I am in the early planning stages for a chat plugin that fulfills the goals mentioned here . When the initial version of the plugin is created I will create a new topic, however this topic is a good place to think about how this plugin will work. At this stage I’m thinking the plugin will have the f…

‘4’ and ‘5’ are both on the very top of my Discourse chat wishlist, but I don’t think they’re critical for a v1.0. If anything, ‘5’ should come before ‘4’. meta.discourse.org is the most natural place to test the prototype of such a chat (as we did with Babble), and the sub-community most amenable …

Right, so the mvp would include the following: A chat topic type. Personally, I think we should add a new Topic Archetype : chat, adding to the existing archetypes: regular, private_message and banner. A significant difference in the backend between Babble and Quick Messages is that @gdpelican has …

I’ve gotten a bit of a start on this, which is up on the full-page-chat branch on the babble repo . Here is a screenshot: (it’s not that pretty yet :dancer:) [image] In response to the MVP prompts: A chat topic type: I’m happy to move to a ‘chat’ archetype if it’s necessary. Autosizing single l…

Sweet! Sorry for being absent here. I was in DC, then my dad was in NYC so I was showing him around etcetera etcetera… Will get cracking on working-in with you presently.

I’d like to test a chat on my community. People ask me about it every day!

@gdpelican I just pushed a new Babble branch full-page-chat-discovery to demonstrate how I’m thinking on how the frontend should work. I think that, rather than having a completely separate view, the chat stream should exist as a sub-route of Discovery, taking advantage of the Discovery navigation,…

Really excited about this. Do you think having the chat live on the bottom right of the screen where there is a lot of space would be possible?

Sweet! I have this on my list for tomorrow. :dragon:

This is awesome work, thanks! Some thoughts: I wondered while playing about the way we differentiate between a ‘category’ and a ‘group’ chat. Here’s a quick mockup for something that feels intuitive to me: Group chat: [image] Category chat: [image] ‘Chat’ archetype seems simple and cool.…

Speccing out a full page chat plugin

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gdpelican (James Kiesel) October 13, 2016, 6:09pm 7

Sorry for the delay on this folks; Angus and I are both working on other sweet Discourse things at the moment, but we’ll get back on this train soon!

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Speccing out a full page chat plugin

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