Pichat Features
Pichat is a software to communicate and exchange information. Its primary goals
are comfort, simplicity, privacy, stability and free information exchange. Here
is a summary of the main features:
- Peer-to-peer chat (P2P) - everyone can run an own chat server
- Smileys, graphics and colors - use smileys to express emotions, to laugh and swear
- Configurable sound effects - get notified when something happens, wake up a user
- Contact list for friends - stay in contact with your friends and co-workers
- Builtin webchat - no software to install, works right out-of-the-box
- Builtin web server - share files with friends and host your web site
- Plugin support - extend the chat with additional features
- Multiple chatrooms - chatrooms with moderators or secret codes
- Multi language support - users can talk in their own language
- Multi platform support - runs on Linux, BSD and Windows
- Highly customisable - easily integrated and adjusted to your web design
- No crapware bundled - 100% free of unwanted software and advertising
What can you do with the chat? Pichat fits well as private chat for friends, as a
community chat system and for business support. There are regular updates with
more features.
For a quick demo please visit one of our webchats...
- tabs for multiple chat windows
- smileys, graphics, colors, text formatting and links
- configurable sound effects
- contact list for friends
- automatic idle away (if you don't say anything)
- automatic lag detection (server ping time)
- do not disturb mode (no more sound effects)
- sticky window mode (chat window stays on top)
- multiple color schemes with optional color scheme packs
- multiple languages with optional language packs
- English/German/Swedish language included per default
- nickname highlight with optional blinking notification
- nickname completion in chat input
- input history with recent typed-in text lines
- chatrooms and users display in chat window
- optional time stamp in chat window
- optional text filtering in chat window
- aliases for common chat commands
- status dialog with chat activity and user number
- options dialog for basic chat settings
- experimental 3D visualisation in OpenGL
- peer-to-peer-chat (P2P)
- conference rooms and moderated chatrooms
- registered users with reserved nicknames
- visitors with restricted access
- private messages between users (can be disabled for certain users)
- chat admins with ability to ban and remove users
- compressed chat data transfer
- activity and traffic statistics
- chat status available as web page and RSS feed
- chat server logfile with optional hourly status
- message of the day (shown when someone enters the chat)
- low CPU and memory consumption with hundreds of users
- automatic detection of chats in local network (LAN)
- automatic chat server reconnect and nickname regain
- automatic safeguard on user names with too many failed login attempts
- automatic download of software updates
- configurable chat actions to invoke external programs
- multi platform support for Linux, BSD and Windows
- builtin web server, no additional software required
- web server with persistent connections (HTTP 1.1)
- web server with on the fly compression (for uncompressed media types)
- web server with combined logfile format (including referer and user agent)
- web server with basic authentication (for password protected files)
- web server with partial file transfer and directory browsing
- web server with GET/HEAD/POST/OPTIONS/TRACE methods
- builtin webchat with graphics, colors, text formatting and links
- webchat in pure HTML/XHTML, no PHP/Flash/Java required
- webchat is covering wide range of web browsers including text browsers
- webchat makes use of modern web browsers with CSS, DOM and JavaScript
- webchat is highly customisable via templates (web page parser included)
- text chat for simple chat clients, available in RAW/ANSI/XML format
- text chat for telnet with interactive login and colors
- HTTP proxy support for users behind a firewall (e.g. at office)
- plugin support for additional chat features
- internal software consistency checks with status display of software components
- internal event log and more debug information for trouble shooting
- builtin crash report with register/stack dump for source code traceability
- demo chat server in Europe and the USA
- web site with screenshots, documentation, plugins, examples and tools
- software development kit (SDK) for developers
- technical support, installation help and consulting