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Online Web Chat Software?

Posted by Cliff on from the spider-talk-over-the-grapevine dept.

frooyo asks: "I have been looking for sometime now to add the functionality of web chat to my website. I have been having difficulty in finding free (open source) software that allows for a moderator and N number of registered users to chat on my website. These projects look promising, but we'd like to know what others are out there. What do you use on your website for web chatting?"

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  1. IRC by jalet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why don't you install Dancer+Dancer-Services and then the EIRC java applet ?

    Works like a charm.

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    1. Re:IRC by robochan · · Score: 2, Interesting

      IRC is definitely a good way to go. I use IRC and a web based client myself, and you don't even _need_ to run your own IRC daemon either. A channel can be set up on any public network, and you can almost always point the web based clients there.
      Clients/daemons are only a sourceforge/freshmeat search away...

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  2. Try Voodoo Chat by Hollinger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Go look at Voodoo Chat. I know of several sites that run it. It allows for moderators, kicking / banning users, and user profiles. It works pretty well, IMHO.

    MCH

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  3. I wrote a crappy one.... by titaniam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I needed a chat program, I just wrote one that uses a continuous html output. When you view the page the program gives you the latest comments, then hangs until more comments are added by someone else. Then it writes the output over the still open connection and hangs again... The program dies upon prolonged inactivity or if the same ip address requests the page again. When you submit a comment, a new page view gives you what you just entered and anything else typed in by others. I really fear for my webserver by posting this link (due to the way I implemented the chat, it is not good for large numbers of users at once), so it will "disappear" temporarily if trouble ensues: My chat program. Let me know if you like it, and I'll pass you the code, written in Perl. It is very minimalistic, but intended to be at least viewable on any browser that can show a page before the whole document is loaded. No download of software, such as the latest java version (and short simple code) is a big plus.