I have been using Jbolo for the last 2 months and it works great with a few exceptions, their customer service is outstanding and they go out of their way to help you.

Thank you for this excellent chat
The mighty touch / people touch integration is very good
thank you

Works great and great support from TechJoomla

Was looking for an instant msg for a while and then this. So far works just like facebook. The new bar really helps user navigation for Jomsocial too, as can be difficult using all modules or adding extra menus.

Great, and it works fine, all users in the community happy and satisfied.
There are similarities with Chat on Facebook.

After fighting with just about every other program, paid or free, this is a breath of fresh air. Plug and Play. I'm actually communicating with my wife more just because this works so well and felt compelled to write a review. Thanks for the awesome programming!

Although the idea of Jbolo its self is fantastic, and well done to its developers - but it has gone out with very little thought about the future.

When the instant messaging module is on the side of your Joomla page and there's 3 or 4 people logged in that is in your connections.. that's fine. It's great. It looks neat, you click on their name and chat.

...But what if you have a big site, like myself, where people have 20-30+ friends in their connections? Jbolo then stretches the page downwards displaying every single friend who is online, rather than showing maybe 5-6 and then minimizing the rest of the module.

The alternative of course is to buy JBolo with the new "FB-style bar"... but people want to come to your site because it's your site. If they wanted to chat on Facebook they'd go to Facebook.

The FB bar doesn't work, anyway. It simply shows a little tab saying "chat".. it doesn't say how many people are online.

If you want a Joomla instant messenger with a bar at the bottom that feels less FB-Cloney and shows how many of your friends are online in the actual tab, go for 123webmessenger.

I give 10/10 for JBolo its self, the idea that is. But 1/10 for forward thinking.

Somebody didn't use their brain and didn't stop for a second to say "hang on, what if there's 20/30 people online? It's going to display a big list of users down the side". Because of this reason I've had to disable the module and tomorrow will be cancelling my subscription.

Big extension and wonderful support. Now i have on my website a real professional chat. Very easy to install and very fast the support.

Alex

This easy-to-use add-in for a community Joomla site adds just the flair and functionality necessary to keep users communicating and engaged. It's by far the best chat tool I've evaluated and it integrates so well.

The JBolo! team also did a great job customizing the application to our site per our specifications for integration with other third-party components (at an additional cost, of course, but worth it).

The only suggestion I had for them was to make the look and feel more customizable via CSS, since the design is rather rigid as of the current release. However, I'm told that they've added this to their development schedule, so I enthusiastically give this software 5 stars!

Seems like a great product. I've purchased several "nice ideas" from Techjoomla. We have a professional site and overall the concepts have been in-line with what we wanted to accomplish. we've purchased at least 3 modules and support doesn't exist so you have to make the modules work on your own.

Works exactly as advertised. Super easy to install and works great.

The only features I wish it had:
-Ability to tell if a user has logged out
-Chat Logs
-Free

Mine is a small-but-growing community site for foreigners in Nanjing China. For us, chat is not a main feature, but rather a small enhancement, of the overall ‘social networking’ dynamic that we are trying to build upon.

Enter jBolo. Installation is a breeze: I installed the component, a module, and 2 plugins. To test, I opened up one browser in Safari, one in Firefox, and logged in as two different users in each window. Wow! It works right out of the box, with a look and feel very similar to Gmail and Facebook chat.

Great component and a very reasonable price. Well done!

Have you ever been logged in to your site and noticed that a friend of yours was logged in as well...ever wanted to get their attention? This add-on is awesome. Displays who is online, with the click of a button you can send them a message no matter what page of your site they are on (even if there on a page where the chat isn't displayed). This app is very much worth every penny! I would recommend this app to everyone!

The only suggestion I would have to make to the authors, it would be great if you would add a "send" button to the bottom of the chat window.
A few times I have run in to a problem when I press the enter key and it drops to the next line instead of actually sending the message. (IE & FireFox). It happens on such a rare occasion though its not really a problem.

I have tried a couple other simple chat extensions for my site and this one works the best. It's great for a site where chatting isn't the main reason people come to the site. Mainly because the chat is on every page if some one starts talking to you. Along the same lines as gmail chat and the chat on facebook. The support was awesome. Unlike so many other components, this one's author provides excellent support. Money well spent.