I've had this installed for a few days now so here are my thoughts.
I have the paid version so can have up to 25 people logged in at a time. For the money is is not enough. I have a fairly small forum but still the chat is full even when no one is actually chatting. Either the number of logged in members needs to be increased (probably doubled to 50) or there needs to be an admin option to have the chat turned off as the default for members so that only members who actually want to chat will turn it on and not fill up the available spaces. Another option would be to allow up to 25 people actually in the chat and chatting not just logged in automatically. Once 25 people are in general chat or private chats it could give a full notice.
I do not want to sound too negative as the the mod itself is very good it is just priced too high. To upgrade another level to get 75 members logged in would be a cost that I could get hosting for and probably more than VBulletin costs me for a year. In fact it is already probably close to that cost and this is for only one or two people to actually be chatting. The chat being full is very misleading as it is only an indication of how busy the forum is with members not how busy the chat is.
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