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[Ludicrum]

I liked the old chat box. I liked being able to see what people were saying, even if it was hours ago. Now ... nothingness.

[Amadeus]

Okay, yes it would be nice if we had a IRC but like Bagheadinc said. It will not be done. Same with XAT.

EDIT* I want people to search for new chatbox options here. I was thinking AJAX when the developer updates it this month.

oh dammit!

[RiotingSpectre]

OK, so what do you want to do for the time being? Old chat?

That's your call, Eddie. I'll speak for all of us when I say that we can wait until the "best" alternative can be found and implemented. We wouldn't want you to redo the old one and then replace it with a new one soon after that.

[CaptainCapslock]

OK, so what do you want to do for the time being? Old chat?

Unless it is too much trouble to implement the old one again, I would honestly do so.

[SwiftIllusion]

I discovered this which looks really good, free version, and from what I've read integrates correctly with the forums user permissions .
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=233009

Also rom what I've read in the comments
"That's the great thing about it - once the users are authenticated on your site, it doesn't use any of your bandwidth or server resources. All chat communication is hosted by AddOnChat's apparently robust infrastructure. I've had over 160 people in my chatroom at the same time without problem."

[RiotingSpectre]

Eddie: What version of vBulletin do we have?

[Eddie K]

4.2.0, so this should work.

[RiotingSpectre]

I discovered this which looks really good, free version, and from what I've read integrates correctly with the forums user permissions .
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=233009

Also rom what I've read in the comments
"That's the great thing about it - once the users are authenticated on your site, it doesn't use any of your bandwidth or server resources. All chat communication is hosted by AddOnChat's apparently robust infrastructure. I've had over 160 people in my chatroom at the same time without problem."

It's certainly interesting to say the least. It seems more stable than ArrowChat and has an option to actually turn the sound off.

[user82]

I vote old chat!

[RiotingSpectre]

I vote old chat!

We changed it for a reason...