Official: Requesting feedback on live chat

[hawkeye]

Leet?

[tals]

I think I voted Gabby, but now I thnk about it IRC has the advantage you can use your own IRC clients as well so I think I go with IRC in a popup.

Tals

[Tr0y]

PHP chat looks okay.

If the server can take it.
You might need another server just for the chat.

By default one user do a http request each 5 seconds so it requires 1 apache thread for 5 users. Moreover, 1 apache thread is about 8Mo on my system (maybe it can be reduced with fine tunned configuration), so if there is 100 concurent users it will eat 100/5 = 20 threads ie 20*8 = 160 Mo of RAM.

Note: Mo = Mb

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Other measures you can take to cut down spam, ect. , is to generate an encrypted key for each channel so it's harder to guess the channel name.

i.e. conquerclub.com/?game=1234&k={encrypted key here}

This would allow for kicking/banning players for chat, and reduce random spamming/impersonating.

History is already there, so you have evidence.

Gabbly said in the future they will have private chat.

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More chat clients
http://ajax.phpmagazine.net/2006/02/aja ... tions.html

Also, look for options to throttle idlers, to cut down on bandwidth.

http://www.sterryit.com/chatr/ <= might be easier on your server.

[Ishiro]

I know it'll be hard on your server and bandwidth, but I would prefer to use one of the PHP chats over IRC. IRC is just too open unless you want to spend time setting up IRC bots to handle banning people and authorizations. With a php chat you can ensure that people have to be validly logged in to the site to get to the chat... with IRC, you don't need to have an account at Conquer Club to go in.

[AK_iceman]

Yeah, this chat Gabbly didnt really work out. The kiddies have figured out how to change their names and now they are just impersonating other people and spamming the hell out of it.

Can we please get a mod in there or something or fix this problem?

This kind of defeats the purpose of setting this up.

[reverend_kyle]

Yeah, this chat Gabbly didnt really work out. The kiddies have figured out how to change their names and now they are just impersonating other people and spamming the hell out of it.

Can we please get a mod in there or something or fix this problem?

This kind of defeats the purpose of setting this up.

--- Start Gabbly Suggestions ---

Other measures you can take to cut down spam, ect. , is to generate an encrypted key for each channel so it's harder to guess the channel name.

i.e. conquerclub.com/?game=1234&k={encrypted key here}

This would allow for kicking/banning players for chat, and reduce random spamming/impersonating.

now lack troy's got a good one here.

[DAZMCFC]

not enough people using it when there seems to be over a hundred registered at the same time other wise it is pretty good chatting to different people from around the world and also arguing

[DAZMCFC]

all you have to do is mute the person spamming it is not a problem