Live chat system
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Last updated 9 years ago
Nikhil Bathla Asked 12 years ago
Hi,
Your ask the coach forums are very good. But their main disadvantage is that they are offline. Please make a live chat system by which we can interact between Pingskills users.
Alois Rosario Answered 12 years ago
Hi Nikhil,
It is an interesting idea. Jeff and I have been thinking of ways to make this happen.
If anyone else has an idea along these lines it would be great to hear from you.
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douglas harley Posted 12 years ago
excellent suggestion nikhil! it would be super-sweet to be able to chat anytime with other pingskills aficionados!
@alois: here are a couple free and open-source chat systems i found via quick google search, the first one looks especially rich and powerful (looks like y'all are running PHPs with MySQL in the backend, so either one should slot-in nicely with your existing architecture):
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajax-chat/
M V Posted 12 years ago
Nikhil Bathla Posted 12 years ago
thanks guys. I think there should be chat rooms system like penhold and shakehand, etc which can the user more.
Nikhil Bathla Posted 12 years ago
so, what do you think alois when you will launch this system.
Jeff Plumb from PingSkills Posted 12 years ago
douglas harley Posted 12 years ago
webinars are not a particular easy thing to setup and execute...speaking as someone who has to do that as part of their day-to-day work. :) also, they are synchronous, which is problematical for user bases spanning many time zones.
also, another potential idea is a separate forum, that is not dedicated to "ask the coach". that way, users could asynchronously create/post-in/read threads and rooms for their individual subjects of interest, like penholders, shakehand, recent tournaments, classic matches, favorite players, match advice, etc
here is an example: http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/
Nikhil Bathla Posted 12 years ago
michmarv mich Posted 11 years ago
THATS VERY GOOD IDEA!!!WE CAN CHAT OUR TWO BEST COACH TO TELL US ALL ABOUT TABLE TENNIS...NICE IDEA NIKHIL
thefastestt thefastestt Posted 10 years ago
Maybe you could add a link like on blogs, to facilitate the chatting system thingy? Don't know how it works though.
Moxie Patel Posted 9 years ago
SUPER EXCELLENT IDEA.
Kaustubh Kulkarni Posted 9 years ago
Good idea
Kaustubh Kulkarni Posted 9 years ago
xat.com is a good website that gives free chat boxes to websites.
Jeff Plumb from PingSkills Posted 9 years ago
We've actually implemented our own and are just testing it now. If you want to try it then head over to the PingSkills Chat Room and let me know what you think.
It's still only in development so we will be making some small changes. We'll also let you know when Alois or myself is going to be online.
Kaustubh Kulkarni Posted 9 years ago
Oh! It is very good.