Version: 3.4.0, by VBDev
Developer Last Online: Dec 2021
Category: Chat Modifications -
Version: 4.2.x
Rating:
Released: 01-27-2008
Last Update: 09-01-2013
Installs: 2476
DB Changes Uses Plugins Template Edits Auto-Templates
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
Do you have so many shouts? I would set the "Number of days before automatic chats removal" to 1. Then you will only have messages from the last day. You probably need to wait one day until the shouts are deleted. The rest can be deleted manually by going into the archive.
The "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" is set to no. I have turned it on, but then the shoutbox will even be empty on iso encoding. Therefore I turned it off again.
With current version you must not activate that option ! It is corrected in next version.
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Originally Posted by rknight111
Is there a way to completely flush all the info out of the shoutbox and start from scratch.
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Originally Posted by jerx
Do you have so many shouts? I would set the "Number of days before automatic chats removal" to 1. Then you will only have messages from the last day. You probably need to wait one day until the shouts are deleted. The rest can be deleted manually by going into the archive.
Yes you can export chats from the archive and remove all chats either in the archives with the tick boxes or using the del command "/del all" (activate it before).
After some thoughts and discussions, I am not sure this is really needed.
What would be the need for such feature as soon as the backward compatibility is in the chatbox ?
I'm looking at it from a backup/restore standpoint. I know a lot of users on here don't backup their database (bad practice but lets not go there) and when they do something without reading and wipe it, restoring that would be nice. Provided they didn't bunk their main db to begin with.
Having it as an option to just export and being able to restore it puts a lot at ease as the main discussions are right in the chat.
chatbox timeout is no longer working after i upgraded to 1.1.0. also some of the new database tables weren't created during the upgrade so I had to do them manually. Is the timeout also related to a missing database table?
Hum you mean the inactive function ? I have tested it recently and it does (on the current up-to-be-released version).
nope, the inactive function doesn't work anymore.... were there any database table changes from 0.4 for this setting specifically?
Having it as an option to just export and being able to restore it puts a lot at ease as the main discussions are right in the chat.
Well - won't you agree that people who don't backup their DB even won't use a backup function, if provided ?
And if they backup their DB, such a backup function isn't needed at all.
I'm looking at it from a backup/restore standpoint. I know a lot of users on here don't backup their database (bad practice but lets not go there) and when they do something without reading and wipe it, restoring that would be nice. Provided they didn't bunk their main db to begin with.
Having it as an option to just export and being able to restore it puts a lot at ease as the main discussions are right in the chat.
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Originally Posted by Angel-Wings
Well - won't you agree that people who don't backup their DB even won't use a backup function, if provided ?
And if they backup their DB, such a backup function isn't needed at all.
Or ?
Yes that's the thing ! I don't see the need in backuping the chat table if users save their database.
I am not supposed to make admin jobs
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Originally Posted by thedark1
nope, the inactive function doesn't work anymore.... were there any database table changes from 0.4 for this setting specifically?
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