Group Chat Changes

[baris]

Just merged the group-chat branch into master, it will be available in our next release which will most likely be 1.0.0.

There are some breaking changes and schema changes in this merge.

The upgrade script will go through all the chat messages and assign them to rooms. This might take a while depending on how many chats messages there are in the system. The upgrade script should show the progress in the console.

For all the changes check out this PR https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/pull/3968/files

[frissdiegurke]

1.0.0 finally it's getting serious... xD

[Kowlin]

Oh wauw, that looks amazing. Is there a ability to name group "rooms"?

[baris]

@Kowlin Not yet, but it is something I will add before 1.0.0.

[Shard]

Any chance this can link with a BOSH based XMPP?

[Ali]

@baris 8 ay önce attığım mesajlar halen duruyor...
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The chat would be more useful with these capabilities: remove, archive, mark as read/unread, ignore IMO.

[sanatisharif]

@baris A good idea is that like telegram indicate that a message has been read by the user or not!

[henrywright]

@baris you rockstar! This is such a killer feature!

[Kowlin]

@sanatisharif I can see that working out to be honest.

[julian]

It's been quite a long time in coming I guess @baris just needed some of that fresh Turkish air to inspire him.

[henrywright]

@julian have you guys thought about doing something like nodechat.org? This feature is so killer, you could easily make a successful sister project

[djcyry]

WoW ..nice !! nodeBB rullz

[exodo]

Nice. I guess many people will like this. I hope it can be disabled also.

[Kowlin]

@exodo any reason you want a option to disable it?

[a_5mith]

I'm assuming each person only sees posts from after they're added to the room?

Perhaps @psychobunny needs to work some of his "-user- was added to the room" magic between posts.

Looking good @baris.

[julian]

Not even 12 hours after posting, @baris is getting feature creeped like mad Poor guy..

[Kowlin]

@julian I'm still waiting for the hidden features @psychobunny is releasing sooner or later,

[JaredBusch]

@Kowlin said:

@exodo any reason you want a option to disable it?

Maybe not a disable, but instead make a max participant value. If the forum admin sets it to 2, then it would be no different than now.

I really want the feature. I cannot count the number of times I have had a chat going and then had to either backfire things to another person, or take it to another medium (Skype/hangouts) in order to get a group chat going.

[baris]

@a_5mith said:

I'm assuming each person only sees posts from after they're added to the room?

Yes

[exodo]

@Kowlin said:

@exodo any reason you want a option to disable it?

Simple. I have seen many scenarios where group chats killed forum activity.