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We discussed this internally the other week and we agree that this would be handy to have. Especially in cases where a moderator pings several community team members at a time and one of us responds before the others. Using our existing chat UI and some inspiration from how Twitter shows linked tweets, we would like to propose the following implementation. ...


The transcript isn't 5 hours ahead of the chatroom, your timezone is 5 hours behind the UTC timestamps that all of Stack Exchange uses, including chat transcripts. Chat messages can be displayed in your timezone because chat uses Javascript to calculate the time difference between your system time and the server's time, and adjusts the time of incoming ...


To view the chat transcript of a room, grab its ID from the URL and replace it here: http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/{chat-room-id} For Stack Overflow chat: http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/{chat-room-id} For Meta Stack Overflow chat: http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/{chat-room-id} When you view the list of rooms, the ...


A simple improvement in the short term might be to simply allow two-way navigation between chat messages. If a message is a reply, I can navigate back to the previous message. However, there's no way to jump to descendants that I can see. Even if they aren't viewed on a separate page, improving the navigation would be a step in the right direction, I think.


Chat transcripts live on, even if the room is deleted. You can find the oldest deleted rooms still present on the server, for example, and those that actually had a conversation are still present. The earliest deleted room with a conversation is the Google App Engine room (room id 14), and the transcript is still available today, for example.


Have you tried using jQuery? $('.reply-info').click(function(){ var anchor = this.href.match(/#\d+$/)[0], msg = $('#message-' + anchor.slice(1)); if (msg.length){ this.href = anchor; $('.highlight').removeClass('highlight'); msg.addClass('highlight'); $('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: msg.offset().top }, ...
