The userguide-chatcode article instructs how to send private messages to the website 'bot'.

I've tried this on my site to see what it did, but it actually refuses to send the PT (most likely because 'bot' isn't a registered user).

Is this old tech or am I just using the website bot wrong, and if it still works, what's it do??

Hi Joe!

Testing this on my test installation and it seems to work OK. I've never actually used the chat before so the setup is virgin as it were though I'm not 100% sure what to expect. I'm running 10.0.22 with an unmodified theme (just seed colour changed).

Are there any steps you'd like me to recreate to see what happens at this end?

I must admit I'm a bit confused….you're initiating the conversation with the bot via the Chat Lobby?

The tutorial shows initiating it with the use of a Comcode tag. I imagine via a page, private message, or forum post?

When I placed this tag on a Comcode page, it showed the tag as text and didn't seem to do anything.

Then I tried sending an actual private topic to 'bot' but Composr did not allow this.

Perhaps not as clear as I thought, but chatcode is for the chatrooms only.

Clarifying:
https://github.com/ocproducts/composr/commit/31d1bd93849061c8eb6a5083f3547e2846158993

Chris Graham said

Perhaps not as clear as I thought, but chatcode is for the chatrooms only.

Clarifying:
https://github.com/ocproducts/composr/commit/31d1bd93849061c8eb6a5083f3547e2846158993

From “Post #5503”, 26th Aug 2019

Ahh, yeah I didn't get that out of the tutorial