[TriLUG] online web chat server recommendations?

[Dave Sorenson]

Have you considered Jabber? http://www.jabber.org/ It's not web based, but
 it and the clients are open source. We are testing it @work and are
finding it to be pretty well put together.

Dave S.


> Hey Everybody,
>
> I've been trying to find a good open source web chat program to run on
> one of our servers.  I can't seem to find one that is really good.  I
> checked sourceforge and googled around some, but all the ones that I
> found were incomplete, or didn't have a lot of the features that I'm
> looking for.  I tried webchat, phpMyChat, and phpOpenChat.  The basic
> functionality that I'm looking for is to require a login to enter a
> chat, and being able to moderate a chat thereafter.  So, basically, I'd
> invite certain people to a chat, they'd log in, and then I'd have a
> special guest (or something like that) there for them to chat with (but
> being able to control what questions make it to the special guest).
>
> Anyone know of a good program?  I guess it doesn't necessarily have to
> be open source, but would like to keep it to be rather inexpensive (<
> $300).
>
>
> thanks,
>
> -rtw
>
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