Shoutbox vs ChatBox, what's the difference

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baka

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As the title says, what's the difference between shoutbox and chatbox...is it essentially the same thing?

Can you recommend a product for me?
I need:
1. Ability for users to shout messages
2. Ability to control which usergroups can send shout msges
2a (Even better would be ability to control how much reputation user has to have before they can shout).


Thanks.
 
I would also like to know the samething, and one morei nformation that I can give out is that I am using vb 3.7.3 version. so which shout box or chat box is compliant with this version?
 
I just tried Inferno vBShout 2.5.0 Pro, it works on 3.7.3, no problems encountered. Very simplistic with some good options.

However, it has a major flaw in it's permissions. You can "Ban" usergroups from shoutbox, such usergroups will still be able to view the shoutbox itself, but they can't actually view any shouts.

I want my regular registered users to be able to view the shoutbox and shouts that others are posting, I just don't want them to be able to post shouts. This however is impossible to achieve with Inferno vBShout.

I'll try next one I guess. It sucks having to test crap on live site.
 
Yes it does. That's why most of us have test sites. You might want to consider that option. It has saved me tons of time.
 
I would, but can't seem to get any server working right on vista 64, WAMP is totally bugged up. I guess I could always use my laptop for it. Thanks for the reminder.

For the record, shoutbox and chatbox is the same thing as far as I could tell, and for now I gave up on them, some lack features while others use too many resources for my taste.
 
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