FLASH: Shockfusion - chat/bulletin board??

[james]

Does anyone have a clue as to how the chat and

bulletin board are done on the shockfusion site?


Data-driven, generator (though I hear they don't use

Gen), text files?


I noticed the chat will keep the last ## messages

there no matter what, so they must be stored in a data

file (text/database)


And the board is most likely data driven.  


Where I'm really lost is how do they know how many

posts to disply, which one is clicked, etc - since

it's all variable?


And it seems that if they are constantly

reading/writing to these files (especially chat) that

it would just pound the heck out of the server.



I have no problem doing all of this in ASP/SQL, but

I'm a bit confused when it comes to the flash

integration.  Any help, tips, links, etc would be most

helpful.




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