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Chat history
At the moment, refreshing the page clears chat history, and it's gone forever. This is particularly troublesome when in the middle of a conversation, and probably even worse if an important mod whisper comes in just before a refresh. It would be nice to be able to see chat history, preferably as far back as technically possible.
To reduce network, client, and server load, the history could be paginated, ideally lazy-loaded into the normal chat UI with an infinite scrollbar like Google Image Search or Facebook.
Customer support service by UserEcho
Please get some type of chat history.
Agree
two week chat history probably wouldn't take a lot of memory.
Firstly, this is definitely something we are planning on doing.
Secondly, the big obstacle is number of elements that end up getting displayed in the browser at once. There are several on each line of chat. Might have to end up doing some kind of pagination, we're still looking into it.
That's why I suggested lazy-loading or pagination. The number of elements would definitely be a problem (and already does cause slowdowns for those of us who don't refresh every single day).