ASF Live Chat Trial

[professor_frink]

Dunno if my computer has anything to do with this, but using the chat through firefox was pretty rough. Computer slowed to a crawl whilst I was using it

I loaded it up through IE and it worked perfectly(and so did my computer)

Anyone else experienced similar problems?

 

[mit]

Prof,

I use firefox and it was fine.

MIT

 

[professor_frink]

Prof,

I use firefox and it was fine.

MIT

Thanks mit. Must have been something at my end

At least it works ok on IE so I can use that for future occasions

 

[nunthewiser]

thanks for the chat facility , works very well and used by at least 12 or more on a daily basis during market hours

thanks

 

[nulla nulla]

Hi Joe

We have been using the chat site to go back and forth between work, trading and keeping informed on various stocks. Tne method is to log in then when you come back, to check the save records of posts since your log-in. This lets you browse what has happened while you are away. Yesterday at one point when I came back to the chat screen, the message displayed was that "Time had elapsed and I had been logged off". Is this normal to boot someone if they haven't posted within a certain time frame? If so can you advise the time frame we need to operate within to avoid being booted and losing access to the discussion threads?

regards
nulla

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi Joe

We have been using the chat site to go back and forth between work, trading and keeping informed on various stocks. Tne method is to log in then when you come back, to check the save records of posts since your log-in. This lets you browse what has happened while you are away. Yesterday at one point when I came back to the chat screen, the message displayed was that "Time had elapsed and I had been logged off". Is this normal to boot someone if they haven't posted within a certain time frame? If so can you advise the time frame we need to operate within to avoid being booted and losing access to the discussion threads?

regards
nulla

Hi nulla,

I'm not 100% sure to be honest. I haven't explored the live chat software as much as I should have. I would suggest just experimenting with it a little. Ensure that you have clicked the 'Remember Me' box next to the login form when you log in to ASF. That way you will remain logged in until you manually log out. If you don't check this box you will automatically be logged out after 20 minutes of inactivity.

 

[etingsoon]

Where can I able to load the 'ASF Live Chat Trial' program?

I couldn't find the button to click on for this program.

 

[nunthewiser]

Where can I able to load the 'ASF Live Chat Trial' program?

I couldn't find the button to click on for this program.

at the top of screen . there is a tab called " chat " in between the "shop and the competition " tabs .no software downloads just a live chat , mainly used during ASX trade hours but others use it from time to time in the evenings

avaniceday

 

[Tanaka]

I only just discovered the live chat room on ASF. Noticed that it's usually empty Great feature not being used, I sometimes use other trading live chats on those long lonely US hours trading sessions. It would be great to bounce ideas off other traders while live!

 

[nulla nulla]

I only just discovered the live chat room on ASF. Noticed that it's usually empty Great feature not being used, I sometimes use other trading live chats on those long lonely US hours trading sessions. It would be great to bounce ideas off other traders while live!

I had the chat sit open for two hours today and no-one came in. Eventually i closed it out to uise the screen for other work. It has been a bit quiet in there since the site upgrade and some chatters are chatting elsewhere. Give it time and people will return.

 

[Joe Blow]

I only just discovered the live chat room on ASF. Noticed that it's usually empty Great feature not being used, I sometimes use other trading live chats on those long lonely US hours trading sessions. It would be great to bounce ideas off other traders while live!

I had the chat sit open for two hours today and no-one came in. Eventually i closed it out to uise the screen for other work. It has been a bit quiet in there since the site upgrade and some chatters are chatting elsewhere. Give it time and people will return.

Gents,

Try bumping this thread if you're in the live chat room and would like to let others know you're keen for some stock chat: https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3863

 

[nulla nulla]

Gents,

Try bumping this thread if you're in the live chat room and would like to let others know you're keen for some stock chat: https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3863

Thanks Joe. Broadcasting when chatters are in the room, particularly those with interests in discussing a specific topic, is a good idea.

Been arround for a while too but appears to have disappeared over time.

 

[Joe Blow]

I am trialling a new live chat system that I feel has a number of advantages over the old chat room.

It is now possible to create your own password protected chat rooms for private chats with small groups of people. You also have the option of joining a public chat room or chatting privately with those on your friends list.

For those who would like to give it a shot, look for the chat bar at the bottom of the screen over to the right.

If you have any questions or feedback please feel free to post in this thread and let me know.

 

[Kremmen]

If you have any questions or feedback please feel free to post in this thread and let me know.

It's so extremely CPU-intensive that the whole site is almost unusable on older machines. Most page loads on my laptop consume 100% CPU for a while, followed by an Unresponsive Script message ("A script on this page may be busy, or It may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.") Then, we can click on "stop script" and finally use the page.

If this is going to stay, please give us a setting to turn this "feature" off.

 

[CanOz]

It's so extremely CPU-intensive that the whole site is almost unusable on older machines. Most page loads on my laptop consume 100% CPU for a while, followed by an Unresponsive Script message ("A script on this page may be busy, or It may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.") Then, we can click on "stop script" and finally use the page.

If this is going to stay, please give us a setting to turn this "feature" off.

Wow, I've got 5 year old dual core and its doing ok on it...how old is your PC?

CanOz

 

[Joe Blow]

It's so extremely CPU-intensive that the whole site is almost unusable on older machines. Most page loads on my laptop consume 100% CPU for a while, followed by an Unresponsive Script message ("A script on this page may be busy, or It may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.") Then, we can click on "stop script" and finally use the page.

If others are experiencing similar issues please let me know in this thread. I'm very interested in finding out if this live chat feature is causing any performance issues with people's PCs.

If this is going to stay, please give us a setting to turn this "feature" off.

It's only a trial at the moment.

 

[nulla nulla]

Seems to function okay on a 10 year old ibm thinkpad. Just needs to have a few chatters online at the same time to give it a proper workout.

 

[notting]

What's the point? We like to chat with an audience, don't we?

 

[Kremmen]

Wow, I've got 5 year old dual core and its doing ok on it...how old is your PC?
CanOz

Of course a dual-core would be fine. A piece of bloated javascript is only going to take down one core. I'm talking about a P3. And, yes, that's old, but it runs fine for web browsing. Look at the relativity: I can run mail, IMs, a dozen tabs in firefox and so on and (so long as I block all Flash ads, of course) still be under 10% CPU usage. The fact that one tiny chat feature wastes 10x the resources of every other thing I'm running combined is totally out of proportion to its usefulness. When I say "IMs", I run Miranda, which I have set to do ICQ, Yahoo chat, google talk, MSN and Facebook. If anyone wants to chat to me, they can do it via any of those, using approx 1/100 the resources.

 

[skc]

Just opened a room called... Let's talk about stocks baby (no prize for guessing the tune that goes with the room title).

Drop in for a yarn - just to test out the functionality of the chat.