2020-10-19 13:52:10 +00:00
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# Carbon Chat
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Carbon is the Matrix client for Discord refugees.
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## The dream
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Carbon's planned features, compared to Discord:
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- End to end encryption
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- $0 per-account custom emojis and custom emoji packs
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- Uses the open Matrix and Mumble systems
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- Much better IRC layout
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- Probably more
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Carbon's planned features, compared to Element:
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- Get rid of the unmanageable combined rooms list
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- Groups like Discord's guilds
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- Always have one group selected at a time
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- Synchronised membership, moderators, power levels and bans
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- Ordered channel list
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- Unread indicators
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- Add existing channels to groups
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- Pin any channel to the groups bar
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- Tidy Mumble integration to add voice channels
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- More reliable unreads
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- Per-account custom emojis (Ponies+FluffyChat integration) and custom emoji packs
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- Slightly better IRC layout
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- Probably more
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## The reality
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Carbon is currently _technically_ usable as a chat app, but is very
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early in development. These important features still need to be
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implemented:
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- Unreads
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- Chat history
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2020-10-21 08:57:38 +00:00
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- Typing indicators
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2020-10-19 13:52:10 +00:00
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- Formatting
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- Emojis
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- Reactions
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- Groups v2
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- Group management
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- Pinned channels
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- Mumble integration
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## The code
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### Building
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npm install -D
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npm run rebuild
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### Hosting
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Send the files from the `build` folder to a static file server. Apply
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a long cache-control header to everything served under `/static`, and
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no cache-control header to everything else.
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### Developing
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npm run watch
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Files will be rebuilt as you save them.
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