Friday Night Football Live Chat Soft Launch

Submitted by bcoop713 on
**Update -- Thanks for helping test it tonight. I shut it down so I could fix a few bugs. See you all tomorrow.
 
I built a thing! With Brian's blessing, I made a chat app specifically for MGoBlog to use during football games this season.
In an effort to make a chat room filled with a thousand people readable, I implemented a mana bar.
 
It costs mana to send a message.
Mana refills over time.
The more messages per second are in the chat, the more mana it costs to send a message.
The goal of this is to get people to think more before they type.
 
Also, everyone starts with 3 lives. You lose lives if the mods think you are posting inappropriate content.
If you run out of lives, you will get sent to Bolivia.
 
This is very much a work in progress. Over the next week or two I will add the ability to embed tweets and links, as well as a more official log in process. 
I also expect to need to tweak some internal algorithms after we get a game or two under our belts.
Help me make sure all the kinks are worked out for tomorrow by joining the chat tonight at http://kibitz.io/#/mgoblog
 
If you have any comments, concerns or suggestions, please email me at [email protected]
 
Thanks and enjoy!

 
MGoBoard

Michigoss

September 3rd, 2016 at 8:18 AM ^

A bug a found:

If you hit the arrow without typing anything, it charges you mana but also counts towards the messaging frequency. This could hypothetically be used by trolls to more or less silence people.

Joined: 08/29/2016

MGoPoints: 206