Additional CSS styles can be added in AdminCP Style Custom CSS box. You can overwrite default styles. The code below changes the scrollbar color of PANEL & PM box, increases the size of smilies and stickers, sets a transparent background color if the chat is iframed.
The icons are base64 encoded entries in blabax.css. Your best option is to use darker background colors. If you insist on changing icon colors, with the built-in search function of your favorite text editor search and replace RkZGRkZG in blabax.css.
Custom fonts that are not available on the user system must be downloaded by the user and put additional strain on the user browser to display text. The text in chat is UTF-8 encoded which means you can have letters from different alphabets on the same page. Your best option to have a custom font with all possible Unicode letters available in chat is to use Google fonts directly from a Google CDN: AdminCP Style G-Font
The icons are base64 encoded entries in blabaxpro.css. Your best option is to use darker background colors. If you insist on changing icon colors, with the built-in search function of your favorite text editor search and replace RkZGRkZG in blabaxpro.css.
PHP/AJAX group chat system - easy to install, easy to manage and understand. Mobile friendly responsive design, support any browser and HiDPI displays ready. ChatGPT included. Frontend translated in 18 languages.
ESC-centric - the ESC key closes any element that is on top and opens the main panel in chat and the menu in Admin CP. On mobile, a swipe from the left edge opens the main panel in chat and the menu in Admin CP. Users can scroll with arrow keys, mouse wheel and by dragging. A double click swaps between select mode and drag to scroll mode. CTRL+SHIFT+1-9 activates rooms 1-9. CTRL+SHIFT+L/R arrows cycles through rooms.
Any file can be uploaded and posted in chat: images, audio mp3 and video mp4 that are recognized automatically and can be streamed while a link to any other file is displayed instead. Users can share and watch YouTube, Twitch.TV & Vimeo videos, post & listen to SoundCloud and MixCloud tracks, playlists. Users can post an address and display in chat a map (Google Maps), source code (the language is recognized and highlighted) and there is also an IRC-like /roll dice feature (up to 99d99 with sum/avg).
TimeMachine displays messages and announcements at intervals. TheGodFather scans public & private messages and replies with predefined phrases on a keyword match or via extensions and Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT). GIF machine posts a GIF image when a keyword match is found. Aunt Hedwig delivers in chat external content such as tweets, RSS Facebook posts. Bling Machine displays in chat fullscreen animations, announcements and adverts.
You can import user groups from your forum or CMS so that moderators are moderators in chat, those who are banned are not allowed to send chat messages etc. A Forum/CMS user enters the chat with permissions based on their PRIMARY group from your forum/CMS no matter how many groups he/she is a members of. There are also some differences:
I podcasted as a means to grow an audience and to engage with a different group of people. I talked about social media as a way to build my online platform. I Periscoped and got on blab to further my online presence. But, what I truly enjoyed, and what was at the heart of my online experience, was blogging.
This new website will focus on everything to do with your blog. Not how to podcast. Not how to build a Facebook fan page. Not the intricacies of new video platforms like blab. Not on how to advertise on Twitter.
Identities are complex and in any given situation, we may choose different language--or even pronunciation--to signal different aspects of who we are. A core project in the Blablablab is focused on the interplay between linguistic style and the construction of identity. Here, work in the emerging field of Computational Sociolinguistics to help bring together theories, observational analyses, and large scale models to advance the fields of Linguistics and NLP.
Online environments can be very supportive or very toxic places. We believe that the absence of anti-social behavior doesn't necessary make for a positive online environment. Here in the Blablablab, we develop new methods to study what leads to healthy communities and how to nudge people to behave in more pro-social ways through both system design, social analysis, and NLP tools.
Our world viewpoints are often shaped by the information we're exposed to. The Blablablab has multiple projects examining how people engage with different kinds of news sources and how this exposure influences our world views. We also examine this within the broader context, examining both multilingual and international exchanges of ideas.
The internet brings people together but geography still plays a major role in our lives. In a series of interrelated projects, the Blablabab examines the impact geography plays on our social lives, how we can the characteristics and culture of a place, and how to support broader survey methods through location inference. We also like to make cool maps.
Prospective PhD graduate students interested in joining Blablablab should apply to one of our affiliated programs. We typically accept most students through UMSI though we occasionally will accept students who apply to the Computer Science division of EECS.
Current U-M graduate students of any program are welcome to email about potential research collaborations. Blablablab is highly interdisciplinary and we especially enjoy working with social scientists.
We often have self-funded visiting students for the summer and (rarely) during the academic year. In these cases, usually the student has some prior research experience, similar research interests, and (due to luck) there is a current project going on in the Blablablab where they would be a good fit. If you are a self-funded student who wants to come join us for the summer, you should send an email in February or March before the summer that
BlaB! AX is a free AJAX/PHP group chat system. Both the frontend and Admin CP are with responsive design, HTML5 and CSS3 compliant, support all modern browsers (incl. mobile browsers), HiDPI displays ready (no raster images).BlaB! AX is tiny - all that users load with their browsers is less than 200kB (60kB gzipped) in 5 HTTP requests (incl. sounds, emoticons and other images; stickers and avatars are loaded on request) and 95% of this content is cached for further use.
BlaB Lite 3 is an AJAX based chat system. Unlike all the previous versions, BlaB! Lite 3 requires MySQL, SQLite or PostgreSQL database, at least PHP4 and a modern browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0+, Opera 8.5+, Mozilla / Firefox or Konqueror / Safari.
Hey all! I hope most of you have been able to download the NEW SUMMER 2016 ADVENTURE ISSUE! The blab is a great way to get involved with the mag even if you have not contributed! We talk about our favorite stories and features from the issue and get to know one another a little more up close and personal! The Abra-zine community grows a little more with every issue, and we consider everyone who has been involved along the way, part of our creative family! We do hope you join us! Click the flier in this post to bring you to the FB events page so you can RSVP. Also it is important to go through that events page the night of the Blab, so you can access the webcast link!
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