@angus and I had a nice time yesterday hacking on this thing; we’re getting close to a first stopping point, after which we’ll encourage folks to install it and play around a little. Here’s a gif of the existing functionality:
Creating a category chat
Having a chat in full page mode
We’ve also added a site setting which allows toggling between full page mode and the shoutbox style plugin which exists currently.
If you really want to be on the bleeding edge, you can follow along with the following clone url:
git clone -b full-page-chat https://github.com/gdpelican/babble.git
And select ‘enable full page chat mode’ in the plugin settings.
But I couldn’t recommend throwing this onto a live instance just yet.