Beta Testers!

[Raymond]

Hello, As efc was busy and we have agreed on many things for the Forgo Instant Messenger. Which the Developers at GamersHideOut is creating. All members of ForumPromotion will become beta testers!

On the Day of the beta release which is not planned yet. Every member will get a message either from me or efc stating a code you can enter on the website we are working on and can download the beta for free!

More likely the message will come from me.

So why our instant messenger?

Glad you asked!

As many instant messengers like MSN allow such things as news chat rooms ect...

Well we will be working along side of Efc about adding more features that ForumPromotion can have.

Some features I am talking about our listed below.

1. Advertising your website by creating topic from the messenger.

2. Sending PM's to someone on FP from the messenger.

3. Top sites list listed in the messenger.

Those are some of the major things it will be integrated with.


Also later on probably in beta phase 2 will come when your banners are advertised on ForumPromotion it is instantly added to the instant messenger under advertisements! Hows that for service!


Also let me know what kinds of things you would like to see come to this project.

 

[ℓєσ gнσѕт]

So youre building your own Instant Messenger? Or are you using some sort of scripts and your just adding on to them? Either way, ill be glad to beta test it. Sounds like a great idea with the features, cant wait to use it -🙂-

 

[Raymond]

Nope, Making it from scratch 🙂 As it would be just as much work editing someone elses.

 

[spyka]

What's it written in?

 

[Raymond]

mostly in c++ and some notepad for html

 

[Null-11]

That sounds awesome! I would love to beta test that any day. ~cheesey_grin~

I can't wait for the final release. Any idea of a time frame for the final creation?

 

[Kino]

Yeah I'll help test it. Best of luck, hope this project gets some place!

 

[Raymond]

None of us at GHO currently know when this project will be done. I will not set a release date yet. Because we cannot hold to it right now. All I know is the beta should be coming out very soon.

 

[Murder he Wrote]

What is the security like? Are passwords encrypted? What plans to do have to market / promote it?

It's an enormous task competing with the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo, I don't see how a 16 year old has the coding ability, the finance or time to code and manage a project on the scale of an instant messenger with the features you have planned.

Will this be open to members outside of ForumPromotion?, and more importantly why would anyone want to use your instant messenger if they can already list something in the topsite, send PMs and promote a forum with their ForumPromotion account.

If I were to spend time BETA testing it I would need to know the following:

1) Will you and you 'Developers' be committed? What is to say if things go badly you won't scrap the project?
2) Please provide details on the security you're using. Are passwords encrypted? Will you be able to see it?
3) Once you release the final verion, how are you going to get it seen, and how much are you prepared to spend marketing it?

I'm sure you can appreciate my concerns. I rely on Messenger a great deal to communicate with clients and I get the impression not everyone will have the "Forgo messenger". I'm going to be completely honest, I don't see this working out for you. Fair play for giving it a go and I hope you prove me wrong, but in all honesty I think this won't take off quite how you're expecting it to.

Sorry.

 

[Raymond]

Yes, I can see your opinions however. I have tons of money to invest in this project. Everything will be 100% safe also, Like Trillian is this messenger will be able to message people using msn yahoo and aim...