A Shoutbox style plugin for Discourse.
Currently still under development!
Check out a live instance of Discourse with Babble installed on it here: http://discourse-babble.com (You'll have to make an account to see the chat)
- 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.
- This has been added to the admin panel; simply visit
/admin/chatsto create, update, and delete your chat channels.
- 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
- Having multiple chat channels
- Configuring channels to be accessible to certain groups of people
- Emojis!
- Posting to chat currently counts as a user post, which appears in a user's /posts page, counts towards badges, etc., which is not the best.
- Chat responsiveness is still a bit slower than I'd like
- Likely other things; let me know!
Things that I'd like to add:
- Pagination (likely load previous page)
- Editing a recent post of yours
- Allowing user to mute chat notifications
Babble is currently available in English, German, Spanish, and French. If you'd like it translated into your language, let me know! The process is simple and easy, and I'm happy to help with it.
Pull requests welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md
You can view some ongoing discussion about this plugin on Discourse Meta