Digichat owners and testimonials

[OrangeFlea]

I'm in the process of getting Digichat, and wanted to ask owners and subscribers of this chat program if it's good software. Specifically, I wanted to know if it's capable of showing "Who's Chatting" on the Forum Home template (main forum page), without having members dig through menus (Sigmachat).

I've been using Sigmachat for a while, and they told me that as of now, the "Who's Chatting" function doesn't work in the capacity that I've described. I've been waiting weeks and months for them to fix this issue, but they're still working on it, and I need to get this thing up and running pronto.

I'm seriously considering switching over to Digichat, but I wanted to get first-hand testimonials first from the people here. Will it solve my problems; is the program that flexible?

Also, if any Digichat owner has screenshots of this program working in conjunction with the "Who's Chatting" feature in the way I've described above, I very much would like to see them.

Thank you!

[x3n0]

I've never used the server side of Digichat but I can testify as to the client side experience because a board I frequent uses this paid service.

The Java applet that the client downloads is very very buggy. If the client is using certain Microsoft Java Virtual Machine releases the applet will crash. The most recent Sun JVM seems to work. I've never seen the applet work on a Macintosh. I haven't had any success getting it to work on Linux either.

The Digichat client is only stable on a Windoze x86 machine with the Sun JVM installed. The applet is somewhat slow to download and initialize.

User settings in the chat cannot be saved when merged with vB.

The amount of custom user avatars is limited to the # of simultanious chat users in the license. In other words, you have 500 members on your site, you buy a 20 simultanious user license for digichat, you can only have 20 different custom avatars for chat.