Howdy all, I planing to use the shout box on the front page of my site.. currently in development at http://dev.zgeek.com (if you can't see it, its been built into the monitor on the top right)

I usually have around 100 to 150 people on the site, around 60 -70 who are logged in. I've also shortened the max characters people can post in a message to around 30.

I'm worried about this slowing the site. I have my own dedicated server and a large amount of bandwidth so traffic isn't a worry. But is this going to kill my server processing the shouts?

I'd recommend you guys go to vbhackers.com, they have a update of this that is much better as it is much less strain on the server.

Thanks mate. I did so and updated to the latest version. Cheers.

Another solution for the excessive load on the server is to use an "outsourced" shoutbox: Sayit hosts free shoutboxes for you. I have just started using it at one of my forums (non vb) and it has been working very well

hey just a question but will this mod work on 3.6?

I tried to alter my vbShout so that it would show a button/link next to every shout, that would delete the shout when I click it, but I am unsuccesful so far.
My understanding of AJAX is non-existent so I really have no idea how to to this.

Is there anyone who can help me achieve this? I hate going into the archive to delete certain shouts everytime. (it's a slow process for me)

Also, when I try /prune username, it doesn't prune anything, I can't figure out why.

Edit:

I love finding out how to do things myself ;)

Does this work on 3.6 ?

Zero... are you going to make a vbchat for 3.6 ?

I've had no problems with it since upgrading to 3.6, give it a try ;)

It works fine on my 3.6 site