Development Notes for Mutiny Community Version 4.0 - 2022-10-04
The Web Log is here!
What does this mean?  It means that some chat messages will appear on the web page http://mutinybbs.com/chatlog.html
Why?  Because there's a lot of interesting things talked about on Community and if people searching for such topics on the web stumbled across these conversations then they can log in here and become a part of the community!
But I don't want Google (or other search engines) indexing my messages!  Okay I respect that that's why there's a whole set of features to allow users to pick and choose what gets on the web and what doesn't.

First off, you have already noticed just by logging in you were asked a one-time question: Do you want your messages on the web.  If you answered yes then *future* messages you write will be flagged as "web-visible".  Nothing you wrote before this will become web-visible unless you manually make that happen (see commands below)

Secondly, no messages in invite-only channels (if we ever get such a thing) will show up on the web, even if such messages are flagged as "web-visible" because the process that builds the web page's content ignores such channels.

Third, you can see if a message is web-visible or not by looking for a small "w" just to the left of the "re:", if there's a "w" there, then it's flagged as web-visible, otherwise it isn't.  So if you're talking with someone and your messages are not web-visible but theirs are then you'll know it.

Okay now for the commands:

'/? web' - help on this whole topic, shows all of the commands below.
'/ch +w' - if you are a channel moderator this sets your channel's preference to be web-visible.  What this does is if a user posting in the channel has no preference one way or the other then messages posted in the channel will be web-visible.  (the user's preference will trump the channel's)
'/ch -w' - if you are a channel moderator this sets your channel's preference to be NOT web-visible (this is default)
'/web' - sets your user preference to have your posts be web-visible.  This can also be done in the /webpref dialog but this is a quick single-command way to turn on this preference.
'/noweb' - sets your user preference to have your posts be NOT web-visible (default).  Also doable in /webpref dialog.
'/webpref' - Brings up a dialog showing you the current channel's preference, your preference (if any), and lets you pick your preference or remove it (meaning you don't care one way or the other and you'll leave it up to the channel to decide).
'/web 123' - where '123' is a message number.  If that message is yours then flags it as web-visible.
'/noweb 123' - If that message is yours (or you are a moderator) then flags that message as NOT web-visible.
'/web (message)' - posts the message to the channel and makes that message web-visible (regardless of your preference).
'/noweb (message)' - posts the message to the channel and makes that message NOT web-visible (regardless of your preference).
Note: you can combine the commands /new with /web or /noweb by using: /newweb, /webnew, /newnoweb, and /nowebnew

Okay the last thing to mention is that the web page itself is not updated in real-time, it only happens once every two hours.  Remember the point of the page is to catch the eye of potential new users via web spiders not to be something we activly use in place of logging in and engaging.  
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