The Great Tree

Durin Mephit · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: CyanChat

Previously, I posted a CyanChat log including Rand Miller. Surprisingly, nobody asked me about CyanChat.

http://cho.cyan.com/chat/

It would be cool to see the Great Tree members flood CC for a while Smile

The Java client for webbrowsers often runs pretty slow. I give the thumbs up to the Magenta client. If you're not running Windows, there are clients for other OSes as well. See: http://stoneship.org/myst/cyanchatclients/
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Rils · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject:

I'd never heard of Cyan Chat till recently... what is it, beyond yet another chat client?
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Professor Askew · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject:

Another chat client. Except, I guess Cyan people show up every now and again.
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Durin Mephit · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject:

As I mentioned, you can chat in the Java client... I just find it to be a littel unreliable Smile

Yes, it's Cyan's own proprietary chat system.
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Daedalus · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject:

I remember CyanChat being my original foray into the community. Before Riven was released, it was all that really was until forums became more popular (at least that I was aware of).

RAWA and MarkD (Deforest) used to be on frequently to chat. Later LemonLime (Eric) and others would visit now and again. The regulars are always changing but I pop in now and then to reminisce and visit.

There's only a few people that remember me as Jovaris... man, that was like 10 years ago.

Rils · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject:

Is it internal to the Cyan company, aka, do they chat about project stuff? Or just another way to keep in touch with eachother?
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Daedalus · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject:

For as long as I've known, it has been running on a little cyan-colored server called "Cho." Very Happy

Durin Mephit · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject:

CyanChat is open to the public, so don't expect anything secret to be said there.

Most of the time, there's no-one from Cyan actually on it. Now and then there is. Rivenchan has been regularly attending while she's interning at Cyan. The only interesting tidbit that we got out of her today was:

Rils · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject:

Do tell...
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Durin Mephit · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject:

OK, that's weird. I'm now getting a message that my IP address is blocked from accessing CyanChat until tomorrow.

Doesn't say that I used a bad word. And I'm sure that I *didn't* use a bad word... I had a problem where my internet connection completely froze for a while. Everything was down. So I couldn't have said anything at that time... I was idle for a while up to when things froze.

It was only some time after that when I tried to get back on that it gave me this message.

Weird.
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Daedalus · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

You mentioned your manuscript, didn't you? Wink

Saxy · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject:

mANUScript

.... So who's gonna ban me, huh?

Laughing

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Moiety Jean · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject:

Phantasy Star Online's word filter was so funny and broken. You were allowed to say "ass" because there was an enemy called Grass Assassin, but you couldn't say "hell" even though there was a whole class of weapons prefaced with "Hell." You couldn't say sHOES, salTWATer, blow (let's blow this sucker up!), weed (I'm hiding in the weeds!), and a plethora of other completely common words because they either contained swears or were otherwise associated with something frowned upon.
So ridiculous!
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Cycreim · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject:

Hoes on its own is even a legitimate word!
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