[SAV1OUR]

stop it im welling up

[S4B]

you old softie

[Chris]

I've just upgraded to a later version of the forum software, please let me know if you find any problems.

[S4B]

will do honey. Chris can you do anything about the chatroom? It keps booting us out mid convo, which is very annoying. Maybe this is why it fell into disuse before?

[Chris]

When it's busy? When it's quiet?

Seems okay to me at the moment, I've been sat in there for 30 minutes.

[Yudster]

There seems to be a time limit on it - when it booted me out I had been on for about an hour or so I think, and it said "your session has expired" - hence me thinking its limited.

[Console]

I went through the sourcecode for the chatroom a while back, and I don't remember seeing a session timeout, it's more likely that's there been a temporary connection problem and the chatroom server logs out idle connections. Still though, it shouldn't have too often.

[MK Chris]

Yeah, but it also does it periodically before then, doesn't particularly seem to be when it's busy - it appears to be random.

[S4B]

Really is random, kicked me out 5 times in an hour the other night. Got to the stage where I could get one line in and then it'd kick me out but all my other internet applications including the forum were working fine.

[MK Chris]

Trouble is with a chat room though, if you temporarily drop the connection, it could kick you out because it needs a constant connection; with a regular web page it only needs a connection when you load a page (generally speaking) so you may not notice.

[S4B]

wouldn't that be the same for MSN and yahoo tho?

[Console]

Trouble is with a chat room though, if you temporarily drop the connection, it could kick you out because it needs a constant connection; with a regular web page it only needs a connection when you load a page (generally speaking) so you may not notice.

That isn't the case with the CM chatroom though, as a persistent connection isn't possible over HTTP. Instead it connects to the server every two seconds to get updates; it's a bit AJAX'y in nature, except it's in Flash. Still, if you miss to many of those update connections, it will log you out.

[S4B]

errr? english rather than techno speak? is there anything you can do honey?

[Console]

is there anything you can do honey?

I don't even know what the problem is, how can I do anything about it?

[S4B]

cos you're console the genius and can fix anything.

[Yudster]

You do know what the problem is, its been very clearly explained. What you don't know is the cause of the problem! I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of it somehow.

[S4B]

Thanks Yuds. Console, what Yuds said. I thought the flattery route may help as well though. Should we proclaim him king of Java and flash and see if that helps?

[Console]

You do know what the problem is, its been very clearly explained.

Technically you've explained the symptoms, not the problem itself. The problem could be a simple connection drop, or a built-in timeout, we don't yet know.

Should we proclaim him king of Java and flash and see if that helps?

I wouldn't, I'm not particularly fond of either.

[S4B]

You do know what the problem is, its been very clearly explained.

Technically you've explained the symptoms, not the problem itself. The problem could be a simple connection drop, or a built-in timeout, we don't yet know.

So you're looking into it?

[quote='Console"]

Should we proclaim him king of Java and flash and see if that helps?

I wouldn't, I'm not particularly fond of either.[/quote]

How about king of ice cream?

[Console]

So you're looking into it?

No, although Chris might be.

[S4B]

Thanks guy.

BTW I've now got used to the new look forum and really like it.

[Yudster]

I do to. And I'll make ice cream if you want to be king of it.

[S4B]

ooh Yuds do you make your own Ice cream that's very exciting (was gonna put cool but rethought it!)

[MK Chris]

My mum has made ice cream before, but I'm not a big fan of ice cream, especially not chocolate ice cream, which she made.

[Yudster]

Ice cream is the easiest thing in the world to make - I did Butterscotch and Clotted Cream at the weekend!