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Sqwok Public Chat – A news-centric social network for conversationalists
- holler 5y agoHey everyone, Felt like a good day to post an update on Sqwok after last posting a Show HN in December last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672). The site development has continued to move forward, sometimes feeling much slower than I'd like, but still moving nonetheless and here's what's been added since Dec: - Markdown support w/live preview added to chat messages and user bios. (Custom built parser took awhile to learn/figure out, planning a blog post on what I learned, details in the faq). - Improved messaging and presence backend - did a major refactor of the backend "real time" messaging and presence handling, and it now supports multiple concurrent sessions/logins and cut down on large number of bugs. Still not perfect and plan to continue to improve it. - Online Users feature that displays who else is online. - Improved "follow" feature with dedicated pages under user profile. - Improved User profile pages with new bio section, location, website, displayname and ability to edit all (avatar coming soon). - Settings pages that include ability to change email, change password, delete account, and configure email notifications. - Email notifications were just added that allow users who added an email address to be notified when they are @mentioned (chat, bio, or post), or followed. - Many improvements under the hood to UI components and elsewhere, with much more to come. Sqwok is meant to be a place to discuss the news, current events, and other topics in _real time_ with minimal friction and effortless ease. Let me know if you have any questions & thanks for reading!