January 31st, 2012Spend Credits: Membership Levels:
· Chat users may upgrade membership levels to VIP/Premium/Plus by paying credits.
More Exposure of Gifts:
· It is available to check what gift(s) another user has
· received in his/her profile panel.
Convenient Shortcut Menu is Added:
· When moving mouse over the right area of the chat screen, a shortcut menu will be available for a better user experience, including: sounds, scrolling, screen clearing control.
Earn Credits by Chatting:
· Users may earn credits by registering an account or simply being available (instead of being busy or away or idle).
URL Integration is Improved:
· Add a format check for the return value when the Database type is set to be "URL" for the setting: Admin Panel-> Server Settings-> Integration.
· Wrong Auth-URL, 123 Flash Chat Software
Code Generator is Improved:
· Add a check to see if a chat room made from the current code can be accessible via the mobile devices, when the Client Type is set to be HTML Chat in the Code Generator.
November 30th, 2011Video Conference Module is Available:
· By launching the optional module, video publishers become broadcasters, whose video will automatically broadcast for everyone in the current chat room. And the admin can set the max number (from 1 to 12) of video sessions for every room.
Performance is Improved:
· The chat client performance is greatly improved.
Mobile Billing is Supported:
· So users can buy virtual credits via mobile phone. And the credits exchange ratio can now be defined.
MSN Connect is Enabled:
· Users may login the chat room with their Windows Live Messenger accounts.
Video Window is Optimized:
· The mouse-over menu of the video window is re-designed.
User List Control Button Stands Out:
· The button for showing/hiding the user list becomes easier to be found.
Easier to Launch Games:
· The game button is moved to the top menu for better exposure.
· Better User Experience: Enter a Room First, Then Login
· In case of auto-login with only parameter "init_room" instead of "init_user" or "init_password", and the designated room is not restricted (like member-only, password-protected, ppm-room, etc.), users will be able to read the text and watch the video inside the room first, then be required to login. Meanwhile users can't interact with the chat room before logging in.
Better Performance in Editing Language:
· So that it becomes more efficient to edit the interface languages.
Bug fixed:
· Some language elements missing in the original packs are now added.
· The dates in the following circumstances are corrected to the server time: Ban List, PPM history and virtual gift history.
August 25th, 2011Social Connect:
· It consists features of social sign-on, linking, sharing, Facebook chat, tweet chat and follow a Twitter user.
Social Login:
· Allow chat users to login the chat room with their existing Facebook , Twitter , Yahoo or Google accounts.
Linking and Sharing:
· Allow chat account to link to their Facebook and Twitter account.
Linking Benefits:
· Facebook Chat
· Another great leap forward is that 123 Flash Chat can now communicate with the Facebook chat directly!
Tweet Chat:
· It's also possible to sync your public chat messages to your Twitter account.
Simpler Button Layout:
· The top toolbar is greatly simplified to keep only the most important buttons and move the others to the submenu, so does the middle toolbar above the input area.
· Which makes the chat even more handy and the chat area becomes larger and neater.
Simplified Video Layout:
· The video window in the embedded mode is greatly simplified, the frame is removed and the video toolbar becomes visible only on mouse-over.
Added Key Words Search in Admin Panel:
· It makes it even easier for admin to manage the chat room.
Added Monitor Panel to Your PC:
· With it, the admin can start, stop, restart server, as well as enter the chat demo and the admin panel, which is also an effort to gain easy management.
Added Unignore Panel:
· With it, the chat users can either delete specific user(s) from the ignored list, or cancel blocking users from watching your video in public or private chat.
June 16th, 2011· Pay per minute video chat
· Pay per minute room
· Virtual gift system
· Virtual currency system
· Private chat window improved
· Avatar size control in user list
· Added new message alert on tab
· Register/sign-in panel
· Synchronizing username and message colors
· Neater ui of the video window
· Block video viewing request
· Block private video viewing request
May 18th, 2011· Faster loading speed, better private chats and user list.
January 13th, 2011Video Chat Optimization:
· Added video effects, including animation decoration, photo frame, mask, color (mask) and text/caption adding.
· A toolbar is added to the video window to dock all the buttons: user interaction, mute, disable video, maximize, minimize, full-screen, etc.
· Enabled video window resizing: zoom in, zoom out and full screen.
· Added volume control when viewing other's video.
· The user you're watching now will have a special icon in the user list, different from those who just publish video (while you're not watching yet).
Restricted Rooms Entrance:
· The max number of rooms that a user group (admins, registered users or ) may enter simultaneously can be configured separately.
Larger Avatar:
· Users have options to choose from large, small or no avatar.
· Also, three new chat themes are added: gradient bubble, clover and sunset glow.
Flexible Input Area:
· To facilitate handwriting, the text input area in the lobby chat window can now be dragged to change height.
Personal Setting for Private Chat:
· Each chat user may configure to accept private messages from friends in the friend list, or from registered users only.
Announcement Panel Improvement:
· The announcement panel became resizable, and the URL in it is clickable. Facebook-like Chat Bar
· A Facebook-like bar can be added to dock a chat room, which will stick to visitors browser bottom as a chat room quick link.
Share to Facebook, Twitter:
· Added "share to Facebook" option in share panel, removed Yahoo invitation in "IM invitation" panel, and "share to Twitter" was integrated into the share panel too instead of in the "IM invitation" panel.
Blazing Speed to Login Admin Panel:
· The login speed of the admin panel is much faster than before.
November 5th, 2010·
New Features Highlight
Separate Video Windows:
· The pop-up video windows are enhanced so that they are separated from each other.
· A video window can be dragged anywhere within the chat area.
· The video docks and popup mode can be easily switched from each other, in the chat user option panel.
· Dock to popup, it takes effect instantly. While popup to dock, will only work for the new video windows instead of the current ones.
· Video docks (at top, bottom, left, right) will have a quick button, to pop-out or pop-in the video windows directly.
· User interaction buttons are added to video windows now, such as: private chat, personal message, whisper message, send file, block, view profile.
Bug Fix:
· The bugs are fixed so that the chat performance is greatly improved.
July 26th, 2010· New features include: a brand new engine rewritten by the latest Flex technologies, faster loading speed and response time, lower traffic consumption.
· Better user experience will be delivered by multiple-room chat, dynamic skin change, a variety of themes for the chat bubble, a flexible layout (the user list can be placed at right or at left) and various of sorting order for the user list, friend list and room list.
· What's more, user and room search are added.
· The video chat is improved in three ways: the position, 4 built-in video dock ways and pop-up mode, the connection, it will be resumed automatically once got cut off due to network problems or video server restarting, and the publish setting, the video and audio can be separately controlled and a hand-free mode is added.
· Additionally, the license and modules are re-packed to 3 levels, (standard, premium and ultimate,) to fit websites of all sizes and with different goals.
June 20th, 2010· The enhanced 123 Flash Chat HTML chat client can run smoothly on iPad.
April 12th, 2010· Further improve user experience from two aspects.
· First, help panel with help text is added in the admin panel for better understanding difficult points. Second, focus location and selection function with tab key is added to certain places so as to make your operations more conveniently.
January 6th, 2010· 1. New Post Notifier Module is added (optional).
· With it, 123 Flash Chat rooms can integrate with forums and CMS systems (such as phpBB, vBulletin, IPB, Joomla! and so on). Therefore users in the chat room will get message alert for each new post, new reply or even new edit in the forum or CMS. It helps the webmaster to integrate the entire site all in one, and meanwhile helps the chat users to be practically kept posted with the dynamic update of the site.
· 2. HTML Chat is enhanced.
· The loading speed is greatly improved and both the file transfer module and the image transfer module are supported this time.
· 3. User List Panel is updated.
· More roles in the user list are now identified by their different text colors. These roles are: superadmin, admin, moderator, speaker, regular member and guest.
· 4. Moderator can be granted the power to set up the chat room settings.
· It's controlled by the admin. To do so, it improves the flexibility of managing the room and the admin can relief his or her burden of work when necessary.
· 5. Keywords searching function is added in the ban list panel.
· When a ban list is too long, it really takes time to unban an IP, a user, or a computer. With this function, it saves a lot of time for the administrator to do those jobs. What’s more, IP sorting of the ban list is improved.
· 6. Monitor panel node independent
· “Monitor panel” node is separated from the “System Management” node. It is more convenient for the administrator to monitor the relevant information and take corresponding actions.
· 7. Superadmin can decide whether the admin could view the license information.
· 8. Full time zone support is added in admin Panel.
· 9. 123 Flash Chat installation packages for Windows x64, Linux x64, MAC and MAC x64 are added.
October 19th, 2009· Grouping Admin is available & Ban function is enhanced.
August 12th, 2009Embedding Google AD setting was supported:
· 123 Flash Chat always fully considers the interest of webmasters. As the chat rooms may be the most popular place where users be attracted on site, it is a good idea to add relevant Ads there. And the Google AD will be embedded at the bottom of your chat, so it won’t much affect your users to enjoy chatting. If you need to launch such an AD to earn money, please follow the instruction in admin panel to enable it for free
· Live Show Module was added: (Optional)
· The Live Show Module can feed a website with dynamic content through a chat room. How? The conversations in a chat room synchronously display on a website with some HTML code, it's live but read-only though. Visitors will be attracted to join the chat room then. In addition, the Live Show can be widely used to add live scrolling news or site events, sport events or stock quote, etc. to the website. And there will be many more applications for you to explore. More Details
More features to spread your chat:
· Twitter invitation was added in IM invitation module
· The IM Friends Invitation Module is enhanced with new function: Twitter Invitation. Your chat can be recommended by users on twitter directly in v7.4. And all their followers would try the links to your chat room
· Share room URL functionality was supported
· A button named “Share” is added on the top of common chat client and supplies the URL to source code and HTML code. Your can easily “paste” your chat-room to any web-page such as blog or space with these code
Integrating with third-party Friend List data is supported:
· A new API is supported to integrate the hot list or buddy list on site with 123 Flash Chat’s friend list
Other New Features:
· The settings to show edit/view user profile panel were added
· The setting to show/hide change nickname suggestion when a guest enters room was added
June 23rd, 2009· Three major highlights of v7.3
· 1. Games are introduced, with this great feature enhanced, your users will become crazy for your chat. “Are you ready to rock and roll?” You can ask them and told them,” Hit the Game button now!”.
· 2. Html Chat Client has also been supported by Android on T-Mobile G1 or G2, your users may join the chat on their gPhone now!
· 3. Nickname filter feature, are you tired of the guys who has a username containing dirty words? Try v7.3, in this new version, all of the names containing such kind of words, no matter it is nickname or username, will not be available.
June 23rd, 2009· Games are introduced, with this great feature enhanced, your users will become crazy for your chat. “Are you ready to rock and roll?” You can ask them and told them,” Hit the Game button now!”.
· Html Chat Client has also been supported by Android on T-Mobile G1 or G2, your users may join the chat on their gPhone now!
· Nickname filter feature, are you tired of the guys who has a username containing dirty words? Try v7.3, in this new version, all of the names containing such kind of words, no matter it is nickname or username, will not be available.
May 18th, 2009iPhone Chat:
· iPhone is supported in the HTML/Ajax Chat edition. It is specially designed to embed a fantastic chatroom to your web page to establish connections with visitors using iPhone and runs in the browser on iPhone, so your chat users don't need to download or install anything. Only they need is a browser running on iPhone.
Integrated with 123 Live Help:
· 123FlashChat introduced a new utility to integrate your 123LiveHelp, which provides your customers a short cut to find support guy and a more leisure environment to find a solution for his problem.
· Note:123LiveHelp is a web-based live support software, it enables e-business websites to offer online call-center to visitors.
· Video/Audio Chat
· Audio chat and video chat are separated, and broadcast audio mode is also added in the new version. Now, you may chat with your buddy via microphone without activating your webcam, and you may set your chat room whether to broadcast the ongoing speeches when a user enters room.
· Traffic Statistics
· It aims to assist webmaster or administrator to learn about the traffic condition of his chat rooms in a more convenient way.
· The chat statistics contains overall traffic and specific chat traffic.
· IM Invitation
· We 123 Flash Chat introduced a IM Friends Invitation Module, which aims to make your users introduce your chat to his friends in other social community, such as MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, Hotmail,etc. While his friends to his friends too, may help you to spread your chat from mouth to mouth in a more tighten social community system.
· Enhanced Html / Ajax Chat
· A chat client utilized by plain HTML/Ajax, tidy & neat, with which no plug-in is required for your end user.
· Enhanced HTML/Ajax Chat edition integrates choice box of roomlist and gender in login panel.
November 4th, 2008· Faster Loading: The admin panel loading performance has been optimized remarkably which will offer you a much better user experience.
· More Humane Setting: Making an Audio/Video conversation in private message window would need your acceptance first.
· Improved the performance of determining whether user should be banned, muted or kicked.
Admin Panel:
· Better support to YouTube video.
· Better support to Flash Player 6, 7 and 10.
Three data APIs are added for the third party application to push the message data to the chat server through an HTTP request:
· Broadcast
· TalkMessage
· SystemMessage
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· Faster Loading: The admin panel loading performance has been optimized remarkably which will offer you a much better user experience.
· More Humane Setting: Making an Audio/Video conversation in private message window would need your acceptance first.
September 9th, 2008· 1) Faster Loading: the chat room loading has been optimized remarkably which offers much better user experience.
2) Flood Protection: Admin is equiped with the following weapons in the war against the attackers:
· - "ban computer", other than the traditional ban IP and ban user, admin can now ban a computer thoroughly to eliminate the abusers from the chat room.
· - "ban for certain time", the length of time to get ban overturned can be defined each time, as well as the reason.
· - add "ban computer" to kick, to save time and save you the trouble.
· - mute user: admins and moderators can automatically or manually mute/unmute some annoying users.
· Mute a user means to disable him from sending messages for a duration of time.
· 3) File Transfer (optional): users may transfer files in the private chat windows, the file format and the entitled user types to perform the file transfer can both be predefined by admin.
Moreover, a brief checklist of the changes:
· --Chat Client--
· 1) File transfer is enabled
· A file transfer chat module is added, (optional)
· 2) Mute user function is added
· a. Admin and moderator can mute a user in the room
· b. Auto flood prevention is enabled by default
· 3) Ban Enhancement
· a. Add ban computer ID function
· b. Add ban expired time function
· c. Add ban reason function
· 4) Kick Enhancement, kick a user computer ID automatically
· 5) Font style option is added
· 6) User can be baned or kicked simply from the "enter room" or "quit room" notification message.
· 7) Admin Panel
· a. Ban list Enhancement
The following options can now be easily configured in the visual Admin Panel:
· b. File transfer
· c. Chat client font color
· d. Whether to display the whisper option
· e. Whether to display the "* says to *" option
· f. Send notification on the closing of the private message window or not.
· 8) Lite Chat Client is added
· a. A floating mini chat window is available with multiple skins, which only takes limited space and can communicate with the main chat client directly.
· b. And there is a "full screen" button on the lite client too.
July 9th, 2008· Handwriting is enabled and and data transmission is speeded up.
May 16th, 2008· Chat Client
· HTML Chat
· HTML edition is available as an alternative chat client.
· Open Live Demo
· Lite Chat Client
· Lite chat clients are available with multiple color schemes.
· Open Lite Demo
· Admin Panel Enhancement
· 80% configurations which were originally controlled by the XML files can now be done in the Admin Panel more conveniently.
· Ban Offline Users
· It is enabled to ban an offline user in the admin panel of the chat client.
· Bug Fix
· Fixed the reconnection bug.
· Chat Server
· 3 data APIs are added for the third party application to get the chat server data through an HTTP request.
· A more secure mechanism is added to prevent the attacks of some hacking tools.
April 15th, 2008· The way to play YouTube video inside the chat room is updated, responding the YouTube changes
· The flaw that two dots in a domain name will fail the license key verification process was fixed.
· The HTTPS URL authentication is supported in the database integration now.
January 15th, 2008· Debuts Chat Room Remote Controller (MSN edition) as an optional tool
· Module control becomes more powerful
· Avatar chat enhancement
· License control
· Bug fix
November 8th, 2007· The visual avatar chat module is released.
· New way to launch PM
· New time notation
July 14th, 2007· The new offering adds a user-friendly graphic admin panel and a new beta skin.
As an admin, New Admin Panel enhancements enable you:
· change admins password directly in the admin panel
· upload logo and change directly
· edit filter words instantly in the admin panel
· More New Features
· Changes of Version 6.7 (2007.07.13)
· More functions in admin panel are added, in standard version.
· A new skin added, its more fashionable and neat.
May 28th, 2007· A buddylist tab is added next to the userlist tab.
· Registered users are entitled to add registered users to the buddylist and get buddies' status: online/offline.
· Add or remove buddies.
· Private chat with buddies.
· A Mac OS shell 'fcserver_mac.sh' in the Linux install package is added.
· Some bugs of the white-board module are fixed.
· Some bugs of the A/V module are fixed.
· Some bugs of the image-transfer module are fixed.
April 6th, 2007· White Board Module is added, optional;
· Image Transfer Module is enhanced;
· Management privilege is enhanced;
· Bugs fixed.
November 1st, 2006· Font size function of message added: interface added for customizing user's profile; server performance enhanced, ect
August 29th, 2006· Lite chat client added;
· Smiley and text mix together;
· Chat log has html and text formats;
· Performance enhanced
May 25th, 2006· Video chat function bandwidth control added. Predefined message added. flashEmotion& Animated backgrounds added. auth-url enhanced with multilingual support. Bug fix& Performance enhanced.
April 14th, 2006· Video chat function bandwidth control added. Predefined message added. flashEmotion& Animated backgrounds added. auth-url enhanced with multilingual support. Bug fix& Performance enhanced
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