World: r3wp

5400 is incoming port IIRC

5500 is for World lookup - outgoing. 5400 is incoming port, when 
you run your own worlds. 5400 - 5400 is vaguely described. But maybe 
it is because most ISPs don't block outgoing connections at all.

In order to run your own world, you need to DST-NAT (forward) particular 
incoming port to your machine.

Gregg : I run my own world ...I just never log off of that one.

It's not about running my own world. It's about connection to worlds. 
The thing is that this port 5500 seems to be an incoming port. And 
this one is routed wrong.

would be nice to allow opening groups in separate windows.

Or at least tabs.

we talked a little bit about subgroups in the r3-alpha world: a group 
that holds subgroups, for particularly shortlived topics, like an 
event (last nights episode of XYZ TV show) or for short discussions 
of questions. this avoids mashing separate subtopics into one group 
and they wouldn't scroll out of view as quickly.

The alternative suggested was threaded discussions.

Maybe make optional expirable groups that way if a post doesn't take 
place for some time in a respective expirable group that group will 
expire and clean itself up.

I wouldn't want the material to disappear, but if it could be very 
compacted, perhaps.

it would be nice to see a list of files that you are about to download 
in the file sharing module. there's nothing useful about seeing dialogs 
with "There are 5 files to download.".

and apparently multiline messages don't work on this machine. strange.

I try again. Someone mentioned he got AltME run through a proxy. 
I still failed with support from programs like Proxifier etc. But 
please note that I tunnel all the traffic through SSH as well.

wouldn't it be best to contact Reichart privately, and ask him, if 
the fix would be possible? Maybe there is some little bug somewhere, 
which would not take long to fix?

Best to send something believed to be a bug to Feedback...since then 
it is queued.

Does the folder sharing features work yet in Altme?  I never have 
seen any shared out folders so was just wondering.

Paul, I believe it is just a limitation of this World.  I have file 
sharing available on a personal world that I maintain.

Yup...

does AltME store information about window maximization somewhere? 
I have an annoying problem under OSX Leopard, when I switch my macbook 
between the internal 1280x800 screen and my external 1680x1050 screen 
where AltME sometimes decides that the window should be maximized 
at all times. When resizing the window, the content will be resized, 
but the window itself fills out the entire screen except for the 
menu and the dock. It does not fix itself until after a reboot, so 
I don't know if it's a bug in AltME or Leopard.

Thanks Brock.

Henrik, altme/prefs/window on disk.

Thanks John...

What are the maximum amount of users that AltME can handle?

I don't think there's a hard limit.

It would be a combination of the number of users, number of messages, 
bandwidth, and server resources.

Louis, if you look in the file "users.set" under a AltME world, the 
user number is an integer, so I guess with current implementation, 
max is 2'147'483'647.

Is that all?

Until an AltME built on REBOL 3 comes out, it will have to do.

Seriously, I wonder if anyone has a world with around a thousand 
users. If so, I would be interested in some comments.

This is the largest world I'm on. The number of messages is the killer, 
because of the way it loads data.

Gregg, that is my concern. I just wonder how many users until communication 
breaks down in the sheer volume of messages. Communication is very 
difficult---there are so many barriers. AltME is great for small 
groups though.

Yes, the other thing is that it may be served from anywhere, so how 
well a world scales depends on the machine running it. If you want 
the best scalability, serve it from a good machine, or have them 
host it.

Can ALTME be used on a close network that doesn't have access to 
the internet?

Or does it require the internet for people to be able to find the 
world name? (I assume it does)

Was hoping to pitch ALTME for a need that our managers have at work

Paul, if I understand correctly, your company would have to purchase 
the Enterprise Server which is not free. See: http://www.altme.com/products/altserve.html

Yeah I believe your right.

Thanks for the comments, Gregg.

Just thinking about the ALTME left side list pane.  I think instead 
of clicking each item such as "M" "Users" and "Status" that there 
should just be one button the top left that you can click and rotary 
thru the list screens.  The caption above the list pane tells you 
already which pane your viewing.  This allows you to add other options 
on the top of the list columns.  Just makes it more concise and user 
friendly in my opinion.

Good idea.

Although the converse of that, hidden features are sometimes not 
found by novice users.  Having them visible is always best and minimizes 
mousing around & clicks.  I like the idea of more items, but from 
a usability standpoint the feature should be more obvious.

novice users = less computer literate users

Hmmm...I was thinking of it showing all of them, but the WHOLE bar 
is a single button, that rolls through them....

I vote for "mark all read" as most usefull function needed right 
now :-) Those who use multiple PCs, where you join AltME on one not 
being online for weeks know what I talk about :-)

This password bug is really really annoying.

:)  Just write the passwords on a post it and stick it on your tube. 
 But yes I agree.

but if I put it on youtube, everyone will know my passwords!

Anyway time for a new build of Altme with 2.7.6 encap ... no more 
black dos boxes ...

What is the password bug?  I must have missed something...