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Sep 5, 2009, 4:42 pm

I know that several people have been waiting for it, and I have finally finished the first working version of the chat transcript.

It currently only displays the latest chat transcript, but it's a start. After a chat is complete, its transcript should automatically be posted. In the future, all past chats should be available too, but that feature is not ready.

It seems like a simple thing to do, but it was actually quite a bit more complicated that one might think to create and post the transcripts. I also created a new visual style for the transcript, which I hope will make it fun to view, while being easy to follow.

The latest transcript will always be available here:

https://www.lotterypost.com/chat

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Sep 5, 2009, 5:03 pm

That looks great Todd. I like the lightbulbs. When someone enters the chat room they light up the place with the yellow bulb.

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Sep 5, 2009, 5:15 pm

It's like a stream of conciousness thing.

You are a good programmer Todd! Nice job.
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Sep 5, 2009, 6:20 pm

Very nice Todd! Are you going to add all the chat transcripts from the beginning, from when the chat first started or are you just going to start from now on? It would probably be a lot of work to put all of the chats from the past up. lol.

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Sep 5, 2009, 6:37 pm

Quote: Originally posted by ThatScaryChick on Sep 5, 2009
Very nice Todd! Are you going to add all the chat transcripts from the beginning, from when the chat first started or are you just going to start from now on? It would probably be a lot of work to put all of the chats from the past up. lol.

I'm going to try and add all of them. Right now, I have them all back to some time in 2008, but the others I have to track down. Not sure if you remember, I had a big server crash a couple years ago and I had to get hard drives recovered by a recovery service. Lots of stuff was misplaced at the time. If I can track down all the logs I can get them converted and loaded.

I also have to write a new Web page to access the old logs. So this is a first step to get the latest logs out there for people to use. I figured it was better to get something out there now, rather than waiting for everything to be finished. Don'tcha think?

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Sep 5, 2009, 6:56 pm

it's definitely pretty cool Todd..particularly if one forgets some neded info he/she dicussed with others...I was more curious as to when chat will be available full time..or at least more than once a week

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Sep 5, 2009, 7:24 pm

Quote: Originally posted by JonnyBgood07 on Sep 5, 2009
it's definitely pretty cool Todd..particularly if one forgets some neded info he/she dicussed with others...I was more curious as to when chat will be available full time..or at least more than once a week

It's not ever scheduled to do that. There is not enough full-time demand for it.

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Sep 5, 2009, 7:42 pm

I love it Todd.
Only problem I found is could you stop the auto refresh feature on the transcript? I get about half-way thru and then auto-refresh and I'm back at the beginning again.

Thanks...Bud

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Sep 5, 2009, 7:54 pm

Quote: Originally posted by budward on Sep 5, 2009
I love it Todd.
Only problem I found is could you stop the auto refresh feature on the transcript? I get about half-way thru and then auto-refresh and I'm back at the beginning again.

Thanks...Bud

Yes, I will change that, thanks for the feedback.

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Sep 5, 2009, 11:16 pm

WOW!, thanks for all of your hard work Todd in bringing us the chat transcript.

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Sep 6, 2009, 5:00 am

Nice new feature. I miss being in the chat. Not sure when the next time will be. Too busy working on inventions.

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