Just wanted to give a heads up here. We chose Cometchat… and oh my what a mess. We ended up hiring them for a custom solution that they simply can’y seem to solve. It’s not an easy task as it’s their small chat window + adding their chat in a large chat window within the Buddypress profile (and so the two should sync instantly), but non the less should be fixable.
We should have been finished several weeks ago, it’s 7 days since we should have launched and we have a chat plugin that is utter rubbish as it does not work and cannot launch…
Either they fix one thing and destroy three other things within their plugin along the way, they fix one thing but mess up our site or they, as now, simply do not answer me (nor work on files) although their support is online. I’ve tried to chat them up on Skype but they have “limited Skype access” (their product is a chat…) although they are online.
So for now I cannot recommend Cometchat. I do still hope to hear from them and hope they will fix all these issues during today and tomorrow, saturday, but I doubt it.
@mcpeanut, exactly. There’s private messages built in, but this is rather old school. You can’t leave the conversation as you can on FB, you can’t upload files to the conversation etc. I am after something like Facebook chat/messaging system.
What I mean is this: Right now, it seems users can only send “standard” messages through the wordpress/buddypress messages system, or chat through for example arrow chat or Cometchat.
To be able to view all messages (chat messages and “standard” messages between users) in the same place (like in FB or any other modern platform) would be a good improvement. Or perhaps simply throw out the regular messaging system and be able to add the chat to the profile?
Hi Julian,
Yes, this is a cool plugin, but I’m after something where you can write a message from the BuddyPress profile to another user and then it kind of is already a chat – like on Facebook.
