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Can we make the dice bot more accessible?
Yes, let's do this. Make the d6 use numbers instead of pips.
Theory background. Using text to represent graphics isn't really accessible, and tends to be done primarily because it “works” for people ...
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Can we make the dice bot more accessible?
(Foreword so I can actually sound trustworthy as I write about this: I've been an accessibility developer for the past few years doing things exactly like this.)
We don't actually have to change the ...
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Let's brainstorm some [chat] events
Micro-RPG play/playtests
Our Very OwnTM chatizens have written a number of small RPGs. (And there are hundreds of other micro-RPGs out there worth trying!) Often people will take them for a test drive,...
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Broken Chat Links
Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room. A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users. (/faq#...
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How persistent are "continue this discussion in chat" rooms?
Rooms with any sort of meaningful content exist forever.
As outlined in the chat FAQ, "A room is considered worth retaining if it has more than 15 messages by at least 2 users." Any such room is ...
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Let's brainstorm some [chat] events
Tabletop Tasting Time!
A lot of people visiting the chat (including myself) have awareness of only so many different RPGs, with some folks only familiar with D&D or D&D-and-friends. Let's ...
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A "moved to chat" comment appears to be a broken link for me but works for others
According to this Meta.SE post you need 10k reputation to view frozen/deleted rooms. It looks like neither you, nor any of the other users that can't see this room have at least 10k reputation on any ...
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TRPG General Chat: vote for your feeds! (2e: Electric Bugaloobear)
RPG.SE Hot Network Questions
Site: Hot Network Questions, but only the RPG.SE ones.
Feed link: https://lackadaisical-appeal.glitch.me/hnq/rpg.stackexchange.com
Does what it says on the tin. We ...
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Dealing with More Comments After Movements to Chat as a User
Yes, it is worth flagging them for attention, because mods don't view every question and answer every day, so it's how they would know that the comments haven't simmered down in this case. It's ...
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What is the most starred message in TRPG General Chat?
By the power of Grayskull manual scrolling!
This post seems to have the most stars with 20:
Congratulations @doppelgreener and @nitsua60, and thank you to everyone who participated in the diamond ...
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TRPG General Chat: vote for your feeds! (2e: Electric Bugaloobear)
New RPG.SE Questions
Site: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions?tab=Newest
Feed link: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/feeds
Populates the ticker with the newest questions being asked on our own ...
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Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG News feed misbehaving in Chat
The disclaimer at the top of ENWorlds' site suggests it may be due to their upgrade.
Welcome to this new upgrade of the site. We are now on a totally different software platform. Many things will ...
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The Stack Exchange bot is doing my dice rolls instead of the Dice Service bot
That can happen when for whatever reason (usually a network hickup or something like that) we fail to load the dice user. In that case we just use the default system user for a while. Whether or not ...
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Why is it unacceptable to answer a closed question in chat?
If a question is permanently closed, sure.
If you are just end running around the entire goal of having people improve their questions, get them opened, and get peer reviewed answers from the whole ...
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RPG General Chat: vote for your feeds!
Botch Blog, a collection of stories of our failures. The idea originated in the chat, and all the contributors (so far) are chat regulars.
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TRPG General Chat: vote for your feeds! (2e: Electric Bugaloobear)
Beyond the Bundle
site: http://beyondthebundle.com/
feed link: http://beyondthebundle.com/feed/
The Bundle of Holding is a tabletop RPG version of the videogame Humble Bundle: it promotes small-...
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Is there a way I can make "Let us continue this discussion in chat" happen sooner?
A third commenter interrupting an exchange seems to prevent the prompt.
Akixkisu, Someone_Evil, and I took to vandalizing one of my answers, and we could not get the prompt until Someone_Evil stopped ...
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RPG General Chat: vote for your feeds!
RPG Theorist
https://rpgtheorist.wordpress.com/feed/
I've just started a blog. The contents are to be primarily theoretical pieces about RPG construction and its implications, GMing tips, away-from-...
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RPG General Chat: vote for your feeds!
Angry GM
http://theangrygm.com/
http://theangrygm.com/feed/
Angry GM writes on all matters of running games and designing adventures/campaigns. His posts split about half-and-half between truly system-...
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The Looking-For-Games Chat Room
I've seen a lot of chat rooms on a lot of Stacks, and I'm sorry to say a dedicated LFG room will just freeze and die. An LFG room is only as useful as its traffic volume, and most users simply don't ...
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Can we add the feed of RPG.se Hot Network Questions to the chat feed?
It'd be good to test out.
It seems simple enough to implement, based on your description. The only potential problem I foresee is that it might get too "noisy", if too many questions hit HNQ ...
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Have we considered generating a chat for each comment section?
Coming at this from a different angle, there's nothing stopping a (20+ rep) user from doing exactly what you're suggesting. You could, if you like, instead of leaving a "usual" first comment take a ...
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How do I make voice-to-text work in RPG.SE chat?
This is an odd Windows feature, it appears. What I discovered, after experimenting on Meta.SE, Christianity.SE, and here is that sometimes, after hitting window + H, to enable voice to text, you have ...
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TRPG General Chat: vote for your feeds! (2e: Electric Bugaloobear)
Fantastic Maps (blog)
site: http://www.fantasticmaps.com/
feed link: http://www.fantasticmaps.com/feed/
Fantastic Maps is a down-to-earth blog about mapmaking, with a strong fantasy bent. It talks ...
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Why are certain chatrooms giving me a Page Not Found?
You already have enough reputation to participate in chat. That's not what's going on there.
Since forever, chat rooms that aren't active get automatically frozen (read-only), then eventually ...
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RPG General Chat: vote for your feeds!
I'm going to quote this suggestion so all the feed can be found in one place.
I think that added HNQs to the chat feed will be useful information to have now that there is an official way to ...
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Why are certain chatrooms giving me a Page Not Found?
SevenSidedDie's pretty adequately explained why you can't view those chat rooms, which is the core of the issue.
I want to clarify what's going on with the reputation and access, since you're correct ...
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Let's brainstorm some [chat] events
Movie Night!
OK, it's entirely unoriginal. And, OK, most of the movies that are on-topic for us are terrible. But it's not like we're under any obligation to keep these events relevant to our site's ...
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Is there a way I can make "Let us continue this discussion in chat" happen sooner?
Unfortunately, your options are limited.
You can create a chat room individually, invite the other user there, and post that link in the comment section. Or you do an uninterrupted ababab comment ...
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Let's brainstorm some [chat] events
Book Club!
Alright, I'll admit it: I've had Playing at the World for over a year, and I'm not quite halfway through. But with your help, maybe I could make it by 2018?
Alternatively, there are (of ...
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