Can we have a serious talk about chat??

As any of us know the chat that comes with dolphin just is flawed beyond belief .. it is the first and biggest complaint every new site owner with chat intentions has... and as we have seen there is no for seen plans to ever fix it. I was shocked to see rayz even add the anti flood .. and by "add" i mean charge 10 bucks for the mod, after years of hearing people beg for it,,, there is still the fact there is no ignore option, rooms go missing,, blah blah blah... the first thing we tell people when they realize chat is screwed and worthless, is to buy another chat program. I have bought many flashcom installs over the years, but is it a real fix?? i mean can deano come up with something?? .. Is anyone working on anything? .. I mean I was just thinking this, this past weekend as we were all trying to fix a media server bug I was having with the new chat program I was just forced to throw out 500 bucks for.. if someoone can come up with something that works I know for fact it will sell!

anyone have ANY input?

Nope. I can't.

I can't work with flash. And if you want webcam support there really is no other options yet. HTML5 is not there yet. At least not with all browsers.

It doesn't do any good to talk about chat. That would infer it actually works ... which it doesn't

What is the problem with chat rooms? What do you mean chat rooms were missing?

This problem occurs when site url is not stored on RMS side. Rooms are disappeared after each RMS restart, but if the url is there, then no problem happens.

What is your problem with media serer? do you mean RMS or some other?

I have completely removed chat from my 7.09 site. I did it ages ago. I got so fed up with rooms dissapearing, freezing, and generally being a miserable experience for both myself and my members. If it is ever re=vamped and ever actually works as it should for a module within a product that has just has a 300% price increase, then I will considder putting it back on site.

Nathan.

Well, look at my module at http://www.boonex.com/m/rms-free-chat

Maybe you will like it and find useful for you.

Also you can test it at http://rayzzz.com/m/chat/home/

 That's it Rayz... use this thread to promote more of your products.  If you showed the same diligence in improving your core video chat product, as you have shown in marketing add-ons, this topic might not exist.  Three years ago, I asked for flood control, a basic chat necessity.  To this day, to disable the chat room, all you have to do is hold down the enter key.  Three years ago, I brought up the topic of xml skinnable flash apps.... no luck on that one either.   Look at some of my 3 or 4 year old tickets in Trac, and you'll probably find more issues, like maximum message length filters, bad word filters, etc.... the kinds of things that every modern chat system has, that yours lacks. 

Rayz, I respect you as a coder, and I know you are very talented.  However, you need to get the lead out of your ass, and put some serious work into the Chat app, to bring it into the 21st century.

P.S. P2P chat might be OK for person to person messaging, but for any serious chat application where multiple people will likely be viewing one webcam, it's not going to work so well. 

lol years of posting in these forums and freaking about about the chats.. and just coming to the point i said to hell with it and went and bought a product that works, and i swear this is the first time i ever seen rayz pop up and say "wait, whats the problem?"

lol on a side note my real chats went down the other night and i had to use rayz as a temp, it help quite nice with 200 plus people in it.

but rayz if you wanna know what is wrong.. a. no ignore feature, sometimes people fight and dont want to read each others text

b. no max line settings.. so someone can kill a whole chat by

doing this and you have no way to ignore it.

b. rooms aways go missing!... im sure there is more but i stopped using it long ago so i forget

The double posting bug is the biggest problem and I am thinking that it is a timing issue.  I am a fast typist but I doubt if I could type the same response twice and hit enter that fast.  At the same time, if you are pasting in text and hitting enter then you might could.  I have your anti-flood mod but have yet to install it.  I was hoping it might fix the double post bug; not sure if that is true or not.  Perhaps the key to fixing this problem is to somehow see if identical text is being sent.  This double posting bug is a problem and I am told it has been reported many times before.

So the last post was in 2013. Here we are now in late 2014 and chat still has problems.  For the money I paid for Dolphin I would expect something that worked out of the box.

I am beginning to regret buy this program. As things stand at the moment I would NOT recomend Dolphin to anyone. Not even My worst enemy!

I have see posts from way back in the 90's looking for fixes foe bugs yet here we are so many years later and the same problems are still here.

It would apear that once they have you money they just dont care! Boonex please proove me wrong!

 Why didn't you try it out for a while before you bought a license? Just curious...

If thats the best you got for Demo, then it only tells you not to buy. Demo site just goes to loading... but never loads!