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Doriana Xat BOT News

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

It’s been just over a week now since we first brought you the post on the Xat roBOT. Sure enough a testing version has started popping up on various Xat chats.

Doriana, the BOT’s creator, has setup a simple version of the bot on our Xatworld chat,  (AyudaBOT 237681602) and another on Noctambulo’s chat (NoctambuLoBOT (238938943). All it does right now, upon entering the chat, is send you a welcome PC and, if you try to interact with it, repeat or ECHO anything you type.

Added: to see how this BOT could be used, open a private chat with the AyudaBOT, type COLOR CODES and it will respond to your request. Should work! :)

Stay tuned!

Note: This BOT is not officially supported by Xat.com

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Xat Mobile Updated – v0.10b

Monday, April 12th, 2010

xat mobile

The Xat wiki has been updated; presumably with the latest information on Xat mobile’s latest version (v0.10b).

Included in this latest release are the ability to private chat, ban/kick, etc… Read all the details here.

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A Closer look at Xat’s new Banish Feature

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Although Banish hasn’t officially been given the okay, some chats, including Freewebs, have been able to test the new feature.

The new banish feature is simply a more extreme version of the normal ban feature. If a user gets banned for more than 1 hour, banish automatically kicks in. That user will not be allowed to see chat messages or the chats user list. They will only be able to see and, if they desire, contact the chats main owner, owner, or moderator; presumably to beg for forgiveness.

Here it is in action:

xat banish power

xat banish power

xat banish power

Note: Keep in mind that this IS NOT a new power and rather a new feature. When Xat has finished testing banish should be available in every chat, albeit at a price.
Thanks again Lizzie!

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Spanish Help & Trade Officially Linked

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

xat ayuda cambio

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Xat will see that the upper right Help and Trade icons, those typically found sitewide on every chat page, have now been replaced by their Spanish counterparts, Ayuda and Cambio; truly a milestone for one of Xat’s most trafficked site demographics.

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New Links Added to Chat Pages

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

xat links

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.

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Xat Secretly Working on Stricter Banning Option

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

xat stricter banning

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.

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Xat’s Black Pawn Kiss

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

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!

xat black pawn kiss

xat pawn kiss

Hopefully that makes things a bit more easy to understand.

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Xat’s Power 56 – Snowy power!

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

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).

xat new kissess

xat snow kiss

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.

xat globe kiss

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.

xat globe kiss 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!

xat snowy smiles

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

Kisses

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New Xat Smile/Kiss: SHARK!

Friday, November 20th, 2009

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.

xat shark kiss

xat shark kiss

xat shark kiss

xat shark kiss

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?

jaws poster

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New Upgraded Xat Smiles

Friday, November 20th, 2009

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!

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