@Ranger187, yes I did. The whole file ++++ed up my entire forums...

I highly doubt that...

Instructions state, as with all plugins, you backup your forums. So simply revert it if you had issues...

If you're on VB5, it won't work.

Failed to open won't F your forums up. Did you bother trying to reinstall it over top of itself?

Great mod! But the icon doesn't change to mgc_cb_gen_channel_new.gif. I've created another channel but only mgc_cb_gen_channel_nosel and mgc_cb_gen_channel_sel are displayed.

Don't they change automatically or do i have to use specific settings?

The channels icon only shows if you have channels enabled and have more than the default one displayed. Meaning default and <channel 2>.

If at that point you don't have a channels icon showing, make sure you copied it from the channels folder in the /images folder to the correct theme you have/are using.

_nosel (http://puu.sh/48Ljn.png) and _sel (http://puu.sh/48LjH.png) are working but the _new icon doesn't. Actually, if there is a new chat in the channel there should be _new displayed, or not?

YOU have to make the icons though. He only provides the standard one.

So you'd need 3

No selection
Selected
New (and animate that one)

If however, the default one isn't showing the (new) part and flashing, then something is wrong. I've not messed with the channels in a good year so make sure there's not an option to enable/disable it that's not ticked.

So my forum got put on a temporary hold on hostgator because of too much cpu usage. It was mainly due to the Ajax refreshing. I noticed it got bad when I allowed unregistered users to see the chatbox. We are on a shared server so we can't use that much cpu. I took it off for guests, but I want to have it for them to see because the activity on the chatbox is a real selling point of the site. How can I reduce server and cpu usage while keeping the chats there? Would making it refresh after an extended time like 20 seconds help? Also how can I terminate previous Ajax process cuz the hostgator people say the Ajax processes are stacking on each other which is causing an increase in server load

Hello,

If you let unregistered users see the forum it means search crawlers will see it too that might be the reason. Do you have a huge amount of chats displayed inside the chatbox ?

I don't think it's a question of refresh, rather the fact that you allowed unregistered users.

Killing processes is server side, you should ask the support from hostgator.

Clément

So the pure fact that I'm letting them see the chatbox, and not letting them use it, means that it's going to cause server overload.
I have the default number of chats for both regular mode, large mode, and
full screen mode.

The thing is that I want the unreg users to see, but I want to drastically reduce cpu usage. What would be the best way to reduce server load while letting the unreg users see(not use) the chatbox?

What I mean is that in that case, web crawlers (google, etc...) see the chatbox and they tend to be numerous and visit a lot.

You could first try to reduce the refresh rate for unregistered users that might reduce load a bit (something like 30s) for unregistered would seem fair choice if you only want them to see it.

Clément