Seeking clarification re: chat policy

[essellar]

I've noticed (after seeing a couple of hinty things in the Free Hosting support forum) that chats are no longer explicitly mentioned in the ToS. This leads me to ask (for planning purposes):

Will well-behaved, resource-light chats be tolerated now (or at some point in the near future)? I would assume that even if the answer is "yes", resource monitoring would still be in full force, and people who can't play nice with the other kids in the sandbox will be given at least a time-out.

A feature I'd like to add to a [completely repurposed] site could, at times, become near enough to real-time to have been a suspendable offence under the old rules (doing SSO with an outboard host is a real pain in the ol' derriere -- and firing up an instance at Google once you've been inactive for an hour takes forever).

It'd be short-history (and probably flat-file, since I don't want to maintain a history -- nothing nefarious going on, but the name of the target audience includes the word "Anonymous" prominently) with a low update frequency. Figure a couple of hundred words per posting, one user enabled for submission at a time, with a small hard-limited group (a dozen tops) participating at any one time and an update frequency that would be in line with the expected usage pattern (certainly not more than one request per minute per user, probably once every 90 seconds would suffice, and that for a text file). I know I can write that to be very tight and light, and it would be tremendously easier for me to do it all in one spot than to spread the wealth (a site here plus an app back-end elsewhere). And the "meetings" would be twice a day for an hour max (and usually at ungodly hours, which is why the online option popped up in the first place).

Is it worth my while planning something like this for near-term deployment? I can do benchmarking and stress-testing locally to make sure it's well-behaved and bulletproof. Or will I have to wait until we've thrown enough into the kitty to pay for something with a bit more processing headroom?

Thanks for taking the time to look this over.

-- Stan

[Livewire]

Correct; Chatscripts aren't a permanent suspension anymore. They're not even in the TOS anymore, so other than resource usage concerns (and it'd take either a poorly coded script or a really popular chatbox to trip that), it should be good to go.

As always, the rest of the TOS applies, but the script itself wouldn't be the cause of the suspension

[essellar]

Thanks muchly. I'd have gone with my assumptions, but you know what they say about "assume".

Hmmm.... I can only like that. I was sure I'd up-repped enough to hit you again, but it seems I was wrong.

[Livewire]

No worries, like is plenty

And thanks for actually checking first as opposed to just doing it and possibly getting suspended - never fails to amaze me why people figure "meh, what's the worst that could happen" and then get permanently suspended