ArrowChat

Hi

The first and at the moment biggest problem for us is the fact, that the popout of a chatroom is bugged. If a user popouts a chatroom and refreshes the page, new messages doesn't go to the popout, but to the chatbar.

https://dasnetz.me

Messages cannot be synced between different tabs (or pop outs) of ArrowChat without the use of our push service: http://www.arrowchat.com/push/

So, the popout is not working, if the user stays on the site? And that's intended?

Pop out chat can be disabled via the admin panel if you don't like this behavior. We're continually working on improving syncing for non-push users.

For our users, the group chat is nearly unusable without the popout.

There would be multiple solutions for the problem: if the user opens the chatroom as popout, deactivate the chatrooms in the chatbar (cookie, session ...). Or don't use a database-field for the "read-status". This creates a unnecessary write process for the database (you should avoid any unnecessary write process with a high performance application like a chat). You could just submit the ID of the last received message with the ajax-call and send all messages with a ID greater than that to the client. So every browser/window/tab/whatever would be synced.

So, the bottom of the line is, that it's not possible to let the users open a chatroom as popout and use the site at the same time, without a monthly fee for a push-service that is not needed apart from that?