jhthorsen

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by jhthorsen 6y ago
We actually just changed to convos.chat :)
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by jhthorsen 6y ago
It comes from "conversation by" iirc.
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by jhthorsen 6y ago
Can you explain? I don't understand "hacks the back button" :/
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by jhthorsen 6y ago
Thank you! It's all because of Mojolicious real time web framework. The fun of using the well designed components, and not to mention the ease of writing tests makes it a no-brainer to me :) It's fun running cloc from time to time
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by jhthorsen 6y ago
I don't think the IRC server admins would be very happy if I started b64 encode live audio and video streams over their irc daemons ;) STUN/TURN is not a requirement, but most users will have issues if you don't add those s
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by jhthorsen 6y ago
CTCP messages are widely implemented, and there are no standardised or restrictions to how to format them. Since there are no good way to pass WebRTC signalling through IRC, I made up my own protocol. If a more standard way is available in
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Convos IRC client now supports video chat(convos.by)
83 points by jhthorsen 6y ago|27 comments
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by jhthorsen 7y ago
The server part of Convos is like an IRC bouncer, but instead of supporting the IRC protocol from the client side, it has a HTTP/WebSocket interface that talks to the Convos frontend. So Convos keeps your connection, so even if you clo
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by jhthorsen 7y ago
We decided to use Perl, because of the real-time web framework Mojolicious - https://mojolicious.org/ . It makes developing web apps a breeze.
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by jhthorsen 7y ago
I would very much like this as well, but "kiosk" mode is currently not planned. Might start consider it again after https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos/issues/414 is closed... Please do open an issu
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by jhthorsen 7y ago
I don't understand what you mean about "web page should specify which IRC server to use". I'm also confused about notion about "request headers". I highly doubt Convos will ever support chatting without JavaScr
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by jhthorsen 7y ago
Logging in and adding users got a lot easier in version 2.0: https://convos.by/2019/11/24/convos-one-point-two.html The next version of Convos (which will hopefully be released this week) adds support for LDA
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by jhthorsen 13y ago
Got any killer features that we should add to Convos?
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by jhthorsen 13y ago
Convos has auto complete for commands and nicks, and the auto reconnect should work, though I think it's hard making good tests for it.