Chat Room difficulty - Al-Anon Family Group

Emmie11 · Senior Member

Chat Room difficulty

Christy · ~*Service Worker*~

Hi ((Emmie))

Not cool!! Gotta find a way to get you in there!!
Try going to www.mipchat.com, see if that helps any..

Christy
(Cjo)

lmt123 · Senior Member

Hi cjo,

I went to that site you mentioned, got a lady construction worker in skimpy clothes, note that said visit later, and the word snaffu graphics or something like that. Lolol, didn't look like mip stuff to me!

(((hugs)))

Kathi

John_R · Veteran Member

No that's www.mipchat.net -- remember the .net. :) The .com is run by someone else.

Last night (or early this morning) one of the webchat.org IRC servers was down, which probably accounts for people's difficulties getting in.

Emmie11 · Senior Member

I have tried both ways and still can't get in... the white java box shows up on the regular MIP site, but rather than showing the chat and the people who are already logged in, it just says

Server Messages

***

I went to Mipchat.net and repeatedly got a message saying access was denied... oh well!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Emmie

-- Edited by Emmie11 at 21:00, 2006-01-01

John_R · Veteran Member

The new java client (www.mipchat.net) should now retry all four servers manually if the first connection doesn't work -- if it says disconnected or connection refused and just sites there, hit reload on your browser. You should get in.

The only issue I've seen with it was on a brand new freshly installed laptop that didn't have java on it yet. I had to go to http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp and download the latest version of java before it would work. This is probably something you've had to do already if you've been using the other java client though.

Christy · ~*Service Worker*~

Sorry for the ".com" snafu. That's what a brainiac I am when I get 4 hrs sleep..lol

Christy

John_R · Veteran Member

That's alright, I told somebody .org last night. I'm not sure what my excuse is. :)

The servers were more unstable last night than I've ever seen them, which is saying something. Unfortunately as long as they are behaving like that it won't really matter what program people use to connect, there will be random disconnections (which drive me bats). The inability of some people to get on at all though is puzzling. That should not be happening after the changes I made yesterday to the test code.

If you load up www.mipchat.net and it refuses to connect, hit reload and it'll try again. It should eventually connect, assuming one of the four servers it tries is up and working.

The material presented here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method to exchange information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal level.