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Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Question.

There are two other major chatbox's here. Both are ajax. Both can be opened to full screen. Both also are extremely bandwidth intensive if used as a regular means to communicate, like during live events.

Firstly, how intensive is this CB? Second, will all user names show up as they join and type their message?

An additional comment....Are you able to create rooms for specific live events? Say I have three games and don't want them all to be involved in the same chat. Can they all have their own room for their specific event?

Thanks

This shoutbox does not use nearly as much bandwidth as other major shoutboxes/chatboxes. They delete every message and download the whole lot every few seconds, whereas this only gets new messages which is much more efficient. Also, this checks for new messages straight after it finishes 'typing out' existing messages, meaning you can set the refresh rate much higher than you would normally and it will still be very fast when there is an active conversation going on.

To better explain the message grabbing system and demonstrate how it's more efficient than grabbing every message every time, let's imagine we have one shout/chatbox running, "Chatbox A", and GSBOS running on the same site. Both have 1 message being sent every two seconds, and both are set to refresh every 5 seconds. Chatbox A will be downloading all of the old messages including the new messages every 5 seconds, not only using lots of bandwidth but also causing unwanted lag. GSBOS will only be downloading the new messages, saving lots of bandwidth and also, assuming the message takes less than two seconds to type out, will have next to no lag at all, and the messages will be adding virtually seamlessly. If we then assume no more messages are being added to either shoutbox, Chatbox A will still be downloading all those messages every 5 seconds, whereas GSBOS will be downloading, well, nothing.

Different rooms/chats are hopefully on their way next version

Originally Posted by soniceffect

You are seriously bloody quick LOL ..... good work m8 ...

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