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Users that access Spanish Xat will see that the upper right Help and Trade icons, those typically found sitewide on every chat page, have now been replaced by their Spanish counterparts, Ayuda and Cambio; truly a milestone for one of Xat’s most trafficked site demographics.

Sometime this afternoon, Xat rolled out two new links (forum and share) located at the top of any of the individual chat pages.

“Forum” directly links chat pages to Xat’s own Community help forum. The positioning of this new link may be all that Xat needs to get people to more easily find and participate in their forums.

The “share” link seems like a intermediary compromise to something that we personally submitted to Xat staff and wrote up on the Xat suggestions page. Regardless, we’re extremely happy to see Xat pushing growth via any of the many social networks and look forward to the new signups.

A few minutes ago we were alerted to something that we haven’t seen before. A new option called “Stricter Banning” that, although currently visible on the “Extra chatbox features, Extra options page”, still can’t be activated. Mousing over this option we can see the following tag:

“Try to stop unbanning (note may ban innocent people)”.

This looks to be an answer to people constantly unbanning themselves (perhaps by changing IP). Anyway, until the option actually takes hold, we have no way of trying it out or even knowing for sure. Btw, to get to it, EDIT your chatbox, then click CHAT BOX SETTINGS.

Stay tuned for more info! Someone Xat blogger is bound to come up with some more details on xatBlogs.com. Keep an eye out for it.

Credit goes to Noctambulo (you all know who he is *wink*) for pointing it out.

Update: This feature is “rumored” to take closer notice at chat bans. If one particular IP is banned, then banned again (assuming here that the same user unbans, resets his IP, and returns to the chat), this feature will block an IP range; which explains the blurb about taking out “innocent people” – credit goes to Phsycical from his interaction with Xat staff a few months back when “Stricter banning” was just an idea.

There still seems to be many many people that are unfamiliar with how the use the new Black Pawn kiss.

In a nutshell, here’s how to do it:

1. Get to your KISSES interface by first logging into Xat, going into any chat, and by then clicking on the magic eight ball icon.

2. When prompted for a message, type it and add #black to the end of that line.

3. Enter your password and use your mouse to select the Globe kiss (works will Bugs and Pull as well).

That’s it!

Hopefully that makes things a bit more easy to understand.

Xat’s eagerly awaited power 56 has transformed into and been released as the new “Snowy power”. With it users have access to a new “Snowy kiss” (see below).

Those users that do not have the new Snowy power can still take advantage of another new Christmas themed kiss called “Globe”. It too is now visible along with the other kisses.

In addition Xat has included an easter egg of sorts for the Globe kiss. By appending #reindeer to the end of the kisses message, the default Snow kiss snowman can be replaced by a reindeer.

Update: We missed this before but Xat has also added new smilie power functionality for the SNOWY power. Here’s an example of what you can do!

Update: Xat’s power WIKI has new and updated information on additional Snowy functions.

Kisses

Xat has added a new “secret” kiss (check the wiki for more info on what a kiss is and how to send it) to it’s current list of kisses.

Personally we were experiencing “new powers overload” and welcome this new change! Anyway, here are a few screenshots showing the new secret “Shark” kiss and what you’ll have to know to use it (hint: type $SetKiss=Shark in the chat prior to using it). Oh, one more thing, although we haven’t seen it, Xat has apparently created a (shark) smiley as well.

For the few of you that may have been sleeping under a rock for the past decade or flat out don’t own a television, this new kiss is clearly Xat’s own take on Peter Benchley’s novel cover or the blockbuster movies better known movie still. See the similarities?

Rumor has turned to fact this morning as Xat begins to roll out their new and upgraded smilies.

So far, we’ve seen the following:

(sad) – http://xat.com/images/sm/sad.swf
(rolling) – http://xat.com/images/sm/rolling.swf
(no) – http://xat.com/images/sm/no.swf
(jolly) – http://xat.com/images/sm/jolly.swf
(party) – http://xat.com/images/sm/party.swf

Stay tuned for more!

We’re light on details at the moment, but word has it that Xat may be planning to “redo” some or possibly all of the Xat smiles. In fact a source very close to the top has stated that Xat is “close to redoing all the smilies”.

We’re not sure what that entails exactly, but rest assured that if they do it, the smilies will be better than they were before. Do we really need to know more than that?

We’ll have to wait and see!

A picture is worth a thousand words, the adage goes, and Xat has taken that quite literally in an effort to help thwart off recent phishing attacks. Xat has launched a new and improved redirect page that they hope will better and more universally communicate the importance of not entering your login info into fake pages.

See it at work here

Remember to use extreme caution when opening pages that have been sent to you via private message or chat and never enter any personal information (registration info, email addresses, passwords, etc…) into any page without first checking your browsers URL.

Xat has made a few changes to its Macros function and has posted them to the Xat Wiki. More detailed information on usage can also be found here.