ok, figured out why chat isnt quite working the way we want it to.

So basically all chats are cached. this was probably a 'reasonable' idea 10 years ago. (even then, not really),

anyway, since the chat was developed to do all the work on the backend, caching makes sense. these days however, we can format the chat client side. that will take some extra work but basically, make the chat very fast, live and well, easy to manage.

I'm just sifting through the spaghetti code to get all the possible chat actions , clean it up, and proceed to build proper api.

then its drag n drop anywhere.

I've returned from some family stuff and some video gaming of my own, and I'll be back on getting things moving again

I'm going to fix chat so it doesnt suck.

its going to be a bit of work. but I should be able to do it such that it behaves as a standalone app that can be dropped into the current design , as a stand alone web app, AND operate on the new site.

I think that along with the paypal fix should shore up the major unfixed problems on alacrity live until the renovated site is good enough to launch.

if you have ideas for other critical fixes, let me know!