Buddypress Plugin Site

Hey everybody!  Long time no chat eh?  Ok, sorry for the pun.  We’ll have an update on the progress soon. So stay tuned!

Here’s what the Buddypress Chat plugin offers your site:

- Any user with an account can login and chat with other users that are online.

- Each user can mark themselves as available or unavailable for chat

- A new Chat menu item appears in the My Account menu of the navigation bar.

- The menu takes users to a page where they can view who is currently available for chat.

- The plugin checks the database to see which users were recently active. So when a user drops out of that list for inactivity then they no longer appear in the list of available users for chat until they become active on your site again.

- Chatting with a user produces a small chat box at the bottom of the screen that stays in place even if someone scrolls the screen. Chat conversation is preserved across different pages on your site, so conversions are not interrupted while someone surfs various pages on your site

Upcoming  features will include:

- Chat history

- Optional chat window layouts

This plugin is currently in development although you can test it right now on this site. So if you’ve got wishlist items for it then speak up quick!

Is the chat in the wrong place? Should it be in a popup window?  Longer horizontal bar at the bottom? What?