Hi to all! :)

I'm new with Drupal and searching for a good and Drupal user integrated chat solution. Chatroom seems to be a good solution but I miss some features (dice, text color per user). Here two features I'm searching for.

-> jsDice integration (http://drupal.org/project/jsdice)
-> Show/save session history
-> *optional* keep online if leave chat and browse the website (and see how also online in chat room in a block)

Exists an api to add new features to chat room or will you add these features to this module?

At the moment I haven't found a good documentation about features und a plugin api.

Best regards

JohnnyX

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Fidelix CreditAttribution: Fidelix commented

At least for text color being role based, you can see this issue:
#955120: Role-based color

But this will only allow you to differentiate between user roles, and they wont be able to pick colors themselves.

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JohnnyX CreditAttribution: JohnnyX commented

Ok, thanks for your answer.

Maybe the best solution is a xmpp server with dice bot and a xmpp web chat client...
An authentification at the chat with the Drupal account would be great (I think a Drupal xmpp module would do that...).
Is that possible? So users can use the web client or an im client like pidgin.

It's only an idea but I don't know how to install these festures :(

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Fidelix CreditAttribution: Fidelix commented

Not with chatroom JohnnyX. This would only be possible if another module would be built from start.

But i do believe this would be the most powerful solution for chatting.

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JohnnyX CreditAttribution: JohnnyX commented

@Fidelix:
Yes, such a module would be great! But who can/ would write it? I would help but haven't experience with drupal modules...