Bringing together groups of people is both powerful and challenging. It is your responsibility as a chat owner and moderator to understand the fundamentals of safe chatting. You are in control for providing a secure virtual environment for your users. It can be difficult to manage a chat room with multiple chatters, so here’s a chat type that can keep online conversations secure.

A Private Chat allows your members to converse with other members one-on-one. This means that regardless of who is online or not, members and administrators can only communicate in private conversations.

Let’s go over it further.

What are your options in a Private Chat?

Private Chat is one of the chat types in which users can only communicate with other users one-on-one.

What does this mean for administrators and non-administrators? The Private Chat option is only available for one-on-one conversations. There is no group chat. Everyone in the chat can talk to everyone else, but only in private. You can still use it for socializing and mingling. 

Group Chat versus Private Chat

If you only need to contact one person from a Group Chat, you can quickly find his name by using the user search feature. Instead of clogging up the group chat, you can send him a private message right away.

Instead of using the Group Chat, you can socialize with others in the Private Chat.

It’s similar to the Expert’s Chat in design. However, in a Private Chat, you have the ability to start a conversation with anyone.

Follow these simple steps to enable it.

1. Navigate to Settings > General and Logins.
2. Select Chat type.
3. Choose Private Chat.

Anyone can start private online conversations as long as they are logged in.

Making use of it as a social chat

Do you intend to use the Private Chat as a social chat? Then, all you have to do is make your chat available to everyone and enable all log-in options.

When someone visits your website for the first time and sees the chat, they may scroll through it. If they like the vibe of your chat, they can join at any time. They can log in using the log-in options you set up for your chat.

So, how do you go about doing that? Here’s what you should do.

1. Navigate to Settings > General & Logins.
2. Choose Login Options.
3. Mark all of the boxes next to Social Login Options and Members Login Options.

When you enable these options, anyone can join your chat room.

Everyone should speak privately to keep online conversations secure

With this, you have the most secure and adaptable way to connect with your site and chat visitors.

If you’re looking for a chat like this in the market, this is the one. It can be used not only for socializing, but also for private meetings, discussions, and anything else that requires security.

It is not only about protecting your users’ privacy, but also about protecting your own. Because you are the chat’s owner, you must avoid leaking sensitive information. Why? It’s because you need to keep the chat’s integrity. If you do not have control over what goes in and out of the chat room, your website and brand will suffer.

Advanced security features in platforms like RumbleTalk can help enforce chat rules while also keeping users safe. So, make the most of it and teach your users about safe chatting.

To use the Private Chat, you must first sign up on the RumbleTalk website. You can also send a message to support@rumbletalk.com if you want a free demo and see all the available features when you create a RumbleTalk account. We’re looking forward to your message!

Online communities are stronger than ever. This is where we connect, support each other, and celebrate our successes. Each community is unique. Each world was created to highlight your particular culture.

Furthermore, even for non-members, searchable online communities are an invaluable source of first-hand information — don’t we all like to read user reviews when purchasing a product?

The value of online communities for both members and non-members cannot be overstated. Nonetheless, even the most popular communities have noticed a trend for users to leave and form closer-knit sub-communities on other platforms using other real-time messaging apps.

The reason was quickly discovered. Online communities in their basic format failed to provide one of the required functions — a private conversation space.

In this post, we will analyze why community members may seek chatting options and how online communities can address this issue and retain their user base by incorporating a chat function.

What Are the Benefits of Including Real-Time Chat in Online Communities?

Communities would want to share and respond to the latest as it happens, with the internet making news constantly accessible and ever-changing.

You’ll be able to give your community a way to chat and share rich media about topics that are important to them at any time they want with real-time chat. Your platform can then be a driving force for relevant, timely conversations. This encourages users to keep all of their conversations on your platform rather than using other messaging services.

Within the platform, you’ll be able to create smaller communities, encouraging more interaction and catering to every interest and type of content.

Utilizing minisites to create online communities

Online communities lack real-time communication. They feed on forums and websites but never live chat. RumbleTalk offers both. Online communities can create minisites to do the following:

1. Create a mini page for their community website
2. Utilize online chat rooms to connect with their community

So, let’s discover on how you can create a minisite that has an embedded chat room. Let it change the way you approach your online communities.

Improve communication by using a minisite with a chat room

In this section, we’ll walk you through the steps necessary to create your own miniature website. You’ll be surprised how simple it is!

1. Sign up for a RumbleTalk account. Simply visit our website and click Sign up.
2. On your admin panel, you’ll see Pages. This will take you to another page. This is referred to as a minisite.
3. Arrange it however you want. We’ve created a default template so you don’t have to worry about what you’ll put on the page. All you have to do is adapt it to your online community.

The Pages feature assists in creating more connected communities. As there’s a chat room embedded in the minisite, members can log in and chat away. It helps to:

• Develop strong relationships. Members can drop in at any time to see who’s there and talk to each other.
• Social gatherings and events. There are numerous conversation areas, allowing everyone to make a genuine connection. Community admins can also use the YouTube link to host live events.
• Revenue potential. For special pages or topics, you can add a paywall to your chat room.

The Answer

At this point, no other platform can compete with online communities in terms of resources. The users are the key to this wealth, as they crowdsource information to create a robust and searchable repository.

However, aside from posting on forums and searching for content, online communities offer just that. This is where real-time chat can elevate the experience by encouraging interpersonal communication, interaction, and support based on the knowledge already available on the platform. It’s a fantastic combination that benefits both platform providers and users.

If you want to know more about real-time chatting and its benefits, then contact support@rumbletalk.com to get a free demo.

When you know how, customizing your chat room is simple. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the RumbleTalk admin panel to customize the look and feel of your chat room.

Why the need to customize chat rooms?

Because the chat room is a separate entity from your website, it is best to align your chat design with the overall look of your site. When the website and chat plugin are not in sync, there is a disconnect. As a result, you can easily customize your chat design with RumbleTalk’s customization features at any time.

Beginning with CSS

When you paste CSS code, it will be reflected in your group chat. Web and mobile browsers use different codes. So, check out these links for codes that you can use.

• Text style tricks using CSS
• 27 Easy Chat CSS Tricks for Designing your Own Chat Room (WEB & MOBILE)
• 11 CSS tricks to style up your mobile group chat theme

How should CSS be used?

Follow these steps if you are new to RumbleTalk or don’t know where to find the CSS option.

Navigate to Design > Visual Design.

Scroll to the bottom of the Visual Design tab.

The CSS editor is available for both mobile and web browsers.

Begin with these introductory CSS articles for web and mobile.

• Introduction to Mobile CSS
• Introduction to Web CSS

NOTE: If you return to the Visual Design tab (for example, to change background images), your code will be reset. This means you can only have one custom design, either in CSS or in Visual Design. Furthermore, it is best to leave CSS editing to the professionals to avoid making mistakes. If you don’t have a designer, you can use the links above to copy and paste the codes you need for your group chat theme.

Samples of CSS styles

• Message text borders

To add a border for all messages, the code you will need is as follows:

.message-text{
color:#fff;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black,
1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
font-weight: bold;
}

After pasting it on the editor, it will look like this.

• Username border

To add a border for all usernames, the code you will need is as follows:

.message-user-name{
font-weight: bold;
color:rgba(0,150,245,1.00);
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black,
1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}

After pasting it on the editor, it will look like this.

• Combining both border CSS styles

Why not try combining the two styles now that we’ve shown you in the examples above?

To combine them, simply paste both codes into the editor and separate them with a space by pressing Enter on your keyboard. The code should then look like this in the editor.

.message-user-name{
font-weight: bold;
color:rgba(0,150,245,1.00);
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black,
1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}
.message-text{
color:#fff;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black,
1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
font-weight: bold;
}

Here’s how it will look like when you combine the two styles.

You can do this for a variety of styles. So, try your hand at it or delegate the technical work to your designer. More tricks can be found in the articles, so choose the best one for your group chat room.

Simple customization for beginners

The Visual Design tab allows for more in-depth customization. You will notice that six subtabs can be customized.

• General
• Users List
• Chat Area
• Text Box
• Dialog Box
• Messages

Each of this corresponds to a chat room element. You can change the background image and color, as well as the text color, font size and style, and so on. Let’s change the background color in this example. Upload an image or paste an image URL in the Background Image section of the General subtab to accomplish this.

Another example would be changing the colors of the messages. You would need to select the Messages subtab for this. You will find several customization options for your message box here (how messages appear in the chat room). Let’s experiment with changing the color of each message box. In the tab below, select a message color.

Here’s what it would look like.

This is how fundamental chat customization works. All you have to do is choose or upload an image, and you’re done.

A simple method to customize your chat rooms

You can customize the appearance and feel of your chat room without the assistance of a developer. RumbleTalk is a simple platform that allows you to personalize your chat room. There are skins and CSS codes that you can use right away.

It’s a chat platform that can be easily customized for your website. To request a free demo, email support@rumbletalk.com.