New Toy's for the website regulars, Happy Holidays! New Chat Room...

[myke]

I want to thank all of those who have already made a visit to test out the new services.

Below is a overview of the new Chat Room, a list of instructions and commands, a basic how too..

The Old room is still in operation, you can see in the navigation bar, top of page there are now to TAB's, one says "CHAT" and one says IRC CHAT.

IRC CHAT is the new room!

When you click the link to enter the chat room, please select your desired nick name before entering. If you forget you can still change it with the following command

/nick newnick Where is says "newnick" put your name. Once you are logged into the room. (warning, proper first names may already be registered in the channel services, try something different if you can't choose your first name)

The room also has a Trivia Bot, type the command in room and get a 10 question Science / Science Fiction trivia game! Everyone can play along and you can see who is the trivia champ.

!Trivia When logged into the room type explanation point Trivia as it shows in red.

More Information about trivia

Spoiler: 

Teams:
When somebody does the command !trivia team, team mode begins. With a default number of questions in the round. (10 questions)
Team 1: This specifies the name of Team 1.
Team 2: Name of team 2.
(Team 3): Name of Team 3. If used.
(Team 4): Name of Team 4. If used.
Tied message: If at the end of the round if any number of teams are tied for first place.
Team 1 victory message: Message displayed if team 1 wins.
Team 2 victory message: Message displayed if team 2 wins.
Team 3 victory message: Message displayed if team 3 wins.
Team 4 victory message: Message displayed if team 4 wins.
For example to make the team 1 victory message:

"Team 1 soundly whoops the butts of Team 2".
"*t1 soundly whoops the butts of *t2".

The *t1 and *t2 are replaced with Team 1's and Team 2's names.
Limit Join Period: You can choose to limit the amount of questions which a person must have joined a team by. Or simply leave it not depressed and have no limit.

Themes dialog.
Allows certain !themes to be added, the themes themselves are rather simple, when set they allow for a different number or questions, question file, and an option to use team mode with this theme.

To be accessed, for example if you type (!trivia tvandmovieshard) would start it up with the More Difficult set of TV and Movie questions.

Patron commands:
Command ----------- Function

!strivia ---------- Stops trivia
!trivia ------------ Starts trivia. (10 questions)
!trivia x --------- x must be a number. (example !trivia 25)
!trivia Unlimited - For an unlimited question round.
!trivia Team ------ For team mode.
!trivia Team # ---- For a specified sized team game.
!vowels ----------- Gives the vowels of the answer.
!last ------------- Gives the last letter of the answer.
!words ------------ Gives the number of words in the answer.
!join x ----------- Joins a team, must be in team mode, x can be a 1 or 2 or (3 or 4) in 4 team mode. (Example !join 1 or !join 2)
!hof <unit> <time>- Displays the hall of fame, for <score|streak|time|wpm> of time <day|week|month|year>
!hoffast ---------- Displays speed hall of fame
!hofstreak -------- Displays streak hall of fame
!hofwpm ----------- Displays words per minute all of fame
!hofscoreday ------ Displays top scores for the day.
!hoftimeday ------- Displays top times for the day.
!hofstreakday ----- Displays top streak for the day.
!hofwpmday -------- Displays top words per minute for the day.
!hofscoreweek ----- Displays top scores for the week.
!hoftimeweek ------ Displays top times for the week.
!hofstreakweek ---- Displays top streak for the week.
!hofwpmweek ------- Displays top words per minute for the week.
!hofscoremonth ---- Displays top scores for the month.
!hoftimemonth ----- Displays top times for the month.
!hofstreakmonth --- Displays top streak for the month.
!hofwpmmonth ------ Displays top words per minute for the month.
!hofscoreyear ----- Displays top scores for the year.
!hoftimeyear ------ Displays top times for the year.
!hofstreakyear ---- Displays top streak for the year.
!hofwpmyear ------- Displays top words per minute for the year.
!promotion -------- Displays next military promotion and points needed for it
!record(s)--------- Displays the record time and streak
!champ ------------ Displays the champ
!pause ------------ Pauses the current round.
!resume ----------- Resumes the current round.
!repeat ----------- Repeats the question
!next ------------- After half the time has expired allows a person to timeout the question early.
!themes ----------- Displays available themes
!stat(s) ---------- Returns the patron's current rank, score, best time, best streak.
!stat(s) <name> --- Allows !stats for other players.
!stat(s) # -------- Allows the bot to call the stat of a specified rank.

I will list a few of the more fun commands here with some basic descriptions.

Our new Channel Bot name Caprica is sassy little Cylon bot. She may chatter up the room a bit so don't be alarmed. Type any of the following commands in channel to make use of her services.

!Weather <zipcode|city,state|city,country|airport>
!WeatherForeCast <zipcode|city,state|city,country|airport>
!Google <text>
!IMDB <text>
!YouTube <text>
!Twitter <text>
!Wiki <text>
!Dictionary <word>
!Horo <sign>

If the window is filled up with text and you would like it to be cleared type: /clear

If anyone would care use a regular IRC client to join the room, please feel free to message me for the server information.

[myke]

New categories added to our trivia channel.

type !themes

Current themes are: Cocktails (832 Questions) SYFY (976) Tech (1108) TVandMovies (4398) TVandMoviesHard (3800)

Type !trivia to start a regular Science fiction trivia game. (976 questions)

The command to start a new category trivia.

Example: !trivia Cocktails

[myke]

Chat Room Upgrade!

We now have no Ad's and the abilaty to split screen youtube video's

Modify a link to look like this, paste in channel:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kgxhEq8w9xw

Click the YouTube Icon...

The result:

Click pop out at the top right to open the video in another tab and close the split screen.

[myke]

New Features added again.

Chat in full screen, you will notice a link towards the bottom of the Main Chat page.

New Web Page added to the site: syfydesigns.com/news

Channel News and Trivia rankings.