any ETA/guess on when 1.0 might be released?

[edpollard]

I love the chat program and have played with the demo quite a bit on my site. Without private messages and the moderator abilities I can't really go live with this though. I'm not trying to be pushy at all but I need to make some decisions soon about what I am going to implement and I'd love to include this project and maybe start contributing ideas/tweaks sometime after the 1.0 release.

[phpfreechat]

I'm working hard on 1.0 release, it takes me all my free time.
I'm fixing last bugs before a first pre1 release. This pre1 will provide private chat without moderation.
Moderation will implemented in a second step in pre2.
I hope to have the time this weekend to make a big step ahead.

[edpollard]

that is awesome news... this really is a very nice application. Hopefully I can contribute at some point. But i'd like to use it in production for a bit before diving in. Ans of course since i work in open source for Big Blue I will have ot get approval from my management to even look at the source