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Re: Show HN: Drop-In Chat – Chatify your app

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Post by ahochhaus »

lostsock wrote: post #2

I don't have a use for this right now but it looks like a nice and simple solution. Not that I necessarily think I would need to but is it possible for the webmaster to get logs of the chats?

One of the app authors here. We did this for YC hacks and ran out of time (30 hours). At this point we don't store the chats for anything but we plan on adding that soon. At that point, the admin should be able to search.

Please let us know if we can do anything to improve the app for a possible use case for you.

Re: Show HN: Drop-In Chat – Chatify your app

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Post by lostsock »

ahochhaus wrote: post #3
lostsock wrote: post #2

I don't have a use for this right now but it looks like a nice and simple solution. Not that I necessarily think I would need to but is it possible for the webmaster to get logs of the chats?

One of the app authors here. We did this for YC hacks and ran out of time (30 hours). At this point we don't store the chats for anything but we plan on adding that soon. At that point, the admin should be able to search. Please let us know if we can do anything to improve the app for a possible use case for you.

The only thing I can think of right now would be a way to theme it. Just being able to change the colour of the solid bar would be nice.

Re: Show HN: Drop-In Chat – Chatify your app

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Post by ahochhaus »

lostsock wrote: post #4
ahochhaus wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the app authors here. We did this for YC hacks and ran out of time (30 hours). At this point we don't store the chats for anything but we plan on adding that soon. At that point, the admin should be able to search. Please let us know if we can do anything to improve the app for a possible use case for you.

The only thing I can think of right now would be a way to theme it. Just being able to change the colour of the solid bar would be nice.

Thanks! We will add CSS styling to the configuration options in the DIC variable. Let us know if you think of anything else.

Re: Show HN: Drop-In Chat – Chatify your app

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Post by Walkman »

ahochhaus wrote: post #3
lostsock wrote: post #2

I don't have a use for this right now but it looks like a nice and simple solution. Not that I necessarily think I would need to but is it possible for the webmaster to get logs of the chats?

One of the app authors here. We did this for YC hacks and ran out of time (30 hours). At this point we don't store the chats for anything but we plan on adding that soon. At that point, the admin should be able to search. Please let us know if we can do anything to improve the app for a possible use case for you.

A public chat channel where everybody can write and read would be nice!

Re: Show HN: Drop-In Chat – Chatify your app

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Post by ahochhaus »

Walkman wrote: post #6
ahochhaus wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the app authors here. We did this for YC hacks and ran out of time (30 hours). At this point we don't store the chats for anything but we plan on adding that soon. At that point, the admin should be able to search. Please let us know if we can do anything to improve the app for a possible use case for you.

A public chat channel where everybody can write and read would be nice!

Thanks Walkman. That is a good idea. We had thought of group chats and chat rooms but a public "broadcast to all" option is interesting too. Kind of like a default room that everyone is in. Is that what you are saying?

Re: Show HN: Drop-In Chat – Chatify your app

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Post by Walkman »

ahochhaus wrote: post #7
Walkman wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A public chat channel where everybody can write and read would be nice!

Thanks Walkman. That is a good idea. We had thought of group chats and chat rooms but a public "broadcast to all" option is interesting too. Kind of like a default room that everyone is in. Is that what you are saying?

I thought about channels, but the first would be a "public" channel where everybody joins by default and it cannot be deleted.

Re: Show HN: Drop-In Chat – Chatify your app

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Post by ahochhaus »

scrollaway wrote: post #8

What does this use in the backend? Is this xmpp-based? Is it open source?

The back end is golang. The client server messaging protocol is BrowserChannel/WebChannel.

https://code.google.com/p/libevent-browserchannel-server/wik...

We open sourced the BrowserChannel library here:

https://github.com/samegoal/wc

And have a chat room demo app here:

https://github.com/samegoal/wcchat

The code we used for this particular site isn't Open Source yet. We are still trying to figure out what we want to do with it before we make that decision.

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