One of the features that has been a thorn in my side from day one is live chat. It has the fewest users, but creates one of the highest resource hogs in terms of server resources. My current solution is a hack of Conquer Chat, a free asp based chat application. I modified it to require authentication and it authenticates from my forum DB. I also created a script that got the number of and the names of chat users and call that from my main forum page.
Chat rooms for DNN have historically been either very basic or very expensive. That was until a few weeks ago. Swirlhost released an upgrade to their SwirlChat module that is absolutely fantastic. It has all the features of the chat rooms that cost in the hundreds of dollars.. The big bonus here, it costs only 40 clams. Additionally, they are happy to improve the program based on customer input. If you're looking for a chat room for your community web site, SwirlChat is it!!
Monday, August 6, 2007
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