How do I create my own entrance to SOI?Password Information.
What is the syntax for a link?
What is the syntax for a form entrance?
How do I set the password on my account?Nickname/Primary Name Information.
When am I prompted for my password?
How does security work here at SOI?
How do I add and delete my nicknames?Creating A Home Page.
How can I change my primary handle?
How do I color my names?
How do I create a Home Page on SOI?Room Create/Deletion Information.
How much web Space do I get?
How do I set up a counter?
What is HTML?
Do you have any HTML instructional Links?
How do I create and delete rooms?Handy Substitution Sequences
How do I change the room name?
What is the "Room Server"?
What is the difference between free, public, and private rooms?
Can I change the information associated with a room?
What is the 'Room Category'?
How do I decorate my rooms?
How do I get image files to your site?
How do I 'drop a link' to another SOI room while in SOI?
How do I roll dice or produce random numbers?
How do I use Tarot Cards?Inviting People to Private Rooms
How do I invite people to private rooms without using passwords?
Authentication is done through cookies we exchange with your browser. You can read details about it here: https://soi.hyperchat.com/chat/perm/newsecure.htm.
Note: Nickname changes may take up to 48 hours to propogate to all services and servers.
If you are not sure what colors are available, or how to make them, here is a Color Chart supplied by SSR.
If you want to create a room, put a 'room id' in the box and hit the button. A 'Room Id' is a 2-8 character name that will be what people put in the FIND box to get to your room.
Among the things you can change, include the room title, room format, and room access. You can also specify background and text color, as well as supply additional text and/or images for backgrounds and icons.
Note: Free and Public rooms Echo to SeeAll.. Private Rooms do not.... You have no control over whether or not a room echos to SeeAll..other than selecting the type of room...
The anonymous FTP access is the original style of uploading files. It is a little complicated to use the first time, but, after the first time it gets easier. If you would like to upload your files with this method, click here.
The account based FTP is simplier to use and provides direct access to your FTP area. This method is still under development and may not be available at the moment. To find out if this is available, and for the instructions, click here.
With a citizenship at SOI, you get 4 Megabytes of served disk space and a maximum transfer rate to the net of 25 Megabytes/day.
Please read our conditions of use for a description of proper usage of SOI http served space.
If you know how to write in HTML, you can create your own home page. (You can get help with HTML here or here or here)
If you want to add a counter to your home page... go here.
For each of your nicknames.. you get a directory.. and if there is a file in that directory called 'homepage.html'... that is your homepage.
You can create a home page simply by clicking on [controls]..then [nickname controls].. then clicking on the nickname and pressing the EDIT HOME PAGE button. If you use the SOI editor to create your homepage..the page must be less than 20,000 characters in size.
You can also create a home page on your computer (under the filename homepage.html) and then when you have created your page, you can copy the files to SOI using "FTP", which stands for File Transfer Protocol. There are two FTP Methods avilable for your use. The first is provided through "anonymous" FTP access and the second is provided through account based FTP access.
The anonymous FTP access is the original style of uploading files. It is a little complicated to use the first time, but, after the first time it gets easier. If you would like to upload your files with this method, click here.
The account based FTP is simplier to use and provides direct access to your FTP area. This method is still under development and may not be available at the moment. To find out if this is available, and for the instructions, click here.
If you want info on posting sounds files from web pages.. click here
We provide the ability for you to drop a link to another SOI room with a handy short-cut sequence.
Simply type the sequence #r- followed by the room ID, for example, #r-e1, and the e1 will automatically be changed to a link.
You can use this technique when you are chatting, or, when configuring text for display to the left or under the chat box in a room of your own.
If you would prefer to specify the text that is displayed.. rather than just having the room ID displayed.. you can use the syntax:
#r-roomid(text)
If you do this.. then.. a link will appear in which the "Text" is clickable.
If the room is a private room (which normally requires a password to enter), you can attach the codeword to the link so that anyone clicking on the link will be able to enter without needing the password. For example:
#r-roomid,codeword
Where:
If you wish to display an image rather than a plain text link, you can use the following syntax:
#r-roomid(<img src=https://whatever/ alt="text">)or
#r-roomid(<img src=https://whatever/ alt="text">),codeword
There cannot be any extra characters in this command sequence. That includes no extra spaces. Any of the IMG HTML modifiers will also work. The ALT HTML modifier is a good one to include in the IMG statement. If someone is running with images turned off, then, this text is displayed in place of the blank image icon, which, allows the viewer to still understand the purpose of the link.
For more information on this, click here.
#i-NEWGUID will give you a (mostly) unqiue string, such as 'ci74bf4f3a49e162174da448625225'.
We provide the ability for you to roll dice in a chat room, as well as generate a random number.
This table summarizes this feature:
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This command rolls XX dice with YY sides. If you specify 't', there is a total displayed. For example, #r5d8t
rolls 5 D8s and totals them up.
This only works with D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, and D20 dice. |
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This command rolls a 4 sided die (1-4). | ||
This command rolls a 6 sided die (1-6). | ||
This command rolls a 8 sided die (1-8). | ||
This command rolls a 10 sided die (0-9). | ||
This command rolls a 12 sided die (1-12). | ||
This command rolls a 20 sided die (1-20). | ||
This command produces a random number between 1 and the number provided, inclusive. For example, #rd22 will produce a number between 1 and 22, inclusive. |
If you would like to have a new specific-sided die available, with a specific set of images to display the result, just send a note to seph. If you can provide the images, we can make that happen.
We provide the ability for you to use standard playing cards and tarot cards in room postings. There is one deck of playing cards per room, and one deck of tarot cards per room. They are separate decks and operate independently of each other. They need to be 'shuffled' before they can be played. If a deck runs out of cards, it needs to be shuffled again. The decks can be shuffled anytime, without playing all of the cards.
All the cards are dealt face up.
This table summarizes the commands for this feature. You simply type the commands into the chat box and press talk/listen.
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This command shuffles the tarot deck. There is one tarot deck per room. Example: #tc-s |
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This command shuffles the tarot deck and draws xx cards. The value of 'xx' can be from 1 to 10. Since this command also shuffles the deck, there are always enough cards to draw. Example: #tc-s1 |
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This command will draw xx tarot cards from a previously shuffled tarot deck. The value of 'xx' can be from 1 to 10. If there are not enough cards left in the deck, the missing cards will be displayed as 'End Of Deck'. Example: #tc-2 |
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This command shuffles the playing card deck. There is one playing card deck per room. Example: #pc-s |
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This command shuffles the playing card deck and draws xx cards. The value of 'xx' can be from 1 to 10. Since this command also shuffles the deck, there are always enough cards to draw. Example: #pc-s1 |
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This command will draw xx playing cards from a previously shuffled deck. The value of 'xx' can be from 1 to 10. If there are not enough cards left in the deck, the missing cards will be displayed as 'End Of Deck'. Example: #pc-2 |
The default tarot deck is the Rider-Waite deck. If you would like to have a custom deck, send a note to seph. If you can provide public domain images, we can make that happen.
The default playing card deck is the standard english deck. If you would like to have a custom deck, send a note to seph. If you can provide public domain images, we can make that happen.