Yeah, the integration is miminal, but the "coding" to limit what usergroups can use it is easy. It works great for me and the author is responsive to help requests.

Yeah, I added that in just now. Basically limiting to specific usergroups and also allowing members to turn it on/off.

Were you able to get a full list of online users though? It only lists friends by default and I'd rather it listed all online users instead. I've asked in their support forums, but if you've already done it, that'd help speed things up as the mod is really only useful to me if it shows online users.

Ideally I'd like to see it display online friends at the top of the list, then the rest of the online users under it. I'm not that good with SQL and/or vB4's user tables though.

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Nevermind, I found a post on their forums with the code I needed, thanks!

been working on this cometchat for the past week and decided to drop it like it was hot!!

now i need an alternative ?

The who's online has different queries on their forums for different software to get what you want (I cut and pasted one for vB4 to get all of my users, not just friends to be listed).

There are no Ads (other than a link back to comet chat).

If it took someone 20 hours to only get it screwed up, they... It took me about an hour to get it working and integrated the way I wanted it. Including the time searching their forums for the answer I needed.

Anyway, you can take that quote as gospel, or not. Entirely up to you. =) Hope you find what you're looking for.

cometchat offers a service called comet service (or something) which (as they claim) they take all the server load on their server ..

I guess i could make a mod which is an almost exact replica to facebooks with different skins... let me get back to you guys on this one.

if you could get ajaxim to log in using vb user library than i want it...i put it up but could not figure out how to make it read from vb user data base ..."log in to vb and it logs you into ajaxim also"

by the way ajaxim is free.

im following this one!!

Hey Guys -
I just put out a plugin that adds chat that looks a lot like facebook's. It's a toolbar. It maintains state when you go from page-to-page (so you can browse while chatting). It lets you have multiple chats, both group and 1 on 1, it does some fancy stuff like real-time-translation. It can do single-sign-on with vBulletin and/or it can do login with Facebook / Twitter (so that your "visitors" can participate in chats too).

It's HOSTED too, so it won't affect load on your server at all, and it won't slow down when you've got 200 users pounding on it. We've worked very hard to make it fast, fast, fast!

The mod is here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=255443

You can see it working here: (it's the toolbar along the bottom)
http://www.envolve.com/

What can it do better than CometChat or ArrowChat? From the demo i've seen it has the ability to setup usergroups like 'staff'. But what else since it seems that you want to charge a lot more than they do in the future?

They have just released the first version of new software. Like Arrowchat, their functionality is expanding.
You can request functionality here:
http://community.idealwebtech.com/fo...at-discussion/

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Arrowchat is $45 to $295
Cometchat is $49 to $499
123flashchat is $199 - $7500
AVChat is $95 - $1300
Pro Chat is $55 to $355

Full overview of chat solutions with facebook style chat here:
http://www.vb-commercial.com/index.p...laycat&catid=9