posted by chowhound:
Dave, it's working flawlessly on my browser this afternoon, even without reload. Don't know if it's something you did or just browser ju-ju, but there yuh go.
I did monkey with some things so it may have been me. lol
posted by chowhound:
One bit of weirdness, though...I tried to type "testing" and got an error message "shout already exists". FWIW there are no previous shouts by me in the window...yesterday's are gone.
The shout that already exists isn't being displayed. There is a buffer of 20 shouts and once it is filled the buffer is emptied. This keeps the number of queries down.
posted by chowhound:
Hey, I don't understand the tech stuff...would it be overly optimistic to hope this is the beginning of a serious built-in chat client for UBBT? Or is this about as far as it can go?
No. Definately not a serious chat client. What your looking at in the shout box is a very simple "showflat.php" display. A "serious" chat client also needs a chat server in which to connect to. For those sites that wish to have "their" database used for nicknames and such they would need a dedicated chat server on which there would be no chance of other users being able to use the same nickname. There are php chat scripts out there. Still, basicly just the same as posting messages to a board though. I don't think there are any that run as a background proccess as a dedicated chat server would need to.
posted by chowhound:
Also, how intensive is it on server/db/bandwidth?
The shout box is is less load then showflat.php is.
posted by chowhound:
Congrats on one of your coolest hacks ever.
Thanks
