Hi,
This has potential good work so far! - but, i see several hurdles before this becomes 1 stop chat feature.
1. The costs, it's very expensive.
2. Hosted, this causes delay - we must compare to facebook as they are leading this field - There you can surf whilst the chat stays in place, with this it goes away, re-appearing only once the webpage has loaded - in some cases i found that when i start typing the title before the chat appears, at which point the chat grabs my curser attention and i type the thread title into the last chat window i had open. Very frustrating this.
3. It appears that a public chat still requires people to be invited? Why is this? Also, if they X the tab, it disappears for a while, a public chat should remain indefinitely in my opinion especially if I have configured it at the back end.
4. allow for far more customisation of colours and css styles, it is important to have it look like the site - im sure others will agree.
5. less is more, there is to much info everywhere, minimise information - allow options to disable the extra info for users (when you hover over name) its very messy and worthless for our site.
Thanks
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