More Sharing Features

We've enhanced the /share command to use Embedly for generating titles and descriptions of shared links. For example, this means that tweet text is now rendered inline, saving you a click. For YouTube links to get the video description, saving you from possible rickrolls.

Rooms now also have a share bookmarklet, you can find it in the "Helpful links" section of the web interface.

Finally, the share command can also be hooked up to Google Reader's Send to feature. Just go to the settings page and add a custom link with this template:

Stats Update!

It's been a while since we updated you about Partychat's growth, so here are some numbers for those of you playing along at home:

• Over 8,500 people said something in Partychat yesterday
• Over 17,000 people in the last week
• Over 25,000 people in the last 30 days
• There are over 2,800 Partychat channels
• Partychat sent out around 8,000,000 (yup, million) messages yesterday

For the more visually inclined, here's a graph of our growth over the last 8 months or so:

Controlling logging (and FAQs)

To enable commands such as /undo and the search-and-replace feature, Partychat keeps a small log of recent messages said in the room (up to 10 for each member). However, we realize that not everyone wants even this form of limited logging, so we've added a preference on the room's web page (accessible at http://partychapp.appspot.com/room/<room name>) that lets you turn off logging:

You can also enable and disable logging by using the /togglelogging command in the room itself.

We also added an FAQ about what gets logged (not just by Partychat, but by Gmail and your chat client). We didn't actually have an FAQ until now, so we took this opportunity to also write up some of Partychat's more esoteric features, like the PlusPlusBot. If there's anything else that you find confusing about Partychat, feel free to get in touch (how to do that is...wait for it...also in the FAQ).