FEATURES

• Choose chat type: Joomla (default) or IP.Board Shoutbox.
• A lot of customization options like shout or member name length, show or hide avatars, etc.
• Supported avatar providers: Joomla Contacts, JomSocial, CommunityBuilder, Kunena, Gravatar, EasySocial, K2, AlphaUserPoints (more can be added by request).
• Automatically or manually refresh chat window, flood control and extra permission checks to avoid spamming.
• Customizable text parser with URL shortener.
• Replace images with neat thumbnails and lightbox.
• Replace videos with links and lightbox or with embedded player (supported providers: YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, MetaCafe).
• Ban or unban members from chat (do not affect the rest of your site).
• Chat template can be easily styled with CSS (any element can be hidden, resized or colored) and language file (any text can be changed).
• Shouts Journal to manage shouts, Smileys Manager to manage smileys and Banned Journal to manage banned members.
• Shouts archive page on front-end with search and filtering options.
• Automatically delete shouts older, than X days.

WHY IS IT BETTER, THAN OTHER SIMILAR EXTENSIONS?

First of all, there're not much chat solutions for Joomla and existing ones are either too simple and ugly or overloaded with JavaScript and useless features. Smart Shoutbox is a balanced chat component with neat layout and a fairly enough scripts and features to work smoothly and almost faultlessly. We always monitoring chat and our customers' feature requests, but add only vital and really cool stuff, which will make Smart Shoutbox even better keeping it balanced. Try it for yourself and you will see, that this all is true.