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Cross-forum chat room

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I'm using NodeBB as an interface for an app, more like a crowdsourcing hub. The forum is okay, but sometimes the communication is more dynamic and people have to either speak on the phone, use other apps or meet in person.

For new forums or for forums with small user base, a cross-forum chat room would be very engaging.
For the UI I'm imagining something like DC++ looked like in the old days.

This idea fits in different scenarios. At least in mine it does. The chat room would be an extension of the forum.

How do you find the idea?
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@a_5mith I fully understand that. I come from SMF, in terms of the software my community was using. But I am saying I've had a very serious problem before, where no time limits were set on deletion and edification. One previous member had the time and energy to go through their 200+ forum history and erase everything. Once bitten, twice shy. If I have to mod something but the feature still technically 'exists' (as in, it's only a cover-up on the ui) then I don't feel safe using the software.
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@pitaj thanks, please add seen feature like Telegram too. @mohammadhassan
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Check https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/1242#issuecomment-44319519 cnvo created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB closed Utilize taskbar at the bottom for chats #1242
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Hmm, so I just found an interesting behavior that might be the cause. It appears that NodeBB uses the websocket by default, but when the connection fails, it falls back to polling! It does not appear to reconnect to the websocket after the failure. There's an easy way to see this - open up Chrome's dev tools on a NodeBB site, then kill your network connection. It starts sending polling requests, and continues even after the connection is re-established! Perhaps this is the reason that it gets "stuck" and has weird connectivity bugs?
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@julian said: I was looking into this with WebRTC. It's definitely doable As long as someone can make a plugin for that plugin that'll send all uploaded files through an online virus checker

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