Firefox 2.0.

Woot man this is a fantastic shoutbox...i have a large forum with 300 people on and all other shotboxes lagged with such use...not this one and its fantastic on server load. Thanks

Really strange, it should work, I have tested it with firefox 2.0 and there is no problem at all.

Is this just when page loads and people enter chat during the page load that the problem occurs ? What if they wait for the loading end ?

You will be typing, and when the shout box loads the text will freeze up for a second till it's done loading. Sometimes, it works fine without hanging, but sometimes it will. It's not terrible, but it is a bit annoying.

You mean when the shouts have not been retrieved ? During the chatbox first refresh ?

No the shouts retrieve fine. Some of our users will be typing in the box replying in the shout box. While they are in the text box, and I have it set to refresh every 15 seconds, so when it refreshes and they are typing at the same time it will freeze up. Like you will be typing, but no letters are being typed even though I am still typing. This isn't just in the text box, it's also in the quick reply box it slows down when it loads. Also seems to slow down some users cursor in the browser. It's not so bad on mine, but some of my users make it seem like it's pretty bad for them, and it almost sounds intermittently.

If this is the same problem in the quick reply, then it is maybe of problem with your user's computer that may not support ajax or something like that I think.

You have tested it with Firefox 2.0 do you get the same problem ?

Anyways, I am going to give it a try, and see what my users say about it.

I'll give it a try. It was my other admin that was complaining as I enabled it for the admins only, and he was on his old laptop, so that might have had something to do with it. It was happening to me, but I opened my task manager and am seeing something majorly wrong with Firefox as it was using 450MB of RAM. So, I closed and reopened, so we will see what the other users say.

This is a really great product as it stands, and seems to be working flawlessly on others boards.
I do have some suggestions though. ;)

• Idle function - after a set amount of time the user goes idle so the shouts stop refreshing. Then when the user comes back and he sees he's idle (message at the top of the shout box) he can hit a button that says "I'm back." and all will refresh again.
• Users to have the option to disable the shout box all together from their user cp.
• Active Users in The Shoutbox
• Add a PM function (ex. /pm username;message)
• Ignore feature to ignore users (ie. /ignore username then /unignore username to disable the ignore on that user)
• Add an announcement that you can add from the shout box (ex. /announcement messagehere)
• Change descending to ascending mode and editor position from top to bottom.

Would really love to see these features add. Especially the first two.

Thanks and nominated for Mod Of The Month. :up:

Maybe make it where the color you choose will become default untill you switch? that would be killer.

Thanks and nominated for Mod Of The Month.

You can do this in your User CP. But, it could be cookie or database set when you choose it I imagine?