I am so glad to hear that you're working on this, now that the facebook group chats are down for the count.
Now... i do have some suggestions that would make it better.
1 st and foremost. It should be floating. Not staying in the same place whenever I scrollup and down the screen.
Agreed, unfortunately there are technical limitations that prevent us from doing that because our game is hosted in an iframe, we may be able to do something like that on the offsite version but on Facebook because we are hosted in an iframe that is not easily done unless we create a static height for the iframe.
2nd Id like it to have some memory of where you prefer it to be.
Agreed, we have not looked into how we would do this but is a good suggestion
3rd. The text should be able to fall under the name to the right. a lot of wasted space there not being used, causing there to be more lines, fragmenting the sentances.
We are going to run a test where we show full name and time to the right of the name and have message fall below making most use of the time
4th. There should be more than one group available. Id like to be able to make a group, call it something and have the option of making it a public group than anyone can see, and join in without any request, private groups that are still public in the sense that you can see them, but must make a request to see/join in convorsation, and finnally, Secretgroups that are not listed and have to be added into by a member.
Absolutely, better group support is something we want to tackle and more groups, but this will be a bigger undertaking but it is something that we want to do and will have more to discuss on this once we get the interface / function of the chat working for the existing groups we have
5th A little customization would be nice. Avatar from game included, options for background pictures or colors, and text colors.
After we get functionality down and people happy with it we can look to dress it up a bit if that is what people would like to see
6th Id like to see a friends list, with your groups that you are in included too.
7th, Id like to see this friends list to the left of the game, and your friends list to the right. friends list with tabs and options that create your what you are seeing on your left. ie If you have private convorsations with a squad member going on, their avatar has a little area, that highlights when they have replied, and you can click on it to swich to that convorsation, the groups you are in having thier own sort of avatar with 2 numbers on them, 1 showing how many people are currently online in that group, and how many unseen messeges you have.
Private conversations is another group that we have thought about but first want to get the basics down with what we have but good idea!
8th Id also like to see some privacy in the groups, options for the group owner to choose if you can see the messeges before enter the group, and definatley an online list of members who are currently reading what you type.
I also have to give you one bit of feedback on what you have so far. It works MUCH better on the "offsite" version of zombie slayer versus being tied directly to facebook. Thats why I am suggesting that you put a friends list to talk to one person at a time. Will lead people to your "offsite" verus playing directly on facebook.
as it is right now, I still will not be using the kano chats, but I am so very glad to see that you are looking to improve it. and making a "pop-out" feature was a great first step!
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