[VBDev]

Originally Posted by AWJunkies

I created an import script for chat messages from CYB Chatbox to MGC Chatbox. VBDEV contact me for it maybe you want to include it in system as well. I just imported over 440,000 messages Without a hitch. Also Not sure if you thought about this but have a stats table to record stats of user messages so you don't have to keep 2.5 million messages and can prune delete and keep the table to set time 1 month 3 months 6 months 1 year whatever and it will prune away messages but keep stats. Let me know if this makes sense all you need to do is add a field in users table to keep a global count in for messages. Have it update every message post or just have a cron that does it or whatever it is your software. It may already be in software I saw a prune thing but not sure how it works.

We used to do contests and have anti spam built in etc for who was in top10 for chats that month

Also not sure if you have this but CYB chatbox when a user was deleted in vB it would NOT delete their chat box messages. Not sure if yours does or not but please have them linked cause the manual check who I deleted whatever and delete using manual SQL can be a pain but again up to you.

Also would be cool to see a chat post limit per usergroup. Say you want to allow registered users to view it but can only post 5 times after which it either does not allow them to view chatbox all together anymore unless they donate/subscribe and or just lock them out from posting more.

Hell man you're awesome ! Thanks for your contribution !! I will contact you ASAP by PM.

About the stats, yes that's an intersting idea to keep stats in an user table. The problem with statistics is that it's currently dynamic count.
I mean that all users won't see the same number of chats made by a same user if they don't have access to all the commands the user has access to, you see what I mean ?
And updating things in the user table would add an additionnal query which is not a good thing.
Even with a cron I think it wouldn't be such a good idea as it would count shouts that perhaps have been manually removed for out of rules purposes. Don't you think so ? What's your point ?

The chat post limit is a good idea too. What I am wondering is if it would be a 5 times per day or a 5 times ever you are thinking at ?