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I need a chat room for my website, can you help me find one?

Asked by RedPowerLady (12598points) May 29th, 2010
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Hi. I’m trying to put together a chat room for my website. I’ve got one on now. What I want is one where I can use password protection. What I have now makes me enable the password protection daily. That isn’t practical for me. I’m looking for something free or low-cost.

What I’m Using Right Now: everywherefreechat

Any ideas? Thanks!

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SmashTheState's avatar

If you’re not prepared to use DALnet or EFnet or QuakeNet or UnderNet, why not run your own IRC server? IRC has a low overhead, is secure, doesn’t exclude people with unpopular browsers, and is DESIGNED for realtime communication, while any kind of chatroom you can make with a browser is by definition an ugly kludge.

jrpowell's avatar

I use this. You can see it here

You need PHP and MySQL installed on your server. 99% of them already do. If you know how to make a database you can get it going in a few minutes.

RedPowerLady's avatar

Thanks for the suggestions :)

HungryGuy's avatar

@SmashTheState”... any kind of chatroom you can make with a browser is by definition an ugly kludge.” You mean like what we’re doing right here on Fluther?

blueberry_kid's avatar

Maybe, you can try http://www.xat.com

Jrome's avatar

what about Meebo? They support all the big IM services and offer a chat room product that’s pretty feature rich, and by rich I mean free.

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