The new notifications really don't look very good. They're too over-done, and are not very congruous with the rest of the chat system.

Please change them back to the way they were before, or at least provide a toggle so that we can use the old versions if we want to. If there's a way to change it back with config.ini, the exact syntax would be appreciated as well. Here are examples:

-Channel Changes-
Old: [Sun Jun 3 21:29:29 2007] Channel 100 is active.
New: [Sun Jul 15 21:22:49 2007] [100] *** Channel 100 is active.

-Buddies Online-
Old: [Sun Jun 3 21:29:29 2007] Buddies currently online: IRC, Surbius Bondevo, #sigma
New: [Sun Jul 15 21:22:50 2007] *** Buddies currently online: IRC, Mecha Touriuas, Spellcast, #sigma, momerath42

-Buddy Logon/off-
Old: [Sun Jun 3 21:35:05 2007] Your buddy Mecha Touriuas logged on.
New: [Sun Jul 15 21:24:14 2007] *** Your buddy momerath42 logged off.

-/guild list-
Old:
[Sat Apr 7 03:08:09 2007] Guild MOTD: <actual MOTD snipped>
Guild members currently online:
[Sat Apr 7 03:08:09 2007] (Council & Lieutenant) Daggoth Korronoth, #sigma, (Commander) Miharu,
[Sat Apr 7 03:08:09 2007] Chello-Ro Koshalis, (Council & Lieutenant) Solra Bizna

New:
[Wed Jul 18 12:37:08 2007] *** Guild MOTD: <actual MOTD snipped>
Guild members currently online:
[Wed Jul 18 12:37:08 2007] *** #sigma, (Council & Lieutenant) Hank Starblazer, (Commander) Miharu

Copy this into config.ini: http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/16973
and remove the ***s.
EDIT: don't know about the extra [<channelid>] things though, I don't have those...

The stuff from that thread was already in my config.ini.

Removing the ***s would be only half-effective because for the channel activation message, there's no [<channelid>] in the appropriate line to remove. Also, the /guild list output does not have a setting in the config.ini area. Note that the MOTD message when you log in is *different* from the one you get from typing /guild list.

server=*** <msg> changes /guild list.

[chatformat]
server=<msg>
msgincoming=*<cname>* <msg>
msgoutgoing=-><name>: <msg>
serverchannel=<msg>
serverchannelactive=<msg>
channelemote=[<channelid>] <cname> <msg>
channel=[<channelid>] <<cname>> <msg>
activechannelemote=[<channelid>] <cname> <msg>
activechannel=[<channelid>] <<cname>> <msg>
sectoremote=<cname> <msg>
sector=<<cname>> <msg>
globalserver=*** <msg>
nation=<msg>
guildserver=(guild) <msg>
guildemote=(guild) [<location>] <cname> <msg>
guild=(guild) [<location>] <<cname>> <msg>
guildmotd=[Guild MOTD] <msg>
guide=*<name>* <msg>
group=(group) [<location>] <<cname>> <msg>
help=[<location>] <<cname>> <msg>
bar=<<cname>> <msg>
bar1=<<cname>> <msg>
bar2=<<cname>> <msg>
bar3=<<cname>> <msg>
baremote=<cname> <msg>
baremote1=<cname> <msg>
baremote2=<
cname> <msg>
baremote3=<cname> <msg>
outgoingbuddynote=-><name>: <msg>

This is my current [chatformat] area. There are no changes to the ingame chat format.

Never mind. Browser contamination.

Moral of the story: don't copy and paste important text from Camino. Ever. Use Safari.