Pagination

This release adds a feature to load in messages incrementally #11. It also fixes bugs #12 and #13.

Showing who joined/left a room

This release adds a system message to the chat when somebody joins/leaves the room.

Join room, leave room

This release adds a new rooms item to user records, so each user now carries a list of the rooms they have joined. You can now use the commands /join room and /leave room, and there is also a sidebar UI for joining/leaving.

New rooms

This release adds functionality for creating new rooms.

Sidebar UI for rooms

This release adds a new sidebar UI that currently shows a single room.

Behind the scenes, the message data is reorganized a bit to accommodate messages going to different rooms. That reorganization has to be performed manually to retain chat logs, so updating a running version of Smol Chat will not go seemlessly (thus the minor point release bump, v0.1.0).

Here is how to update the data store manually:

cd .data
mkdir rooms
mv messages rooms/commons
echo '{"dirs": ["commons"]}' > rooms/.index.json

System messages

This release adds system messages, currently showing incremental timestamps between messages.

Bug fix:

• Long URLs should get shortened #9

More nuanced notifications

1. Notifications now have three states:

• enabled: all messages
• enabled: @user mentions (new default state)
• disabled

2. When the mentions is selected, notifications are sent for the following:

• @[nickname]
• @all
• @channel
• @everyone
• @here

3. The favicon (the icon in the tab) shows a dot when there are unread messages

Message editing

The main event here is message editing, #4. Bug fixes included:

• #3 Check for empty or whitespace-only messages
• #2 Don't send notifications when the window is already in front

Persisting chat logs to disk

We now save the chat logs to disk, which means we won't lose all the history each time we restart the node.js service.

Edit avatar

The user settings now include controls for updating your avatar.