Version: 3.4.0, by VBDev
Developer Last Online: Dec 2021
Category: Chat Modifications -
Version: 4.2.x
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Released: 01-27-2008
Last Update: 09-01-2013
Installs: 2476
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Additional Files Translations
No support by the author.
This mod is automatically compatible with vB3.6.x, vB3.7.x, vB3.8.x and vB4.x.x
Overview
MGC Chatbox Evo is the most ever installed chatbox for vBulletin !
It offers a new enhanced online experience to your members leading to increased time spent online of more than 25% by providing them with a new, more interactive, way to interact with each other.
Important number of features
High level of configurability to fit each users needs
Channels system
Many commands
Bot system
and more...
... makes MGC Chatbox Evo a must have for your forum !
Detailed features
Following is a non-exhaustive list:
Simple install
Ajax based with:
Fast and Intelligent chats retrieval through javascript calls to server files (refresh delay configurable per usergroup)
Edit/update by double-clicking on a chat
Interact on chats through menus and javascript
Many usergroup permissions to limit features according to usergroups
Full configuration of the chatbox display:
Size, position on forum pages, editor layout (either top/bottom input or left/right textarea) and position, number of chats displayed, ...
Full configuration of the chats display:
Authorized bbcodes selection, date/time options, avatar display, ...
Possibility to create channels (unlimited number) with multiple configuration options:
Warn user of new message when not active through blinking image and eventually sound notification
Possibility to select on which specific page each is displayed
Option to display the channel only for selected languages
Usergroup/User permissions to access the channel
Many commands available with usergroup/user permissions to access them:
/me: well known IRC command
/del: remove shouts (different possibilities of removal)
/ignore: ignore shouts from another user
/ban: ban user from chatbox
/pm: send a private chat to another user
/announcement: modify the announcement on top of the chatbox
/slap: allow user to slap another user
/team: chats sending between specified usergroups
/l33t: I33t-ify a message
/banchan: ban user from specific channel [PRO only]
Forum activity notifications system in the chatbox:
Different display options:
In the chatbox melted with chats
In the chatbox in a separate column
In the vB4 sidebar or a custom sidebar for vB3
Multiple notifications:
New thread creation
New post creation
Post thanked (Abe's)
New registrations (not included - separate product)
IBProarcade highscore (not included - separate product)
Bot system with set of predefined trigger chat and corresponding answers and automatic bot chats [PRO only]
Archive system with statistics as well as download and search capabilities
Possibility to display the list of users online in the chatbox
Force anynomous to enter a username before chatting if they can access the chatbox
Antiflood system
Private chats feature through PM in tabs
Optional sound notifications
Inactive mode feature for server load optimization
That's generally either lag with the Yahoo yui, or the server itself. I have about 6,000+ lines go through a day on a SLOW day and I have yet to hear anyone complain.
I need help uploading MGCChatboxEvo. If anyone has experience or knows how to install, please please contact me by PM or email me at urbanhamster123@gmail.com
I need help uploading MGCChatboxEvo. If anyone has experience or knows how to install, please please contact me by PM or email me at urbanhamster123@gmail.com
PLEASE!
Just follow the install instructions they are detailed and simple.
i would really like to see a mobile device interface for this (iPhone, BBerry, etc.)
Those devices need to handle ajax and java. If they do, then they should be able to no problem. But we all know HTC phones can do this. Iphones suck.
Gmerin, once the 4.0 version is released and if you still have issues viewing from a phone, post that in the new thread we create and we can see about troubleshooting it.
There is no further development of this product in the 3.x category.
Those devices need to handle ajax and java. If they do, then they should be able to no problem. But we all know HTC phones can do this. Iphones suck.
Gmerin, once the 4.0 version is released and if you still have issues viewing from a phone, post that in the new thread we create and we can see about troubleshooting it.
There is no further development of this product in the 3.x category.
I would hope they decide to support more mobile platforms than just HTC, especially since WM was 4th behind Symbian, Blackberry, and iPhone in global market share in 2009 (iphone has since overtaken Nokia/Symbian, and Android just managed to beat Palm for 5th place.)
BTW, where is the java code in Evo? its all php and ajax, and ajax is javascript, which is infinitely different from java. iPhones support javascript, ajax and php/dhtml fine.
there is a difference between handing something, and doing it well. i can read the chatbox on iphones now; i'm just not satisfied with the quality of the user interaction when I compare it with the user experience offered by mods like Tapatalk which is why i would like to see a native client offered, or an exposed api and I'll publish my own native application.
Gmerin, you are missing 1 large key point. This is for a computer, not for a phone. The support base lies there.
The only key point is the market because that's where the money is: if you don't want to support the largest target market because of a pseudo ideological bias (claiming machines that run unix, - apples including iPhones, run unix, are not computers), someone else will. And since I run paid licenses for all my software (including Evo) on all my boards that's where our money will go.
Also you're making a distinction where none exists: what is a phone and what is a computer? The distinction between the two is so old-fashioned, so 1980s, that it no longer exists. Back on the early 1980s an Apple II was just about your only choice for a PC. Now the Apple II CPU runs home light switches. Is it no longer a computer? The distinction is unreal and moot.
I asked for iPhone support; if you doesn't want to support it then I'll simply pay someone else to. Philosphy doesn't matter.
Just follow the install instructions they are detailed and simple.
I followed the instructions and got an error, and I had to disable the mod. Can someone please give me easier instructions that I can work with? Please.
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01-29-2010, 07:10 PM
Iphones suck.
