This webchat is an old idea. Back in 1998 a friend of mine showed me a concept of a webchat, built using C. The ideas was good, and a very interesting project. I was very interested, but at that time I wasn't able to put it to work.

But time passes, and then I decided to make it work. At first I was thinking in building a new company around this project, but then I decided to release it under GPL.

Why another webchat? Because I'd like to build a high-performance webchat, able to accept thousands of users connected to the same room (it happens in web-interviews), I saw a non-GPL PHP webchat crash with 30 users. I think that it could be a good option, not only as a product, but also by developing interesting conceptions when handling users on-line connected through a HTTP communication link.

Where are we? Well, we means me, I am developing this project practly alone. I had some help, but they're gone, basicaly due to my incapacity to keep continuous track of this project. Although I still have lots of hits and downloads, probably due to the concepts developed by me and my contributors.

Will it continue? Yes. I'm still having some problems when running cchatd, I don't even have a stable version, and usually have core dump problems. To tell the truth there was a stable version, but I inserted a parser that is not as stable as the old alpha version :o/

What can I do? Well, this is a free software project, and anybody can help, I mean, I'll be very proud to receive help. Basicaly our first version v0.1 is almost done, I only need to stop this parser instability.

For those who want to contact me about this project, please, it'll be my pleasure.

cchatd home page
cchatd sf.net project page
my email: mazza at altern dot org