I HATE the little popup that just appeared on all Guildportal sites on the bottom right hand corner of the screen.  Please shut it off immediately or allow me, as admin, to turn it off by default.

1. It's distracting.
2. Why bother to create a nice look to my site when this ugly little bar ruins it.
3. No one will use chat.  It's not a needed feature.  That's what we have the games for.  We can chat IN the MMO's.  If they DID want to chat, why would they do so in Purple Dragon, a chat room that has nothing to do with our guild or game?
4. Why is the bar showing people not in our Guild.  Who cares?  Guildportal has thousands of members.

Gee, is that font annoying?  Kind of like the bar!

And, ugh!  Why are we now being notified when anyone who is a member of Guildportal logs in?

This stinks. 

I cannot stand this bar. 

On a mobile window it is a cat and mouse game to get to the hyperlink underneath.

I try hard to keep the clutter on the site to a minimum and STILL features I do not want or ask are implemented such as this or the ability to mark up/down forum posts.  I want control over the appearance of the site and if a feature is developed, there needs to be a way to remove it.

Our guild will never use this chat feature, this is what the game is for or Ventrillo.
     
I am looking for a way to disable this thing.

Right on, look forward to customization options - thanks.

Thank you for the quick response Aaron, but...  My website is mine, I pay for it.  Please give me, the admin, the ability to block this bar from my site.  Your solution is to leave it up to the individual members but it's my site that is being "uglyfied". 

At some point, I may want the bar back, IF and only if you give us enough customization options.  Until then, I do not want it showing on my website.

Since I'm paying the bills, please sell the bar to me, not my non-paying site members.  For me to include it, I need complete control over where on the screen it appears, how large or small it is, what it looks like and what features appear on it.  I also don't like the way it is not guild-specific.  Trust me when I say that the average member doesn't know Guildportal half as well as I do, so I want to limit their options.  When they are on my site, I want our chat to be the only one available (not Purple Dragon).

I also want the people online to show only those in my guild, even if they are a member of other guilds.  This has always been a problem with GuildPortal, BTW.  Even though we have a custom subdomain, there is some confusion with members who belong to other guilds.  For instance, when I check my admin panel to see when someone last logged in, in an effort to see when they visited our site, the date is often incorrect.  What I see is the date they last logged into their account, anywhere on GuildPortal.

Please understand that I love GuildPortal and have been a paying member for most of the last 8 years.  I believe I can provide my members a good experience here.  I'm not, however, bringing them here to be a part of some larger community.  If they want to chat with another guild they are a member of, make them go to that site.  If I check to see when they last logged in, I want to know when they logged into our site, not Mottie's (for example).  If I want to see who's online, I want it to be members of the guild page I'm on, not some other guild I'm a member of.

So, please give back some control to me.  I'm the paying customer here.

From what I can tell looking at the coding of the little doodad at the bottom, you "should" already be able to CSS the thing to invisible if it really bothers you that much, however I find it hard to understand why you would care if the rest of your guild members see it. I think it being a personal option to turn on and off is great.

Personally, I'd like to see the opacity dropped to about 30% and have it bump up to 100% on hover.