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Dash
Joined: 03 Jan 2006
Posts: 26
Location: Montreal, Canada
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I prefer IRC to any other alternative, I find that putting a chatroom in a forum is kinda ironic...
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Ex0dus
Joined: 26 Sep 2005
Posts: 235
Location: Zarasu, Lithuania
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| Posted: 1/6/2006, 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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haha, i feel the same way on that. I used to install chatrooms on my forums until i realized they got used maybe 2 times a year. Even then it was nothing important so i decided to quit with the hassle. My forums were better off without it >_<
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Viper
Joined: 09 Feb 2006
Posts: 1
Location: Far, Far Away
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| Posted: 2/9/2006, 6:21 am Post subject: |
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Hi, Guys.
I just join the community.
Here a Chat Mod you may want to look into: ChatSpot , it's a modified Smartor Chatbox.
Features:
Multiple rooms and private messages are supported. Integrated with phpBB and uses phpBB's users table, sessions, smilies, and more. Tested with multiple browsers.
PS: Just my two cents. |
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Truestar
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Joined: 10 Sep 2005
Posts: 747
Location: New York, United States
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| Posted: 2/9/2006, 7:23 am Post subject: |
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I use mIRC. This way, there is a chat room, but it won't interfere with the site. The thing I like about chatrooms is the instant response, so their good for immediate questions, or my latest Truestar Forums craze: trivia. 
You have to be careful with chatrooms. A community I am a part of has two seperate rooms, one of them is clean discussion, the other is dirty. The atmosphere of that room changed the moderators attitude. And it changed it in a negative way. That site that once was golden, has become corrupt in my eyes. And I am wondering if I should move on or not. 
Be careful, don't let your staff become "wiseguys". 
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tD Web
Joined: 02 Nov 2005
Posts: 16
Location: United Kingdom
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| Posted: 2/9/2006, 8:11 am Post subject: |
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Have you tried xs chat? i know it intergrates into phpbb but havent tried it myself yet.
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NamePros
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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| Posted: 3/7/2006, 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| I use RealChat (www.namepros.com) on NamePros.com. The software is quite good and very popular with our users. The downside is that its on the pricey side ($795 for the full version), but it has the features and security I was looking for. It also has no problem accomodating 100+ users at a time on our busy live auction days. |
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Truestar
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Joined: 10 Sep 2005
Posts: 747
Location: New York, United States
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| Posted: 3/7/2006, 7:00 am Post subject: |
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$795!? 
For a chat room? That's ridiculous. It better be good for the price it's at. 
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Smiley
Joined: 13 Nov 2007
Posts: 10
Location: Great Britain
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| Posted: 11/13/2007, 11:34 pm Post subject: Re: Chatrooms |
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One of the hardest decisions to make is to include a chatroom and if so how to incorporate it into phpBB.
Sure we have the chat box mod by smartor which is (unless updated lately) not really an alternative for the serious users of chat.
I have also used an IRC chatroom which was fine for awhile until problems started with the IRC clients servers and in the end I removed it.
I am currently using the free version of SigmaChat which works fine but other than a few minor skin details, I am unable to mod it to include my own banner in place af the SigmaChat banner. I could however buy the pro version and do just that but feel the licence for it is rather over priced so have not gone that way with it.
Also, I cannot link the chatroom users online, to the forum index to show how many users are in chat and this tends to shy people away from chat altogether.
Does anyone use a chatroom on their forum and if so, what do you use and does the number of users show as online on the forum index ??? |
Well, rather than a chat room being an addition to my forum, it's my forum that is actually the addition to my chat client.
My main site is www.friendly-chat.co.uk and the main feature of the site.. is the chat. The forums are just an addition to it.
I don't think chat rooms being an addition to a forum really work, as people who use forums general don't use chat rooms.
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pein87
Joined: 31 Jul 2008
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| Theres a new mod called 123 flash chat.If you go to http://www.123flashchat.com you must download the server(buy it) and then follow the install insrtuctions.Its ok you should use joomla as your CMS so you can link to the flash chat and have better options.CMS is content manager system.It comes with a blog and polls and other stuff.Hope that helps and hers the link to joomla http://www.joomla.com |
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