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.

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