I'm looking for a particular chat interface

[bugo348]

I want to put a chatroom on my website. The criteria is that the usernames are integrated with SMF, the chat is mobile-friendly, and that it's free. I may be asking for too much, but I thought I'd ask anyway. I'm using 2.0.10.

[Looking]

There are a few available in the Mods section but you need to make sure you have the resources to handle it - also security risks.

[khigh]

That's a lot of the reasons I go the IRC route - no resources, no security issues, etc. Free of course.

Then I wean the more serious chatters off the web client on to proper clients - that's where you get your mobile-friendly - using a client like Andchat. Plus the administrator isn't limited to a web interface.

Of course where it wouldn't work is a pay site, but as long as the chat is meant to be free to all, you can't go wrong.

[yakyakyak]

The user experience on the free chats is really very poor imho. If you have to integrate Chat then go licensed, but even then from what i here they onvest in Sales but little in Support. Research will reveal supporting a relatively small member base will require quite substantial resources hence it could well be wasted money unless you have dedicated. One of the Paid versions does offer a 10 day trial, so you could try that to see if you see any degradation in performance.