Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1194893-20150620045801/@comment-452-20150622213949


 * Your solutions of user-run scripts are not very efficient

The entire chat system is based upon user-run scripts. When you load Special:Chat, your browser loads and runs the chat script.


 * solution 1 is impossible

No. Solution 1 is perfectly possible, I use it myself. However, it does not fulfill Balmz requirement that it appear even if he is not there.


 * Solution 2 may increase the chance that any other user who runs the script is present whenever Hunter Perry enters the chat, but may not guarantee it.

...? Solution 2 ensures it, as it does not rely on any particular user being there. Under this solution, when Hunter Perry enters the chat, it guarantees that Hunter Perry sees the message, regardless of anyone else being there.


 * Solution 3 takes away the "joke" effect that Balmz wants, because it's only seen by one user.

If that single user is Hunter Perry, then Hunter Perry gets the welcome. However, it does not fulfill Balmz requirement that everyone see the message.


 * The best way to achieve what Balmz wants is to run the script in a MediaWiki page of the wiki, making it independent of any user's presence.

In other words, Solution 2.

I do not understand why you're responding to my list of all possible implementations as if they need to be refuted. They are simply a list of the 3 ways the effect can be achieved. As you yourself have concluded, Solution 2 is indeed the solution that Balmz appears to want, now that Balmz has been more specific. There is nothing in Balmz response that indicates anything other than him wanting Solution 2, so I'm at a loss as to what your point is.