Possibility for active chat on Forums

[Sorryman105]

It was suggested in the forums that we might start up an active chat feature for the forums. I'm not sure if this would actually crash the forums or is even possible but any consideration for it?

[iago]

I have no idea what it is. But if you're talking about something like AOL instant messenger... I would suggest using AOL instant messenger.

[Sorryman105]

I have no idea what it is. But if you're talking about something like AOL instant messenger... I would suggest using AOL instant messenger.

any help with describing it..um I'm sorta a user not a maker...

[Helen™]

any help with describing it..um I'm sorta a user not a maker...

I'm not entirely sure, either, but I imagine what they have in mind is kind of like IM, but through the site.  Many businesses will block IM, but not the website, so people were talking about a kind of real time chat feature hosted by you.  I'm not a programmer, so I'm not sure how you'd even do it, but personally don't see how it would be feasible.  Y'all have enough going on.

[Janathian]

Are we talking like, a javascript chat room? Dunno if that would be easy to implement or not.

[Soulless Mystic5523]

What was talked about is like the new chat feature on Facebook.

[Sorryman105]

Are we talking like, a javascript chat room? Dunno if that would be easy to implement or not.

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What was talked about is like the new chat feature on Facebook.

This

[iago]

If someone can find a free, not-hosted-on-this-site chat service that does these things, I'll happily *link* to it from here, but I think that's about as far as we can go with our current server solution.

[Janathian]

If someone can find a free, not-hosted-on-this-site chat service that does these things, I'll happily *link* to it from here, but I think that's about as far as we can go with our current server solution.

Looking into it, I'll get back to you. a quick google search turned this up: http://www.freejavachat.com/

[Syntopicon]

I gotta vote for some sort of IRC client, register a room on some other server and let them deal with the traffic 

[iago]

I gotta vote for some sort of IRC client, register a room on some other server and let them deal with the traffic 

Bingo.

[Janathian]

I created and uploaded this to my webspace, it's Java based IRC, all my website does is hold the code which runs off freejavachat.com's servers. It's the closest thing to free IRC I can find, and doesn't require you to download a IRC client, just to be able to open this webpage and have Java Running.

Give it a shot, if it works and you like it, bookmark it.

http://webpages.charter.net/shattered/jimbutcheronline.html

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

That doesn't look right, John. For one thing, there's no place to register. Take a look.

[Janathian]

That doesn't look right, John. For one thing, there's no place to register. Take a look.

You should not need to register. Just type the nickname you want in the box and press connect. That's all i did and it took me right into the room. If it gives you an error about not being registered or something, let me know.

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

Nope, it works after all. The registering thing threw me. There's no place to register.

But I'm in now. Coolage!