News Flash   (2) News from Chatro
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.
February 22, 2012	It's been a while but things are good I'm so very sorry for not having spoken in so long but I've been really busy with Chatropolis behind the scenes so you all can enjoy your chatting experience! Things are going very very well and Chatropolis cannot be healthier. I have a few things to make note of for you and wish to share. We have moderators in place and they are scouring for predators and idiots that try to ruin our chat experience. I'm always looking for more and if you think you have the stuff you can apply. Any and/or all applications are welcome though be ready to put in the work and hours, yes hours. There is a Mod Application page (put Must Read page first then click to Mod Application page from there) I will be launching the Gor and Roleplay rooms again and I mean very soon. What I need are suggestions for ideas for roleplay rooms. What's hot, what's popular, what themes are in need, I'm ready to field them. Please submit your ideas at the Room Request page. Just know it will take more than just an idea but having bodies that want this as well. It will make more sense on requesting. I have a few Gor friends that I have been contacting and consulting with to come up with a strong list of rooms for the re-implementation of Gor at Chatropolis. I am also looking for room ideas. I'll be reviewing activity and will be purging some of the lesser used and not very popular rooms and hopefully replacing them with other themed rooms. If you have any ideas for rooms, have a following that wants it (so no room ideas just because you want it and no one else could care less), and can describe it to the letter so I know what you're talking about then submit your request with the Room Request form. Though we have moderators in place, please know there are multiple ways to assist yourself in case there are issues. Click the Mods link in the bottom chat frame to look to see if any Moderators are present on site. Click their name to send a telegraph to them or click the room title to go to the room and speak in person with one. Click the Support link and submit a web ticket to the Help Desk for whichever issue you may be experiencing. This is more preferrable as I can keep a track of tickets and more easily run down similar issues. The Help Desk is always monitored. Use the Support email address in order to address whatever issues you may be seeing. The Support email address is always monitored. Last but not least, I wish to address some of the things my moderators are looking for and trying to keep out. For one any breaking of any rules will be dealt with immediately. Now more carefully moderators are looking at little details that go against the rules of Chatropolis. For one, the names you use also count, not just what you post in a room. So idiots trying to use chat names to solicit things like rape, incest, zoophilia(bestiality), pedophila, etc. will be hunted down like a cheetah does a zebra and we have the time and resources to continue to get the job done. Be smart or be prepared to be uncomfortably booted on a regular basis. More to come with time. Enjoy your time otherwise!
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Tech News   (1) What technical changes are going on at Chatro and how they may or may not effect chatters.
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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