World: r3wp

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...

If you change worlds too quickly, sometimes the password field doesn't 
get a chance to update before the link connection.  So the remembered 
value for the new world gets trampled and you have to resort to brain 
power and password typing.  :)

I got a crash from that recently. What's more annoying to me is that 
the Cancel button often is ignored during connect.

the password bug is very annoying.

I've never seen it with the dropdown [near the top left of window]....only 
switching via the Homw button

Ahhh yeah that password bug.  With switching from REBOL3 to the R2-Beta 
world so much lately I have experienced that bug often.

Do you have different passwords for each world? I use the same one 
on 5 worlds, swap frequently between them, and have never seen this 
bug.

well, if you use the same password you won't see the bug!

I think it takes the currrent world password and applies it to the 
world you're changing to.

Yes Ashley - different passwords here

Ashley, LOL, this is why I have never seen this either...
OK, whom ever, please report in Feedback...

I walked away from this PC about 24 hrs ago after posting a note; 
I returned to find the browser very sluggishl taskmgr showed altme 
consuming 90+ % of CPU; I had no screen saver set.  I killed the 
process.  One of the last things I recall doing in altme was clicking 
on an http  link ( whihc was why I found IE7 running slow ...  I 
use Firefox generally from an icon or the start  menubut leave IE7 
as the default browser

Robert, thank you for donating your computer to our server farm while 
you were away…

JK

Any chance of getting an ALTME version that support MS proxy authentication. 
 I know that DOC Kimbel has a proxy authentication that works on 
large enterprise environments.  If it can work, I will go to EDS 
and see if they would support purchasing ALTME as a collaboration 
solution.

We currently have a need for such a tool but it would have to support 
msproxy authentication because EDS personnel work from many client 
sites as well.

I experienced proxy problem too last week, when I tried to connect 
at meeting room at our dislocated company location. I needed go via 
the proxy. Dunno if AltME supports proxy at all?

It supposed to support socks proxy but MS proxy requires either Kerberos 
authentication (the current standard) or NT LAN Manager authentication. 
 Doc's implementation does the NT LAN Man authentication.  Which 
if ALTME does that it means support for older windows systems as 
well since older ones don't support kerberos.

Is there a way to have AltME not block when it is downloading a message? 
I am getting tired of having AltME lock up on me when I am typing 
- it has interfered with my conversations quite often today.

Does the buffer size make a difference?

Message size limit in Altme?

I don't think so. Even one line messages have been blocking me for 
30 seconds or more.

It might be a factor that I am connected to the internet through 
Comcast.

My message size is set at 1000.  Seems when I go 10000 or more it 
gets a bit slow

Mine is set at 1000 too. Let me be clear here: I get the slowdown 
whenever AltME retrieves a message, even if I didn't write the message. 
Today, the messages have mostly been from Paul :)

Do an test of your bandwidth at speakeasy.net or something.