Hmm... I'm not sure if it's the chatroom. I know I got the message before it was up & running. Of course, it wasn't as frequent as it is now, but still...

Something else had to be doing it before.



But honestly, if I get this message one more time I'll scream. It makes for a horribly unpleasant viewing experience. :(

I remember getting this every so often back in March ansd April, but I haven't seen the message or the error for close to 2 months now for me. Weird. But it is a pain at times when you want to check out the forums and...ya can't. When Big Boss finishes up his exams for the summer here today, I'm sure he'll be all on this and help us out.

A flash-chat is a variation to what we have now, however it wouldn't run off our current server, and is plentiful of various features. A user can customize font colour/style, they can assign emoticons to their names so it'll show when they post, they can change the way they see a background... etc. It's got a very nice user-friendly interface too, and is pretty cool in design. The best feature of it being that it wouldn't run off the server.

However our current chat, I believe, is not a 'finished' design. We'll be getting the full version no doubt, and I don't know whether that will have some way of decreasing server-usage. This chat would be fine if we could get unlimited hosting though...

The full version will, from my understanding, only add support for multiple channels at once. Meaning you could be in several channels at once.
This will INCREASE server usage, not DECREASE it.

The reason why the chat is causing these messages is that its AJAX, which means its a constant connection to the server.
Basically, for every single user online, it constantly asks the server if there's any new data (chat messages). The server resource usage increases exponentially with the number of users online.