World: r3wp

New little game? A list, rows randomly turn red, click fast enough?:)

jep would be funny to build it in and I guess Reichart would sell 
it even as world class entertainment system. :-)

(with inbuild chat :)

lol

Are you kidding....what you guys all don't realize is that AltME-Rebol3 
"is" a a top selling game in Korea.  They try and guess what everyone 
is going to complain about next.  Someone won big money on the whole 
Troll email issue, and every time I rant I know this one guy loses 
his rent money (one would think he would learn by  now).

My World quit working this last week or two.  Has anything changed 
at the site that does world validation?

None that I know of, I'm on about 10 worlds being hosted in differnt 
places, they all work.

Henrik wrote - "maybe I am just unlucky, but I managed to draw 4-5 
people into AltME, but they all left again. I can't exactly explain 
why. I suppose they were expecting a 100% feature complete ready-for-enterprise 
groupware system for free. the questions usually are "why don't we 
just use IRC or ICQ?".


They just didn't see the advantage. another factor could be that 
there already are many ordinary chat solutions available and they 
are tired of having to adopt yet another one."

Most "people" don't have a sense of community.  On other hand, I 
invited one person that now has brown a world to about 20 people, 
they have been "living" inside AltME for about 1.5 years now.  They 
can't even imagine using anything else, since they do play with everything 
else.  It is simply a preference.

I have to admit: REBOL3 is the only place I use AltME for. I think 
it really only works when grouping at least 5 or 10 people together.

that may be why I'm failing

Thanks Reichart.

Turns out that you have to register the world name with safewords 
by providing a World Password.  This is something new in the last 
year.  I was using a registered and paid worldname before but very 
soon after paying the world quit working and I created  new worlds 
by appending numbers to the end of the worldname.  This worked for 
a year but now that my yearly membership has expired - the worldname 
with a number quit working as well.

Henrik;

  I use it for just three or four people to keep track of a to-do lists. 
   Has worked for us for a couple years, albeit with some problems 
  in keeping the world going.  The To-Do lists are very helpful.

indeed they are. I use it myself alot, heck sometimes even when I'm 
just me in my private world. :-) it's still useful.

Gordon, try to simply re-register the world name ensuring that if 
the world was on port 5400 to not have any other AltME worlds running 
(server or client).  If you do this it will reregister that world 
to the closest available port (this would be 5400 in your case).

I have had a problem since hosting AltME worlds (and being cheap 
and not reserving the name).  However, the worlds are used every 
day, but they still drop.  I found the problem was more frequent 
when I had more worlds being hosted.  At one point I had three worlds 
up and it seemed all of my worlds would become un-registered at the 
same time as one of them having not been used for the 10 day period 
that will un-register them.

I would love to set folks up here with Altme (and QTask for that 
matter), but it will take a while to sell them on it.

I have a customer who is afraid to install AltME because they are 
afraid it is spyware.  Anyone have a good list made of promises or 
in the website is there some way to ally this fear?

Reichart - AltME did not developed into open API framework, so I 
really can't see much differece to IRC e.g., whish is, client scriptable, 
provides security if needed, moderated discussions ...

Steve....AltME is spyware...you simply have to be invited to spy. 
 the answer is,

http://www.altme.com/privacy.html

http://www.altme.com/rights.html

I always tell people to do a net search to see if a program is spyware.

Can't get any better than that.

Graham, funny enough, that is what I just did.  I simply typed in 
"spyware AltME" and found my own page.

At the top.

I think that is far more reassuring than what a company says about 
itself.

Agreed.

another feature request: when people use background colors, make 
some kind of algorithm that would make it impossible for the text 
color and the background color collide. :-)

But that means yoyu won't have invible text!

perhaps an option to neutralise a colour combination by the reader?

Or, a hover mode that reveals the hidden text?

clicking on message normalizes color (untilgroup-change)?

maybe with a bigger border

also not to make assumptions about what default fore/back colors 
should be.  paying attention to OS defaults can help there.

scott, are you using a TFT display? the colors you use really strain 
my monitor.

Just click on the disable colors button ;)

:)

sweet, now if they were only the colors I'd want, instead of the 
white screen supremicists defaults

well, research says that black text on white bg is less dangerous 
for the eyes than white text on black bg (especially in a dark room)

love to see a reference.  white is for paper to be.

I think it's even more straining to the eyes to mix black on white 
and white on black texts in various areas of the screen.

that's probably true.  altme stands out like a sore thumb on my screen. 
 All the other apps pretty much abide byt my defaults.

well, then perhaps allow color configuration in AltME?

I can stop posting in colors, actually.  I don't want to irritate 
anyone any further.  now that I've expressed my wishes for altme 
to not neutron-bomb my eyeballs, I'll swiitch it off.

nobody liked my last color scheme, either. . .  This one is closer 
to my windows default, though.   The last one was like old-school 
amber, and that is similar to my Textpad colors.

Hang on, was all these obscene colour schemes of yours some type 
of protest that all of us, who had no control over, were being subjected 
to?

ooooh.  topic is nice.

There's a formula for chosing a readable forground/background color 
pair here:
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/WebPageColors.html
That's one way to reduce some of the apparent subjectiivity

how's this?