May 01, 2012
The Badlands
I would like to introduce The Badlands. This is a new section to Chatropolis signified by the land of the lawless. It can be found on the Whochat page toward the bottom. Think Wild West, think post apocalyptic wasteland, think Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. That's how it is there and always will be. The main rule of that section is: If you don't like what goes on there, then leave. It's not the Badlands for nothing.
April 15, 2012
A new room has been added.
A new room has been added. What's Your Number? is located in the Cybersex section and is another room for you in need of that phone talk, however which a way it happens. Enjoy and a new room is coming up at the beginning of the month.
April 10, 2012
Springing forward...
Good day everyone! Things are going well and I'm glad to see a confidence in all those that are chatting as we are trying to continually make your chat experience one of the best. Moderators are in place and working to keep the idiots from being idiots whether they know they are idiots or not.
Spring is here and summer is soon approaching so you all will want your chat time and want it in abundance in between vacation time, kids, trips to the lake, beach, or to the grandparents even.
Earlier, I asked for ideas for rooms as I would be installing new rooms based on whether there is a following or a growing need for a theme. For example, Celeb Flesh in the XXX Image Exchange - HUGELY popular. Some room ideas fall flat, oh well. So here is what I'm going to do for the next few months.
Every two weeks I will introduce a new room based on your requests. On the 1st and 15th of every month I will be adding a new room theme and let it fly. This includes Gor, Roleplay, and rooms in the other major categories. I'll keep on doing this until I run out of ideas for themes. All new rooms will be given a 6 month trial period, with a few exceptions, and if they fail then they will be removed. More on that point, some rooms will be pruned to make room for new expansion. No point in keeping a room that just is not desired or are not deemed desirable. Please keep in mind also, not all requests will get a room as some requests are for duplicates of themes that are currently present so don't be upset if your room request never came to reality.
I'm going to be adding a couple of new surprise sections as I plan on rearranging Chatropolis rooms and sections to be more fluid. All room URLs will remain the same so any Bookmarks and Favorites will not need to be recreated. I think it will just help make the room sections easier to read, especially in the Cybersex section where you can scroll for days with the amount of rooms in that one section.
It's going to be a fun spring and summer and hope to serve you all as well as we can.
TECH NEWS
April 10, 2012
The dreaded white chat screen/reload hell
Probably the most common and the biggest technical issue I experience is the dreaded white chat screen. It is a true pain in the ass for most chatters. What is this, you ask? It's the situation where you enter a chat room and the top and bottom frames load just fine but the middle frame is just white like it is trying to load and stalled. For others, it will default to a 404 error in the middle. For some others, it will load the text but the text does not scroll. All of these things are painfully irritating to most.
Everyone wants to blame it on Chatropolis and how laggy it is, how the servers aren't worth a bleep, and get upset because nothing is being done about it. Contrary to that popular belief, most typically this symptom is caused by your antivirus's webshield which is trying to preempt the open stream connection of the Chatropolis HTML chat room. It sees the open stream as a security threat because in most situations a web browser like IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc, opens a connection with the remote web server when you go to an address in the address bar. The browser requests the page information to be sent to it. The web server responds in kind with the most updated files it has stored and communication between browser and web server is brief and to the point. Once all data is loaded, the connection is closed.
Chatropolis rooms are not built like this so these web shields go nuts and try to close off that connection as virus tend to open connections and leave it open in order to transmit information from your end to whatever hacker created the virus. Chatropolis rooms, I rest assure you, merely transmit the data from the middle frame to your end from the server, that's it.
What you must do is look into adding exceptions for cs10.chatrpolis.com/* and cs12.chatropolis.com/* to the web/internet/surf shield so it will ignore the Chatropolis chat servers. You could also disable the antivirus program while chatting but I don't recommend that. The biggest issue with that is most do not know where that is within their own antivirus program and there are so many variants and names for it that I cannot know exactly where to guide you in order to add it. I can with AVG and perhaps Norton 360, but there are far more antivirus programs out there than just those two. If you wish for a compatible recommendation for Chatropolis then I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows Vista and 7 users in addition to MalwareBytes for some of the best anti-spyware coverage that is free on the web.
This combination will keep you safe but allow you to chat without these white screen and 404 issues. This is ONLY a recommendation and not a requirement.
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