Facebook style chat

[dvsDave]

Originally Posted by Trek

I just purchased this and the vB integration is minimal at best. There's no way to set what usergroups can use it, no profile settings for members to set if they want to display it or not, etc.

There's also no adminCP integration at all.

Granted most of this can be code custom (which I'll do this weekend) but it's pretty thin as far as integration goes.

While while it DOES work and still is pretty cool, make sure you do more research than I did before spending the cash on it.

Yeah, the integration is miminal, but the "coding" to limit what usergroups can use it is easy. It works great for me and the author is responsive to help requests.

[Trek]

Originally Posted by dvsDave

Yeah, the integration is miminal, but the "coding" to limit what usergroups can use it is easy. It works great for me and the author is responsive to help requests.

Yeah, I added that in just now. Basically limiting to specific usergroups and also allowing members to turn it on/off.

Were you able to get a full list of online users though? It only lists friends by default and I'd rather it listed all online users instead. I've asked in their support forums, but if you've already done it, that'd help speed things up as the mod is really only useful to me if it shows online users.

Ideally I'd like to see it display online friends at the top of the list, then the rest of the online users under it. I'm not that good with SQL and/or vB4's user tables though.

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Nevermind, I found a post on their forums with the code I needed, thanks!

[DieselMinded]

been working on this cometchat for the past week and decided to drop it like it was hot!!

i want a refund , this software is not as advertised , games only work half ass , the bar reloads on every page load , it slows my site down big time ! the online list has no relevance at all to who really is online , i have 20 hrs into integrating this to my site and now im taking it off because support here sucks and the forums are worst, not to mention the software is over priced and full of ads that prevent it from working.

i was told there is a money back guarantee , well im taking it off my site and i would like a refund

now i need an alternative ?

[Trek]

Originally Posted by DieselMinded

been working on this cometchat for the past week and decided to drop it like it was hot!!



now i need an alternative ?

The who's online has different queries on their forums for different software to get what you want (I cut and pasted one for vB4 to get all of my users, not just friends to be listed).

There are no Ads (other than a link back to comet chat).

If it took someone 20 hours to only get it screwed up, they... It took me about an hour to get it working and integrated the way I wanted it. Including the time searching their forums for the answer I needed.

Anyway, you can take that quote as gospel, or not. Entirely up to you. =) Hope you find what you're looking for.

[Konstantinos]

cometchat offers a service called comet service (or something) which (as they claim) they take all the server load on their server ..

[winlux]

I guess i could make a mod which is an almost exact replica to facebooks with different skins... let me get back to you guys on this one.

[customcolor]

if you could get ajaxim to log in using vb user library than i want it...i put it up but could not figure out how to make it read from vb user data base ..."log in to vb and it logs you into ajaxim also"

by the way ajaxim is free.

im following this one!!

[andrew.lee]

Hey Guys -
I just put out a plugin that adds chat that looks a lot like facebook's. It's a toolbar. It maintains state when you go from page-to-page (so you can browse while chatting). It lets you have multiple chats, both group and 1 on 1, it does some fancy stuff like real-time-translation. It can do single-sign-on with vBulletin and/or it can do login with Facebook / Twitter (so that your "visitors" can participate in chats too).

It's HOSTED too, so it won't affect load on your server at all, and it won't slow down when you've got 200 users pounding on it. We've worked very hard to make it fast, fast, fast!

The mod is here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=255443

You can see it working here: (it's the toolbar along the bottom)
http://www.envolve.com/

[Schoelle]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

We have released an extremely server friendly, realtime(responses under a second).

What can it do better than CometChat or ArrowChat? From the demo i've seen it has the ability to setup usergroups like 'staff'. But what else since it seems that you want to charge a lot more than they do in the future?

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by Schoelle

What can it do better than CometChat or ArrowChat? From the demo i've seen it has the ability to setup usergroups like 'staff'. But what else

They have just released the first version of new software. Like Arrowchat, their functionality is expanding.
You can request functionality here:
http://community.idealwebtech.com/fo...at-discussion/

Originally Posted by Schoelle

it seems that you want to charge a lot more than they do in the future?

???

Arrowchat is $45 to $295
Cometchat is $49 to $499
123flashchat is $199 - $7500
AVChat is $95 - $1300
Pro Chat is $55 to $355

Full overview of chat solutions with facebook style chat here:
http://www.vb-commercial.com/index.p...laycat&catid=9