts, but everyone else is a mystery to me... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif


[This message has been edited by geo1004 (edited 04-14-2000).]

Doesn't work for me from my work ... firewall I suppose ... works fine from home ... but you've got to add a username/password or it will never work!

Beckles, Nutz and Geo are absolutely right. Can you use the FT password database in some way?

Smiley's would be good too http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by james (edited 04-14-2000).]