Quote by TSM
i cant see the problem people are having, im speaking froma developers pov as i am
there is not much diffrent in the new site at all, the change is not just a design one
1) the system is fundimentaly diffrent from the old one on the back end and would not have been compatable with the old chat without a full rewrite
2) the old chat was written fully in flash which meant that it would not work on many moble browsers and things like the iPad, the new one does except for the cams currently
3) the new system auto balances across many servers, the old one did not so could cause stability issues, the new system will allow the chat to grow easly
4) the chat has most things in the same place as before except for the rooms list, viewing a profile is easier than before as you click on the username then click on the view profile, i bet its been designed like that for the future to have extra buttons to do things like 'ignore user'
5) they are breaking away from the relianace on flash which can be very memory hungry and will hazard a guess that many people find their computer gets slow as the chatroom has been open for a while
There are lots of reasons why they are moving, from a dev view i can see why its happening and know the technologies they are using behind are forward thinking open source (Jabba XMMP) and will see the site though for many years to come.
I myself would have also made the same decision as them to move off the old platform.
Try the SH Desktop app as its a nice and quick way to use the chat, it looks a little better and feals faster.
:thumbup: its nice to see someone understands,the guys behind the scenes are working tirelessly to get this just need to have a little patcience.
