Post by Lady on Apr 19, 2014 9:30:38 GMT
So I asked this question a long time ago when the board was newer but like most things I feel it's time for a revision of opinion now that we have a larger playerbase.
Shoutbox is what we have now. It's a feature of proboards.
PROS
That's the gist of the two so what do you guys think?
Shoutbox is what we have now. It's a feature of proboards.
PROS
- Costs no money.
- Works on all skins.
- Sound (with plugin) on updates in the box.
- Allows editing and deleting of messages.
- Your name is 'saved' to whatever you're logged in as so impersonation is impossible.
- Autorefresh
CONS
- Short message 'history.' Unless you trick the shoutbox somehow you can only see about 20 messages back.
- Autorefresh does not always stay on. It can toggle off with enough inactivity which means you might miss stuff if you don't notice.
- 256 character limit on messages is kind of on the shorter side.
- Formatting things, like links, is kind of annoying.
CBox is a third party chat program that you can put into most websites and forums. It's common on many forum RPGs.
PROS
- Long message history! You can look back many, many messages more than shoutbox. (About 100 I believe)
- Linking things is automatic, no need to muck about with url codes.
- You can have little avatars.
- A lot easier to add custom smilies than in shoutbox.
- Paid version has a 1000 character limit.
CONS
- Unless you're really clever with how you color the cbox or all your forum skins look the same, the cbox will look bad/out of place on some skins. (It looks the same across all skins.)
- Although you can register names, it's not required and if you don't, someone could impersonate you.
- Autorefresh costs money as do longer message lengths and more message history.
- Password protecting your name requires premium.
- If you upgrade to premium but don't renew it your cbox freezes when the premium runs out.
- You can delete your most recent shout but that's it and you can't edit them.
- Free version only has a 200 character limit.
That's the gist of the two so what do you guys think?