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Why NextShout?
NextShout has been designed to be the fastest, most efficient shoutbox on the market.
This shoutbox uses the least amount of bandwidth of any shoutbox we've ever seen.
There's more data in your server's average HTTP Headers than an average NextShout AJAX Response.
NextShout Features
- Very small bandwidth requirements
- Multiple channel support
- Modular command system
- Fine-grained permissions for each channel and command
- Special "Aggregate" channel that allows viewing of all accessible channels at once
- Usergroup permissions for
- Viewing the shoutbox
- Posting in the shoutbox
- Viewing the archive
- Editing own/others shouts
- Deleting own/others shouts
- Bypassing flood control
- Automatic pruning and logging options on a per-channel basis
- Flood control (X shouts in Y seconds)
- Shoutbox announcement with /announce; accepts HTML and BBCode
- Shout queue system:
- Shouts are always posted in the correct order
- Brings up a list of unposted shouts in the case of a connection issue
- AJAX editing and deleting of shouts
- AJAX archive, integrated right with the shoutbox
- Ban and unban users via commands
- Gagging users (user is the only one able to see their shouts)
- View banned and gagged users (and quick unban/ungag) via /showbanned
- Ignore list from forums is honored in shoutbox
- Each user can drag the shoutbox to resize it based on their preferences
- Import shouts and some settings from the following products:
- Inferno vBShout Pro/Lite
- Cyb Chatbox
- MGC Chatbox Evo
- Dream's Chatbox
- cChatBox
- Original vBShout
- /me command for action shouts
- /msg command for whispering to other users
- /prune and /prunechannel commands for pruning all shouts or shouts from a channel
- /rollback command for removing shouts made after a certain time
- /log command for logging shouts to a thread in a specified forum
- Macro system via /mset, /mdel, /mshow, and /m, so users can create reusable shouts
- Other miscellaneous commands
- Fully phrased
- Tested in Firefox 2+, Internet Explorer 6+, Safari 3.1, Opera 9.2+, Konqueror 3.5