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Post by demonskull on May 19, 2015 14:54:15 GMT
What's the purpose of the Shout area ? I've wondered since we changed over and I can't really tell by the content.
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Post by JGonzalez on May 19, 2015 14:58:16 GMT
Google told me that wikipedia says, "Shoutbox From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [hide]This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia. (February 2014) This article does not cite any references or sources. (November 2012)
A shoutbox, saybox, tagboard, chatterbox or chat box is a chat-like feature of some websites that allows people to quickly leave messages on the website, generally without any form of user registration.
In their simplest form, shoutboxes are simply lists of short messages, possibly with information about their authors. The page may be automatically refreshed after a certain interval, or polled dynamically in order to keep new messages visible. Older posts are often deleted after a certain number of messages have been written in order to preserve space on the server. Technology
Shoutboxes are embedded into a page with inline frames or JavaScript. Many Internet forum and web blog software packages can be modified to add shoutboxes in sidebars on site pages. Shoutboxes are usually maintained in a manner similar to that of more complex boards, with moderators that can delete posts and ban usernames or IP addresses. Occasionally, features such as impostor identification, flood control, and profanity filters may be included.[citation needed]
Like most dynamic content, shoutboxes typically interface with a database, and some may query the database every time a page is requested. Unlike most dynamic content, however, shoutboxes are generally placed on every page of a web site, so they tend to cause disproportionate strain on databases. Therefore, care must be taken to ensure that shoutboxes do not use too many database resources. Caching systems like memcached can be used to mitigate this to some extent, or an alternative implementation such as storing all messages in system-wide shared memory rather than a database may be used.[citation needed] Alternatively, a shoutbox may be loaded from a flat file."
Seems legit.....
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Post by chrisperoni on May 19, 2015 15:42:48 GMT
It's just a place for im chatting
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Post by randomnobody on May 19, 2015 15:43:55 GMT
Pretty much. It's just a "live chat" area for folks actively "online" that isn't a specific thread. Basically, anything goes (within forum rules) and there is no specific topic as per forum thread format.
Instant messaging on a group scale, basically.
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Post by mindfulloffire on May 19, 2015 15:45:54 GMT
or for shouting frustrations about other things that would otherwise be frowned upon in "civilized" society
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Post by demonskull on May 20, 2015 12:08:47 GMT
Thanks Gents !
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