Please ,PLEASE give us a way to TURN OFF CHAT!

[eflyguy]

I agree with that - assuming you use Chrome, which is the recommended browser anyway.

[deirdrebeth]

I’ve got it running in Firefox as well (or ~not~ running as the case may be).

[jamesdhatch]

@deirdrebeth

it’s better to use the method provided in the forum to remove it since I doubt the company is going to remove it any time soon.

Yep. I don’t understand people who are still railing against it & bemoaning the lack of a fast fix. Just implement the browser change and move on.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Old Chinese Proverb

[wesleyjames]

@jamesdhatch

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Old Chinese Proverb

Feels like this is more, cut a hole in the blindfold instead of complaining they forced a blindfold on you.

[rbtdanforth]

@emilyhuh

Awesome suggestion about the ability to reconfigure your Dashboard

Check out how that works in Blender and did from the first

Imagine being able to spread the Glowforge App over three different screens each focusing on different aspects in separate windows based on your particular preference?

[emilyhuh]

@rbtdanforth

Imagine being able to spread the Glowforge App over three different screens each focusing on different aspects in separate windows based on your particular preference?

Ooh… great idea.

[rdyoungster]

Just chiming in to add another voice to this. Would really love the option for this chat to not be there.

[deirdrebeth]

In case you haven’t seen the links posted elsewhere - here’s how you can turn it off permanently:

Chat Forum on the app

I think that’s an unnecessary jab. Here’s the CSS to add to StyleBot to hide it: .scroll-box-content :has(iframe[title~="Discord"]) { display: none; } I also made a video walkthrough. This is something that actually only takes minutes. [Blocking Glowforge Chat with StyleBot] For everyone who has already started responding “But I shouldn’t have to block it!”, you’re right. But do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? This is something you can do today, right now, w…

[rdyoungster]

Thank you–When I get some time, I’ll take a look.

[emilyhuh]

@rdyoungster

Just chiming in to add another voice to this. Would really love the option for this chat to not be there.

Thank you for sending in your feedback. Your voice has been heard and your input has been passed along to the team!

[ev1]

Another vote to provide a way to hide it. It’s so distracting and makes it hard to see the time remaining.

[deirdrebeth]

Have you used the info provided above to permanently hide it?

[missmeeks77]

I like being able to see the counter when I’m working, and using the hide button gets rid of the that box and the counter. Why? I don’t want that. Just let us close the chat box, specifically. We’ve all spent way too much to not have such a basic feature available to us when using our machines.

[deirdrebeth]

Welcome to the community, lucky for you there is a solution posted above:

Please ,PLEASE give us a way to TURN OFF CHAT!

In case you haven’t seen the links posted elsewhere - here’s how you can turn it off permanently:

[emilyhuh]

@missmeeks77

I like being able to see the counter when I’m working, and using the hide button gets rid of the that box and the counter. Why? I don’t want that. Just let us close the chat box, specifically. We’ve all spent way too much to not have such a basic feature available to us when using our machines.

I understand your frustration and I have been passing along all of everyone’s feedback to the team, so thank you for your thoughts. We do hope that you will join the community at some point in the future!

[j113]

Delete this idiotic chat function.

[shollg]

I fully agree with you, but assuming that user desires continue to be ignored, if you apply the fix mentioned in an earlier post in this thread, the problem will go away. Not the optimum solution, but it does work (at least until GF changes their software).

[deirdrebeth]

Welcome to the forum. Lots of people seem to very much like the chat (as you can see by how busy it is), so it’s unlikely to be going anywhere. Instead of jumping in with a gripe, try being proactive!

There’s so much to learn here in the forum. I hope you stick around and take advantage of the best add-on this company provides