Integrated CHAT and INSTANT MESSASING

[Grover]

Hi,

The visitors of our website would VERY much like to see a chat-functionality on our website. Sorry for being a bit impatient...but I thought I'd start a poll to see how many people are waiting for this in a future version also.

I think there is a very high demand for the following 2 chat-functions:


1. Integrated CHAT.
- A CHAT is a room where you forum-members can logon to, so they can chat with all the other forum-members who are in the chat at that moment. The CHAT function HAS to have the ability to choose a chat-room/channel. For example....we run a website for people who suffer from a hairdisease like alopecia, chemo, trichotillomania, etc. We would like to have a chatfunction where you could choose a room/channel like 'alopecia' or 'chemo', so you can talk to people who suffer from the same disease.

2. Integrated INSTANT MESSAGING.
- Not everyone uses MSNM or ICQ, not everyone wishes to give away their MSNM or ICQ profile to our members, because privacy/anonymousity is VERY important to our members. We just NEED an integrated one in VBulletin! How many times have I wished that I could instantly contact a member of our forum, when I saw that he/she was online on our VBulletin-board! Many, many, many times!

We are dying for those 2 things in Vbulletin! We can't be the only one?

Grover.

--> PS: with an integrated chat I mean a chat where ONLY forum-members have access. I do NOT specifically mean that it has to be integrated TIGHT with VBulletin! I hope it can be provided as an add-on module (where people have to pay separately for, for instance).

Please see the official www.vbulletin.com forum:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=35631 for the poll there. Vote there as well! (yes, I AM desperate.....that's right! )