gitter-badger / babble

Discourse Shoutbox plugin

A Shoutbox style plugin for Discourse.

Currently still under development!

Things that work great:

• Sending messages to other clients
• Live updating of chat window with new messages
• Scrolling of window when opening dropdown / new messages come in
• Updating unread counter when a new message comes in
• Updating the read counter in the backend when posts are read
• Live updating the unread counter when posts are read

Things that work not-great:

• Updating last read line / scroll position when reopening chat dropdown
• Need to identify which stats are being updated (post count etc.), and which stats should be updated
• Likely other things; let me know!

Things that I'd like to add:

• Additional outlets for chat windows (sidebar, fixed floating window, etc.)
• Pagination (likely load previous page)
• Editing a recent post of yours
• Allowing user to mute chat notifications
• Adding a context switcher to allow for multiple chat threads
• Post timing tracking

Pull requests welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md

You can view some ongoing discussion about this plugin on Discourse Meta