One to One Chat - No Chatroom?

[bfarber]

There have been a couple of major updates (the software is the youngest software on our product line mind you) and we rarely talk about what features we're considering in advance, outside of the blog as I mentioned. :)

[Cheapy]

Another use for multiple chat rooms would be having a real-time meeting place for forum moderators. Really hope IPS Chat gets that feature sooner, rather than later.

[Shyatic]

Honestly the biggest downfall of chat is that it *has* to be hosted by IPS.

That's ridiculous, and I imagine why the cost is inflated. People have different needs, and I have needs where I need users to have MULTIPLE chats (one per forum, or whatever) and these are features that don't exist. I'd like to see it decouple from IPS and let me host it. I'd like also to have the ability to put the chat on the "cloud" so it doesn't drain from my server resources, or something like that.

I think it's a valuable resource if it's willing to be developed. I'd just like to see some information from IPS saying that they intend to. Or just let Cometchat take over and shuttle the project.

[bfarber]

Honestly the biggest downfall of chat is that it *has* to be hosted by IPS.

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I'd like also to have the ability to put the chat on the "cloud" so it doesn't drain from my server resources, or something like that.

I'm not sure if you noticed this...but that is effectively how the service operates now. It operates as a cloud-based service, it's just that we host it instead of trying to instruct users how to create complicated server setups on other servers that may or may not be configured to allow such capabilities.

[Shyatic]

I'm not sure if you noticed this...but that is effectively how the service operates now. It operates as a cloud-based service, it's just that we host it instead of trying to instruct users how to create complicated server setups on other servers that may or may not be configured to allow such capabilities.

I've noticed... i also can't use a chat so severely limited by users or by price.

When i say cloud, i mean Azure or Amazon, not IPS. I need to expand at a huge rate for what I am trying to do, and the prices you set are astronomical... though thats probably more from the app simply not being mature as the others in the suite.

[naicuoctavian]

Hello there,
I wanted to let you know that we just released the IP.Board video chat application into the marketplace and we wanted to get some feedback on how the product can be improved . You can get a 15 day trial from our site (reference on the product page). From what I see until now, people say that's expensive, but we have put a lot of work into it and the updates keep coming once a month. So other that the money problem, what can you say about our product? What else do you want to see in it?

[Bill Edwards]

Hello there,

I wanted to let you know that we just released the IP.Board video chat application into the marketplace and we wanted to get some feedback on how the product can be improved . You can get a 15 day trial from our site (reference on the product page). From what I see until now, people say that's expensive, but we have put a lot of work into it and the updates keep coming once a month. So other that the money problem, what can you say about our product? What else do you want to see in it?

http://community.inv...at-application/

Thanks for your input but my question was about a Facebook style one to one chat facility, not a video application that costs more than the forum itself. $179? Are you serious??

[naicuoctavian]

You can try the http://avchat.im if you really want to see a chat that is made upon the technology behind Facebook's chat. You can try it and tell us what you think.
And thank for the reply!

[miraclesun]

Prices for that are pretty ridiculous.

[Bill Edwards]

Prices for that are pretty ridiculous.

I can't afford or justify that. Was a nice idea, but clearly there isn't anything available for us at the moment!