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New Feature: Add your own group chat Selfie

Group chat interaction is making the world small. A lot of time during a group discussion, it is hard to imagine how a chatter looks like. Now you do not need to, you may put a face to a virtual name.

News: We are happy to announce a new feature that let chatter add their own selfie using their pc camera. The process is pretty easy (see below). Note, you will need to have a camera connected to your PC or laptop (at the moment this option is not available in the mobile version of RumbleTalk).

Step 1 : Login

Login to the chat room by clicking the text area. Choose to login type
Guest, Facebook, Twitter or Your own custom logins. Only once you are logged-in, you can see the small paper click icon.

Step 2 : Click on the paper click icon

upload group chat selfie

Clicking on the icon will open a small window with several options.

Step 3 : Click on the Camera icon

Click on the camera icon. You will need to approve the usage your pc camera.
This is a common browser request when an application wishes to use your camera.

Step 4 : Choose the best group chat selfie and upload.

Take a group chat selfie until you are happy with the results and then upload it to the chat room. It then takes seconds and the group chat selfie will show and shared with all the chatters in the chat room.

We continue to add features to our group chat room service so your discussions with your community will be extra valuable.

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New Feature: Control the type of sounds in your chat room

It is time to share with you that the new sound notification feature is ready for all premium customers. Now, you can control what type of sound will be played in different situations.

Some of you prefer that, when a new user will login to the chat room, a different type of sound will be played than when he/she send a message.

Some wish that a private message will have a unique sound and some wish that, when a user leaves, a unique sound will be played.

In the list below, you will learn what type of sounds you can control via the RumbleTalk chat room admin panel.

  • Message – A sound of a text/audio or video message.
  • Private message – When a user sends a personal message to another member in the chat room.
  • Notice – System messages sound.
  • Users Join – When a user enters the chat room, a special sound will be played.
  • User Left – When a user leaves the chat room, a special sound will be played.

chat sounds

To change the chat sounds, here’s what you need to do.

sound notifications

  1. Click Settings > Multimedia.
  2. Choose which notification you want to change, and select the new option from the dropdown.
  3. You can also preview the new sound by clicking the play button beside it.
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Compare between Chat Service and Chat Software for radio shows?

You spend time and money in building your online radio show website. You have a great player software to play your audio and music. But you wish to have a way to engage those listeners that like what you have to offer. The best way is using a chat-room next to your live audio stream. This will allow you to easily talk to your listeners, get their remarks, feedbacks and change the playlist if needed.

Chat rooms are a great way to create a live vibrant community.
It becomes very easy this days to add one to a website. There are many options in the market. Now, in essence, you will need to choose between 2 type of chats and once decided this will make pinpointing your preferred vendor  easier.

  1. Type 1 : Install a chat room software on your server .
  2. Type 2 : Add a hosted chat room where you do not need to install anything on your servers.

Chat software

The pros and cons of each choice are detailed below.

Chat Room Service 

With chat service, you add a small piece of code to your HTML page (snippet).
And you are done. All is being taken care of.

PROS

  • Easy to add
  • Create several chats with a click.
  • No upgrades are needed, all is being done by the chat room service providers.
  • No servers to maintain.
  • No extra man power is needed.
  • No performance issues when the server is loaded with users.
  • Create many chats as you like with a click.
  • You can design your own chat room style.

CONS

  • Monthly subscription to cover maintenance costs and the servers and bandwidth costs.

Installed Chat Room Software

A software is something you buy and install on your shared server or on your dedicated server.

PROS

  • One time payment normally for one chat.

CONS

  • Require installation. Not always easy.
  • If installed on the same server as your web-server, it might cause slowness to the whole site in case the chat is loaded.
  • If you use a shared hosting, you probably will not be able to install a chat as hosting companies avoid this kind of potential server load.
  • You will need to upgrade your server when a new chat/feature will be released.
  • You should keep your server maintained.
  • Make sure you have the extra man power to deal/test it.
  • Might cause performance issues on your server that might result in the upgrade to your server.
  • You may create only one chat room.

To sum it up, the logical choice would be to install a hosted chat room (meaning using a chat service) and not install a software as the world find the cloud hosted services as the future and in the long term it saves a lot of money (and frustrations).

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