New & Upcoming PriusChat features

[Danny]

[you], you may already know that I've just completed an update to the site's software. While this update brought many problems that I have hopefully completely fixed, it also adds some great new functionality to PriusChat for the future.

The first and most exciting new feature is Prillian, the PriusChat Instant Messenger. For those of you with pop-ups blocked, you might not have seen this new feature yet. I can assure that PriusChat will never utilize pop-up advertising, so I encourage you to list PC as a safe site on your pop-up blocking software.

So, what is Prillian?

Prillian is a web-based instant messenger client that we provide to our registered users so that they can easily and quickly contact each other. It is very similar to other instant messenger programs you may have used previously, but the users are generally limited to other members of this forum.

Many more of your questions can be answered here:

http://www.priuschat.com/forums/faq.php?mode=prill

This is a great system to instantly get in contact with your fellow Prius Enthusiasts, and I encourage everyone to use it.

You can now select a Photo to put in your public profile, also. All you have to do is upload an image to your Personal Gallery under the Photo Album and then on your profile you'll see "Photo in Public Profile" under the "Interests" box. Simply choose from the drop-down box the image you want to use and hit submit. Ta-da, you have your personal photo in your profile. This is different from your avatar.

Finally there is the new mini-toolbar on each thread that you view. This has the option to:[list]

So there's lots you can do in that little toolbar.

Acronyms: This is a neat way to highlight certain words that are used in threads that are underlined, and when you place your cursor on it, it shows what the word means. I think it'll be great for those acronyms that new Prius owners & enthusiasts always have a problem with. 2 I have set up right now are PriusChat & ICE . If you can think of more acronyms to add, let me know and I'll add them to the database.

Links: Soon I'll be adding an image for those of you who have websites and want to let everyone know about PriusChat can use to link to PC. This is also a place for those of you with Prius sites to submit a link to your site, or a site you've seen before. Please do not submit any commercial sites.

Right now I have "Technical Links" set up, but I will also add "Individual Enthusiast Links" and others if requested.

Finally, on the Photo Album you can now upload multiple files at a time. Simply click the blank button the far right when you get to the upload screen to bring up more upload fields.

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Coming soon to PriusChat:

Prius Profile - This will allow you to have a page all about your Prius. You'll be able to list your color, options, MPG, mileage, accessories, hacks, etc plus post a photo of your Prius all on one page in your public profile.

Toyota Technical Documentation - from techinfo.toyota.com. This will be a fee-based service, but free for at least our Platinum Sponsors.

Many more things!

Thank you again for your patience during this latest upgrade, without you all there would be no PriusChat. I can't believe we've almost hit our 1 year anniversary!

[john1701a]

Wow! That's pretty cool.

I trusted ages back when I made the decision to develop a massive owner website that somehow an actual shared online resource would emerge too.

It did here.

Thank you.

[TonyPSchaefer]

Well, I'd have thought that you'd get the hint, John. After all, Danny's message was addressed specifically to you.

[victor]

Hi Danny,

I dont know why you addressed that to me, but thanks for the info anyhow. There are so many features in IntegraMOD that it can be hard to keep track of them, and if you also add further mods it can get quiet dunting.

Keep up the good work.


I have completed my EU English voice command list, but I need to validate it. Is there anyone here (in the EU) who would like to do that for me, and provide feed back? When its validated I will post it for the knowledge base.

[LungCookie]

Ah. We each see our own username in Danny's message.

How very confusing. :|

[victor]

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Didnt think he used a YOU button.

[DaveinOlyWA]

AHHH...shoot...*sigh*

and i thought i was special...

personalized messages is pretty cool though.

so do we need to do anything else to use the IM thingy? or do we all automatically get it?

[BobA]

WHEW... I saw my name and thought... I didn't start a thread... lately I've been needling Danny and thought I was in trouble for sure...

Thanks for all you do, Danny

Bob Andersen

[betshsu]

There used to be a link to launch Prillian on the side bar, but I don't see it anymore. Maybe I'm losing brain cells.

I was also disconcerted for a sec when I saw my user name in the post. It's a bit unnerving to see something addressed to you... maybe this is related to the evil eye watching over us...

[betshsu]

Okay, I am losing brain cells. I just found the little link right after that post, it's under join chat. Maybe I was thrown off by the fact that someone was actually in the chat room.