User blog comment:Ohmyn0/What's Going on with Chat/@comment-26686429-20110419210219

Looks great, here's a list of stuff I'd like to see:
 * Working on monobook (or at least redirecting special:Chat to Special:Chat?useskin=Wikia
 * Timestamps
 * Bold and italic using normal wiki formatting
 * /me
 * A user sending more than one line not requiring a new avatar and bolded name for each line
 * Less lag (displays locally until the server picks it up, so it looks like the message is sent)
 * A few emoticons
 * (hopeful) a way to connect with a client (XMPP or IRC?) (pleeease?) - using a web interface isn't the easiest, and I'd like to be able to log, and set custom pings
 * Highlights on your own username
 * Messages you sent should be highlighted in some way
 * Pressing the "up" key should replay your last sent message (similar to every IRC client, terminal, etc.)
 * Blocked users should be blocked in Chat
 * Especially users blocked for spam, otherwise this will become a spam-heavy mechanism in no time flat
 * Along the anti-spam line: if a blacklisted word/phrase is sent to the chat server, that message should be dropped, and the user be told that their message was disallowed (much like the spam blacklist works currently with a normal edit)
 * Join messages are annoying, prehaps make them align left
 *  Random Time  21:02, April 19, 2011 (UTC)