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Geek Culture / User-based chat from scratch. Pointers?

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Plystire
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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 06:13
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So, I'm wanting to set up user-based chat from scratch. It will an IM type system where users can choose to chat to other specific users, so not a chat room.

I'm torn between various methods of how to set it up, so I wanted to ask the community for their thoughts on the matter. The main points of topic I would like to touch on are what the pros and cons are to various features offered in IMs (such as saved history, etc), real-time updating and how to go about it, as well as how to store chats online.

My initial thought was to use MySQL (or some form of database) to store the chats, but not entirely sure how I would set it up for the effect I'm looking for. Any thoughts?


~Plystire

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Benjamin
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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 06:17
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What language are you planning to write it in? C++? C#? Java?



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Da_Rhyno
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Maybe you could try something that doesn't require a set server or login system... Something peer-to-peer where the person just opens the program and creates a connection to everyone else he/she/it are friends with.
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bitJericho
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Posted: 13th Oct 2011 16:16
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p2p ftw!


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