Doc,

I have a small forum. It doesn't have very many people on it at the same time. People come to my board to engage in serious discussions that last, well sometimes YEARS. When we do see others online, it's nice to just page them and continue chatting with each other. We are all very close and know each other online and offline. However, it's a hassle to go to the flashchat and wait for someone to come and visit us because we could be waiting for hours.

Anyway, my users like chatting with the pager system vs. flashchat. They like one on one conversations, and they like the convenience of not having to open up a Flash based chat window to communicate.

Ok I am at a loss. I have read alomst every post in this thread. I found one regarding my IE crashing problem. I have done all the needed updates. And i even checked windows updates to make sure i am up to date on all updates. I have the latest IE with sp1 and all updates. Yet mmines and everyones IE is crashing as soon as u get a message. I cant even get to my board now cause i have pager messages waiting for me and when i get there it crashes.

Anyone have any ideas?

KB

I do think it would be good to at least add an option (a check box maybe) to quote the page the person is replying to (if it is a reply) so that you can keep up with a conversation. I understand the reasoning behind not keeping the window open and turning it into an "instant messaging" program, but I do believe that an option to quote a page would benefit the users.

:up: I agree

Found a problem in IE. Not a problem in firefox. When I receive pages in IE, the text is centered instead of aligned to the left. I am using default style - unmodified. See attached.

I have the same problem. .

I find it most interesting that people are having problems with this. It worked for me right out of the box, I'm running FF on an iMac and IE on a PC. No issues. Not one of my users (about 2100) has mentioned they have had a crash. I didn't update my IE either.

My users really like this hack. Now it's a bandwidth hog at 15 second intervals but that's it's biggest issue that I've seen.

Please excuse my ignorance here... I am nervous of using any type of chat scripts.

How much of a bandwidth hog are we talking here? In relation to say, showthread.php?

same here....

The IE crash I think is an IE problem. I've been using this successfully with Netscape and or FF, without any problem, and I don't notice it to be having any adverse affects on my bandwith. I've basically told my users to switch to a mozilla based browser; we've been having problems with AJAX as well.

If you really need to stick to IE, you might want to make sure of the folloowing. They've helped a bit with mine:

Make sure that you don't use domain.com in any of your links; use www.domain.com.
Turn AJAX completely off.

It's helped for us, if you really need to stick with IE.