Carbon Chat

Carbon is the Matrix client for Discord refugees.

The dream

Carbon's planned features, compared to Discord:

• End to end encryption
• $0 per-account custom emojis and custom emoji packs
• Uses the open Matrix and Mumble systems
• Much better IRC layout
• Probably more

Carbon's planned features, compared to Element:

• Get rid of the unmanageable combined rooms list
• Groups like Discord's guilds
  • Always have one group selected at a time
  • Synchronised membership, moderators, power levels and bans
  • Ordered channel list
  • Unread indicators
• Add existing channels to groups
• Pin any channel to the groups bar
• Tidy Mumble integration to add voice channels
• More reliable unreads
• Per-account custom emojis (Ponies+FluffyChat integration) and custom emoji packs
• Slightly better IRC layout
• Probably more

The reality

Carbon is currently technically usable as a chat app, but is very early in development. These important features still need to be implemented:

• Login GUI
• Unreads
• Chat history
• Formatting
• Emojis
• Reactions
• Groups v2
• Group management
• Pinned channels
• Mumble integration

The code

Building

npm install -D
npm run rebuild

Hosting

Send the files from the build folder to a static file server. Apply a long cache-control header to everything served under /static, and no cache-control header to everything else.

Developing

npm run watch

Files will be rebuilt as you save them.