just wondering if this site has or will have a chat room, it would be cool to have it so users can easily kick it there, they just spice up sites like this x3
Discuss how the site can be improved. It's a new site after all.
Stallion
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Escondido, CaliforniaMember since:
Jul 20, 2015just wondering if this site has or will have a chat room, it would be cool to have it so users can easily kick it there, they just spice up sites like this x3
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Mare
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SeattleMember since:
Feb 06, 2015Yeah, I have a chat system in the works, but it's not very close to being done. It's been bottle-necked by my knowledge of WebSockets, Pusher, and stuff. It probably won't be finished for a couple more months.
Transpony
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Oct 18, 2015http://www.phpfreechat.net/Since you have proved yourself to be a great Dev, I wonder in the case of a chatroom.. why not just modify a already existing script there are many canned php chat scripts that are open source also reporting a bug since i tried posting that link it did not display the text i wanted and it put it in the wrong place....
then again I have no clue if you are using limited hosting or not, or if you are on your own server.
but my personal comment on this is.. I do not think your site is ready for a chatroom, there are not that many active users at least as I personally can tell.. and from advertising and social networking experience no fewer than 10 hardcore users are required to keep a chat going
ps.sorry if posting here was obtrusive or brash
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Mare
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SeattleMember since:
Feb 06, 2015No, thanks for the insights. I've used PHPFreeChat in the past, but I'm currently using much more up-to-date technologies such as the Laravel Framework, so I'm hand-coding it with the help of whatever things I can find on Packagist or on GitHub that are PSR-1 / PSR-4 compliant. This will make sure the project isn't bogged down with spaghetti code. And I'm using a cloud server instance.
I thought the same thing on the chat - not enough users. But ultimately, I also believe if the site provides any type of real-time interaction, the users will slowly begin to stay online. Right now, without any real-time interaction, the site is somewhat like an email conversation - check for new stuff, reply, and leave.
Stallion
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Escondido, CaliforniaMember since:
Jul 20, 2015yeah that's what I thought too, that users would stay loggen in here longer with a chat room, but yeah no hurries dude take your time doing what you are.. I dunno naything about making chat rooms but I assume it ain't do easy xD
Stallion
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MinneapolisMember since:
Jan 18, 2016I agree with Naomi Raine. phpfreechat works well enough, with the traffic on this site 2 - 4 rooms is good enough. Maybe one just for role play. Make sure it's after the log in. And ADMIN could lock a person out if necessary.