Basic Features
- Dynamic multiple rooms. Users can create
rooms as they desire.
- Room types. Rooms can be public or private,
with free or moderated discussion.
- Administrative permissions. Four
administrative levels -- moderator, operator, administrator, and owner --
allow you to have fine-tuned control over what permissions different users
have, and where. Users can manage their own rooms by default, but you can
explicitly grant individual users privileges over main rooms and/or
system-wide.
- Administrative powers. There are a host of
functions to take care of unruly users: kick them, quiet them, evict them,
ban them, possess them, shrink them, or turn them into morons.
- Private messages and memos. Send private
messages to user(s), or send memos to off-line users for when they log
in next.
- Memo lists. Create your own "memo lists"
(mailing lists, except through memos instead of email) for subscribing
users.
- Transcripts. Users can record and download
transcripts of conversation automatically.
- Multi-lingual support. Individual users
can adjust what language instructions, error messages, etc, will appear in.
Supported languages: American English, British English, Finnish,
Norwegian, German, Japanese, and Latin, as well as the joke translations
"Hick" and "Pirate."
- Automated password recovery. Users can get
forgotten usernames and/or passwords emailed to them.
- Dice roller. Users have a dice roller
available to them in the chat room, which will roll any number of any-sided
dice on command.
- Unit converter. Users can convert between
Fahrenheit and Celsius, miles and kilometers, and more. This is useful for
multinational chat communities.
- Bots. Users can summon bots to host games
and other activities.
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User Features
Install Features
- Customize the name of the chat program.
If you wish, you can effectively replace the name RookChat with
your own name. Optionally replace the title images with your own
images.
- Set up and name rooms. While individual
chatters can create "user rooms" as they desire (which disappear when
everybody leaves), you can set up "main rooms," which are persistent rooms
moderated by the chat administration (that's you, plus whoever you choose
to grant administrative privileges to). These main rooms have their own
names that you can assign.
- Use your own advertising banners. If you
sell advertising space on your web site, you can set up the chat room to
display your own advertising banners on each page. You can also customize
how often the advertising banners refresh themselves.
- Logging. Set up the chat room to log chat
conversations to files.
- Bad word moderation. Optionally prohibit
bad words by replacing profanity with more politic alternatives. There
is a default list of bad words and their replacements, but you can
customize this list.
- Colors. Customize all the colors that
are used by RookChat to create your own look-and-feel.
Development Features
- Add new commands. - The code is organized
so that developers can add their own commands with a minimum of hassle.
- Add new bots. - A toolkit is provided to
make programming new bots as easy as possible.
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