Unlike many other instant messaging applications (e.g. MSN, ICQ, or those that use the Jabber protocol) where instant message delivery is unreliable and messages sometimes go missing without the sender knowing due to a momentary network error, or just a poorly designed communication protocol, DBabble message delivery is very reliable. When a user sends a message, it does not disappear from their screen until it has been successfully delivered to every recipient's account on the server. A connected client can not remain connected for more than a few seconds if it has not received every message waiting to be delivered to it.

DBabble Discussions can be linked to usenet (NNTP) groups and interfaced to Email

DBabble provides discussion groups that can be created by any user who has permission to do so. These are similar to usenet (NNTP) groups, and the groups can optionally be linked to pull articles from external usenet groups. DBabble can also act as an NNTP server, so that news-readers can read DBabble discussions as though they are newsgroups. Additionally, DBabble can act as an SMTP server for the purpose of accepting incoming mail intended as articles for it's discussion groups. Users are able to tell DBabble to send any new articles in specified groups to them directly via Email or as instant messages. Discussions can also be marked as private and allow only certain users to read and/or post to them.

DBabble Chat Rooms

DBabble provides chat rooms that can be created by any user who has permission to do so. A chat room can optionally be made private so that only specified users have access to it. Chat rooms can optionally be made encrypted, which means that anything said is automatically encrypted by the DBabble client so that only people listed in the 'Users Present' list can read the message. Messages in encrypted chat rooms are also digitally signed to prevent users pretending to be someone else.

Use DBabble for online support

You can use DBabble to insert links into your existing web pages so that your customers can click on a link to initiate a one on one private chat with particular DBabble users or a random online member of a particular DBabble group of users. If you are using the DBabble windows client and are either not connected to DBabble or haven't moved your mouse or typed anything on your computer recently, then the link inserted into your web page will automatically state that you are not currently available. Anything typed in these private chats can been seen by the other person as it is being typed to facilitate quick responses.

Or you can set it like this page where if a member of our DBabble support team is online when you view this page, then the top right hand corner contains an embedded DBabble private chat with us. If we are not online then a box listing some features of DBabble is displayed instead.

Server can be optionally linked to remote servers to enable interaction with remote users

DBabble chat servers can either be run as a stand-alone server, or can be linked to other servers worldwide via a master server that informs it of the location of other servers. Users are then able to communicate with users on other servers, and visit discussions and chat rooms that are hosted on other servers.

Web Pages that are easily customizable to suit your needs.

The web pages displayed to users when using the web browser interface to DBabble are easily customizable by the system administrator, to include anything they want such as advertising images and links. You can even change the name of the server and windows client from DBabble to anything you want.

DBabble Windows Client

DBabble provides a Windows client that can be downloaded from your DBabble server. This provides users with an easier to use interface, which can offer more functionality such as detecting when a user is idle, and hence probably not at their computer, and a nicer notification system for when new messages arrive, and much more. Almost every piece of text visible to non administrator users in the Windows client can be changed by the server administrator to anything you want. You can even change the name from DBabble to anything else by changing a single setting. See some screen shots, try it out yourself at http://free.dbabble.com, or read more about features of DBabble below.

The background image and color scheme used throughout the DBabble Windows client can be changed to use any .gif or .jpg image you want. The DBabble server administrator can even set the default background image and color scheme used for any downloads of the Windows client made from your server.

Can be translated to any language.

DBabble chat server can support multiple languages. DBabble provides a list of all phrases used throughout it for you to translate in to whatever languages you want. You can also use this to change the English version of any piece of text your users see in to whatever you want. This applies to both the web browser and Windows client versions of DBabble, and includes languages that don't use the same character set as English. Currently we have translations for Spanish, German, Chinese, Italian, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Russian, Dutch, and Danish available. The German, and Danish translations are complete translations for the latest release version. The Chinese, Italian, and Spanish translations are partially translated by hand and merged with machine translations. The other translations are entirely machine translations. See DBabble Languages for more details.

DBabble is used by all Netwin Staff

All Netwin staff spread over 2 cities and others working from home use DBabble for our internal instant messaging, and each version of DBabble is tested on our staff before release. This has resulted in many suggestions for improvements from our staff, which have been implemented and have made DBabble an ideal instant messaging system to use. Most Netwin staff run the Windows client, and the web browser version is also used by staff working on unix machines.

Built in advertisement feature that you disable if you want.

DBabble has a built in advertisement system that lets you specify a list of advertisement images and associated web pages on your server. Both the web browser and Windows client display random advertisements that are occasionally changed. The advertisement feature can be turned off by the server administrator if you would rather not use it.

Can support up to 10 million users with 10,000 online simultaneously on a single server