Well, for one reason or another, I decided to give it a try. I installed it last night and it works OK. Some minor issues with IE (it spreads the first lines over the whole table, trying to space them out evenly over the whole height of the table), but these were not significant.
Some of the complaints I've read here, and which I've managed to fix are:
- Show the number of users in chat in FORUMHOME.
- Make the users column, show the right users, not users who are gone, for hours. This requires a "Logout" button of some sort, that the users have to press instead of just closing the browser window, when done (yes, I open a new window for the chat). This removes their session in the chat from the database, so they no longer show up on the list. At the moment, I am trying to figure out how to prevent them from pressing the X at the top right corner, instead of the log out button, that would need some more searching.
- I didn't exactly like the way the members could create new rooms and then leave them there for the admin to erase. That looked stupid to me, so I changed the hack to delete these rooms, when the last member in them logs out.
- with some changes in the cron job, I made the hack erase the posts which are older than a few minutes. I changed the autoprune parameter to specify minutes instead of days, and I have the cron job running every 15 minutes.
- I also didn't like the way the hack acted when you created a new room, or asked to join a room. If you go to the Select a room to join screen and you select a room, you are immediately transfered to that room. If you ask to create a new room, as soon as you create it, you are transfered to the Select a room to join.
If someone is interested in my changes, I could post them here. But do not take it for granted I'll provide support, in place of ZT.
Rgds
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