Is this open-source? If it is could you post a link to a public repo. Thanks :)
Author here. Yes of course - https://github.com/goniltalk/niltalk PS: The "source" link is in the footer of the website as well.
My apologies for being so unobservant :)
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disposing of the room does remove it and kick everyone out, indeed. And then the link is invalid. Neat. According for the privacy page, it's all living in RAM only, so in theory there is no logging ( https://niltalk.com/pages/privacy ). Guess we can check the code and see for ourselves, of course.
The dispose button is far too inviting where it is. I started to click it thinking it was the submit button till I read the text. Perhaps put it somewhere top right or someplace other than right beside the input box, also, it's kind of weird that there is no admin for the forum, so any participant can delete it I assume? Cool project though.
Yes, that's by design. These rooms are meant to be completely ephemeral and private amongst small groups of peers. It's critical to ensure that anyone who is connected is able to quickly dispose of the room for security / privacy reasons. Once a room is created, there is no "admin" or "host" per se, just a short lived private space.
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#15And this is secured how exactly?
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#17And this is secured how exactly?
Password-protected and no public listing, I assume. Nothing on secure data transfer, though.
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#18Nice idea, sadly only as secure as https.
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#19This is an awesome service. Thanks for making it available to everyone. Can I ask what the use case is for this? I talk to my friends using FB messenger or Google chat and my customers using a chat widget on our site, so I'm curious when I would use this.
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#20I'm curious to see if this takes off, how long before the powers-that-be start to say something.
If the powers-that-be are annoyed, they'll just require the Niltalk operators to log the messages. It's not like they're encrypted end-to-end.