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« on: February 23, 2024 @636.33 »

i recently finished making lightchat, which is an alternative instant(ish?) messaging protocol succeeding my earlier project, chat2me, which was getting far too complicated for what it was!

i'm a fan of terminals over GUIs, but i've been working on a web client as the latter which looks like this.

the protocol is pretty different to chat2me's. all you need is the key for the server to be able to message - formats aren't standardized (so you don't even need to provide a username!). also, the entire chat file is served publicly - so anyone can get message history but can't post without a key - kind of like a forum. still, i'm looking forward to (hopefully) using this as my main digital communications medium for the rare instances i do.

if anyone's interested, you can find my email at sbcv.co.uk if you'd like the source code :P
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2024 @566.96 »

Ah this is cool! I did promise people a forum chat system last year but IRC just didn't work out for us.

Maybe you'd be interested in colabing on one  :omg:

Primarily what Id like is:
  • A simple chat that is like a big version of the shoutbox and can be accessed via a terminal, a web interface and ideally a mobile-optimised web interface.
  • It should be able to sync with the shoutbox in some way.
  • It should only allow messages from logged-in forum members.
  • It should support links and forum-style emotes if possible.
  • It should just be very reliable and low maintenance.
  • Extra: It should allow each member to have their own room, that they can embed like an iframe.

I can provide you with a POST based api that will do things like - securely manage logins, get and send shoutbox messages, get member CSS and text styling so they can theme their room etc.
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2024 @460.67 »

thanks!

i'd love to collab on that! interdevice communication is a special interest of mine :)

i write all of my programs in plain C - are you happy with that? i also write all of my own libraries (for networking, io processing & validation etc.) - so you wouldn't need to install loads of dependencies.

not sure if you'd want to work on the front end? lightchat works by serving a closed connection HTTP file and then parsing a GET request (because HTML forms are a nightmare!) for a message. i could probably learn how to work with POST, though! :o

anyway, i'll start thinking about how i'll structure things and respond to this thread a little later once i figure things out!
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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2024 @998.04 »

This sounds cool! Can you get it anywhere?
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2024 @450.32 »

This sounds cool! Can you get it anywhere?

all of the source code is available if you email me at jadepryvian+melonland@disroot.org!

you can use any stream-based socket binary as a client (tested with netcat on a RPi 0W running piCore 14.0); there's also a demo web interface i'm working on which i have the source for!
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« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2024 @760.73 »

I'm excited to see the Web interface eventually! Hopefully that'll make it less difficult should I want to get my friends to switch to it. :)
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« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2024 @506.93 »

I'm excited to see the Web interface eventually! Hopefully that'll make it less difficult should I want to get my friends to switch to it. :)

thanks! everything's nearly set up - just bug fixing atm!

i recently realized that my underlying networking library has a bug where it doesn't check to see if a peer is still connected when sending data which can crash the whole application :s

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Ah this is cool! I did promise people a forum chat system last year but IRC just didn't work out for us.

i know i've already replied to this, but just updating that this is next on my programming to-do list!
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