Chat solutions for large (200+) crowds?
 

I'm trying to find a solution that will hold up if you have several hundred or thousands online simultaneously.

Any sites or software that you know of?

a crowd, say...200 times the size in this thread currently. :)

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Parachat (Java) may have a solution

Here's a bump for you man, good luck on your search...

irc.....

Was going to come in and say irc. Can certainly handle it very well i think...

cool. The big camsites use homegrown solutions, I assume. Are they irc-based?

I can't speak for everyone but our protocol is proprietary (i.e. not IRC) and I think most of my competitors are too.


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Ajax off a mysql db...

we're about to write jabber-based software for such needs as you have, so we will probably speak few months later ;)

bump bump!

Yeah, I've been looking here and there over the past couple of years as well.

I would like something on a smaller version of Yahoo chat.

:Oh crap

I was also going to say IRC however it's not inherently 'web-based'...however there is this thing called irc::cgi that's free, but not sure if it could handle the type of load you're talking about to be honest.

http://cgiirc.org/

Halcyon hit me up on icq or myspace or hug me tomorrow, I have a great solution for you with webcam access if needed