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Graybeard
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You are probably going to want to use an added outsourced api to do that.
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I have worked with real-time chat between live people in the past and the amount of coding required is intense and advanced level.
A lot of 'chats' I see are basically help bots that is a lot less complex. That's more of a smart-form xhr/AJAX
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I have worked with real-time chat between live people in the past and the amount of coding required is intense and advanced level.
A lot of 'chats' I see are basically help bots that is a lot less complex. That's more of a smart-form xhr/AJAX
SrLudwig
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You are probably going to want to use an added outsourced api to do that.
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I have worked with real-time chat between live people in the past and the amount of coding required is intense and advanced level.
A lot of 'chats' I see are basically help bots that is a lot less complex. That's more of a smart-form xhr/AJAX
If I understand correctly what Honeybadger is saying, there's at least a couple of good chat add-ons for XenForo, for example: Chat 2 by Siropu
A lot of forum owners stay away from these add-ons because they often reduce forum activity; not to mention that a lot of confused users start using it as a search engine.
PaidPoints
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It's alright! Let's turn this thing to Facebook.
SrLudwig
Member
I agree. The few active members would probably start spending more time in the chat than posting in the forums. And yes, the drop in activity has been quite noticeable.
I would blame the usual suspects (social media and Google), but it's probably a seasonal thing or the fact that people are going out more because lockdown restrictions have been lifted almost everywhere.
Graybeard
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I was thinking more of his own website (not noticing the 'support&feedback' forum).
Here, on this website, I can't see it other than a distraction. Where did all the member traffic go? I have been noticing that for a few weeks.
Graybeard
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My user name is not appearing today and I have made a few posts today. Firefox 88.0 (64-bit) with DuckDuckGo add on with no track enabled ...
It used to work so IDK just mentioning it regarding the count? This domain has extra privileges is the user tracking cross-domain?
Francesca90
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if you have everyhting for this , you are sure , why not ?)))
A chat box sounds a cool idea, guys!
@SrLudwig that's not true, the chat won't lead us to forget about posting.
See Facebook as example! Any one can use the chat box, despite of that they still post, comment and react.
I think a live chat would make the communication better between the memebers.
You can add this option > memebers can't join the chat until they get some trophies..
(they'll be able just to watch it, not to reply until they get the trophies)
- Samira
@SrLudwig that's not true, the chat won't lead us to forget about posting.
See Facebook as example! Any one can use the chat box, despite of that they still post, comment and react.
I think a live chat would make the communication better between the memebers.
You can add this option > memebers can't join the chat until they get some trophies..
(they'll be able just to watch it, not to reply until they get the trophies)
- Samira
I don't think it would be that complicated, ..
Look!
I don't think someone whoz not interested in this field would join the forum at the first place, so, breaking the rules won't be an incomming thing, nah?
And as I suggested, what if joining the chat was only avalaible after getting throphie?
Adding a monitor would take some extra time as you said, YUP! but.. it won't be a hard challenge if you found a solid reason to have it , nah?
- Samira
SrLudwig
Member
A chat box sounds a cool idea, guys!
@SrLudwig that's not true, the chat won't lead us to forget about posting.
See Facebook as example! Any one can use the chat box, despite of that they still post, comment and react.
I think a live chat would make the communication better between the memebers.
You can add this option > memebers can't join the chat until they get some trophies..
(they'll be able just to watch it, not to reply until they get the trophies)
- Samira
Based on personal experience and what I know from other forum owners, chat add-ons do (normally) reduce forum activity.
It's only anecdotal evidence, of course, I don't think studies on this have ever been made. It's also true that often forum owners install chat add-ons to try to increase activity when forum activity is already declining; so the chat add-on itself may not always (or even in most cases) be the culprit.
SrLudwig
Member
It wouldn't necessarily reduce social activity, but it could reduce forum posting. Depending on its implementation it could have some impact or no impact at all.
For example, if the chat could be used by all members... for sure some of them would ask questions there instead of opening a new thread thinking that they'll get a faster answer.
If you restrict the chat to just a few groups, then you'd probably have the same few members doing all the chatting all the time, which wouldn't be the worst thing in the world; but considering that chat add-ons can be resource intensive, I'm not sure that it'd be worth to have it just for that.
Dirkskep
Member
Sure I'll drop in for the chat, and whatever tips and tricks are uncovered will never see the light on the forum... (unless a chat log would be posted somewhere?)
It's not reducing social activity, it's distracting... Where do you go for answers? Wait for the next chat of start a thread?
Some will prefer to ask stuff in the the chat (no blame, just a fact) and not really post on the forum (or start posting useless stuff to obtain their 'chat access badge'...
Others will post on the forum but, as stated, get less return because some users already have spent their allocated Affiliatefix time on the chat...
I appreciate the need to socialise, especially in this pandemic era. But to me chats sound incompatible with forums...
They have their use, FB was mentioned... A weekly chat in an FB group makes sense, all the information posted in the group also disappears (it does not but nobody will scroll back endlessly)... Different kind of audience if you ask me...
There is tons more value in a forum but I feel the majority of people is hooked into FB groups... (I might be wrong, I don't have any stats on that)
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