http://www.cometchat.com/demo
$49 one-time cost only
- CometChat software
- 12 months FREE updates
- Access to our support forum
Seems like some neat features: http://www.cometchat.com/features/plugins
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Cometchat for Xenforo
- Thread starter Digital Doctor
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http://www.cometchat.com/demo
$49 one-time cost only
Seems like some neat features: http://www.cometchat.com/features/plugins
You should make a 1 min video with audio to highlight the best parts about cometchat.
You should make a 1 min video to show it functioning. Demos are great but they are only as good as the user. So they fail alot !
I must say though, your "How to use this demo?" links at the top were effective ! Nice work.
http://www.cometchat.com/xenforo-chat
-- all these features above are fine and dandy. How about some screenshots ? Give cometchat away to a xenforo user and make them take some screengrabs for you as payment.
The Screensharing seemed to work well.
The sending files worked well (as far as I could tell).
Is it possible to not have chatrooms ... but one chat room, that is just bigger than talking to a user .... and the "CHAT window" is as show above ? Many sites are too small for multiple rooms.
I would say though, that if Tufats flashchat was converted for xenforo... I would be using that instead.
$49 is the basic edition
$129 removes branding, offers a translate function for your webpage and a "save conversation" plugin
$249 offers a iphone/ipad app along with installation/integration
$499 offers audio/video chat and screen sharing.
I was interested in this product after my demo, then was quit disappointed that I was viewing the $500 setup, not the $50 setup. The layout is quite deceptive. When you go to their main site, they mention "$49 one time cost only" and then offer to show you the demo. At no point on their main page nor in the demo do they share the possibility there will be additional costs, or that the demo is showcasing higher priced option. I was actually ready to buy after the demo, and clicked "buy now" which is when I learned that the package I viewed was $500.
If a member can chat with someone once both members followed each other, I'm going to buy it,
Based on the demo, what I read on their site and our site, I would much prefer to give DI my money and see Taiga Shoutbox system developed a bit more into a chat system, then to buy Comet Chat. Just my two cents.
Most of the users on my board complained that the board suddenly has gotten to slow and cometchat msg's, most of the time, did not get through... at the end, most of them decide it to continue the chat conversation on msn..
I do not enjoy giving this kind of reviews, but I feel I have to speak out. There are better products out there without succumbing to the hype of a facebook style chat script... just do your research correctly...
I like the way IPB implemented the chat solution. I hope xenForo comes out with a similar solution. I do not mind paying a small yearly fee to have an integrated, powerful and simple chat system like IPB’s
I will say I think Comet Chat is a great idea and plugin. BUT, it is a huge forum KILLER. It might work for Facebook, but it doesn't really help forums gain posts/threads. It may help gain members, but forum activity in terms of posting will fall.
Just because one thing works for FB doesn't mean it will work for everyone.
As aculate stated above, the forum WILL decrease in speed. If your on a shared hosting account they will probably suspend you for resource over usage. I think Comet Chat came out with a remote option, which allows you to host it on their own server to save your own.
But at the end of the day, a great product, but marketed to the wrong people. eg. Forum Activity Killer. Members chat more often than post.
