chat room

this should be the last BETA - next release should be an RC! thanks to all the people who submitted patches, bug reports and ideas :-)

there's now an upgrade path from the 6.x-1 branch to the 6.x-2 branch, testers more than welcome!

release notes here:

http://drupal.org/node/637262

the first beta for the development branch of chatroom module is now ready for testing.

compared to the current stable branch, this beta is faster and more feature complete. the focus now is on fixing remaining bugs, updating documentation, creating an upgrade path and making the UI nicer. beta-testers are very welcome to help shake out bugs, and any users with a 6.x-1 data set that can help with testing the upgrade path are especially welcome :-)

new features for the 6.x-2 branch:

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the second alpha of the drupal 6 development branch of the chatroom module is ready to go. this is a big update. many, many bugs fixed from 6.x-2.0-alpha1, and some nice new features. this branch now has more features than the 6.x-1.0 branch, and although its a long way from stable, is now a lot less likely to kill your kittens.

this is ready for wider testing, but not yet for production use, and there no upgrade path from the 6.x-1.0 branch yet.

the chatroom 6.x-2 branch is coming along nicely, much old cruft is being ripped out so some cool features can be added.

i'm open to a complete revamp of the user interface of the module, and looking for anyone interested in making things user friendly and good looking to help out with mockups, css, etc.

any takers?

anyone interested in taking on maintaining the chatroom 5.x code?

i'm busily bring the 6.x port into shape, and just don't have time to look after the 5.x stuff.

new development release of the chatroom is now up:

http://drupal.org/node/70707/release

big, nasty, next generation code - 2947 lines changed.

do not use this yet on a production site, because it may eat your site and kill your kittens.

you have been warned.

new features, which are pretty much all under the hood:

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chatroom module is back in active development.

after a long time away from the module, i'm picking it up again and trying to whip it back into shape. for non-developers, please try out the latest beta or dev code and report bugs and feature requests.

Hey all,

Trying to get our own drupal indy chat room hopping so we can help provide support to each other and continue to grow the local community. Our Drupal Indy group already has a chat room. It is listed below:

#drupal-indy
URL: irc://freenode/drupal-indy

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to host a meeting between a dozen or so members of my site next week.

At it's most basic, we want to be able to have an irc/skype type discussion, with everyone being able to make text-based contributions.

It seems like there's no stable way to do this through Drupal, with Chatroom being the most likely candidate but too unstable for important meetings (is it unfair of me to say that?). I'm looking into integrating flashchat but haven't gone down that route yet.

Just posted this simple module to add mebeam video chat to a drupal site.
http://drupal.org/node/263080
MeBeam is a free flash video chat service. This module allows randomizing the room name via the cron hook to minimize unwanted traffic / bookmarking etc. Just posting here so local Drupal users find it first.