A Shoutbox style plugin for Discourse.
Currently still under development!
Installation:
- Edit your web template and add the project clone url. (https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-plugin/19157)
- Rebuild your web container so that the plugin installs.
- In your Discourse setup, ensure that the option "allow uncategorized topics" is checked, otherwise the babble topic creation step you need to perform WILL fail.
- Enter your running web container and launch the rails console.
- [sudo] ./launcher enter web
- rails c
- In the rails console, enter: Babble::Topic.create_topic("your_babble_topic_name")
- You should get green text in response to the above command.
- Exit the console by typing 'exit'. Exit the container by typing 'exit' again.
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