I know of a non-profit ministry organization that is wanting to add a good chat solution to their website, ideally a solution that is flexible and powerful, but that is reasonably simple to implement into their website. Currently, the chat solution would need to very reliably handle at least 200-300 chat participants at one time, but it would need to be able to handle possibly even a couple thousand chat participants in the next year or two.
The chat solution needs to be more along the lines of IRC, where everyone is seeing the messages that are posted by default. It would be nice if one also has the option of sending private, direct messages to the moderators or other key people behind the scenes if there is a message that you do not want everyone to see. I am not sure of the importance of whether "guests" are allowed and/or a log-in of some type is required. The chat solution will be used for live, real-time conversations during live broadcasted events which are currently using Livestream for the broadcasts. Livestream has its own chat solution, but the non-profit ministry organization is looking for a better chat solution to integrate into their website for use during their live broadcasted events.
This could be a service offered by a company that could be integrated into their website or simply chat software installed onto their server to run on the website.
As far as cost, a free or low-cost solution would be nice, but it would be worth for them to pay a bit of money if there was a particularly good solution or two that was better than the free/low-cost options.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions or feedback.
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I know of a non-profit ministry organization that is wanting to add a good chat solution to their website, ideally a solution that is flexible and powerful, but that is reasonably simple to implement into their website. Currently, the chat solution would need to very reliably handle at least 200-300 chat participants at one time, but it would need to be able to handle possibly even a couple thousand chat participants in the next year or two.
The chat solution needs to be more along the lines of IRC, where everyone is seeing the messages that are posted by default. It would be nice if one also has the option of sending private, direct messages to the moderators or other key people behind the scenes if there is a message that you do not want everyone to see. I am not sure of the importance of whether "guests" are allowed and/or a log-in of some type is required. The chat solution will be used for live, real-time conversations during live broadcasted events which are currently using Livestream for the broadcasts. Livestream has its own chat solution, but the non-profit ministry organization is looking for a better chat solution to integrate into their website for use during their live broadcasted events.
This could be a service offered by a company that could be integrated into their website or simply chat software installed onto their server to run on the website.
As far as cost, a free or low-cost solution would be nice, but it would be worth for them to pay a bit of money if there was a particularly good solution or two that was better than the free/low-cost options.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions or feedback.
-JayZJay
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