[TriLUG] online web chat server recommendations?

[Roy Vestal]

Try Jabber. It has Windows/Linux/Mac clients. Windows/*nix/Mac/*BSD
servers

www.jabber.org


On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 11:27, Ryan Wheaton wrote:
> 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