chat room

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.

I just recognized that there are three modules besides phpfreechat that claim to provide chatting features for a Drupal site. After a quick look at Buddy Chat, Chat Box and Chat Room I wasn't able to understand the differences between those modules.