Chat groups

[danimesq]

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[AnthyG]

This should follow #6 !

[danimesq]

You can create milestones in order to organize issues' priorities.

[AnthyG]

I will probably have to improve the code for the private chat..
though both would basically use the same functions (except that group chat won’t use ecies to encrypt, because that would be bad for big groups, so just AES)

I should probably also extract some code-parts from lobby- and private-chat, to shorten the code, because for private-chat I just copied all of the lobby-chat parts and just edited them to fit private chats, which is somewhat a bad habit of mine.

So I will re-write the addMessage-function to work for all things, which will require some time.

Also see the following link for some differences between private chat and lobby chat
https://www.diffchecker.com/5mjB8rtG

[danimesq]

@AnthyG the chat groups will have options to be public or password-protected?

[AnthyG]

@Plasmmer there could be something like a index for public groups, but as anybody could theoretically just create a new group by changing the URL, so I'm not sure if the first person in a group should even be logged (so it that would be the group-"admin"), because it would just take up extra storage.
The "password-protection" of a group is the group's ID, which can be quite long, if you want to enter it into the address bar 😆

So no, and somewhat-yes.

[AnthyG]

The branch for this can be found at https://github.com/AnthyG/ThunderWave/tree/Group-Chat

[AnthyG]

Added basic functionality with commit e6ba8f7!
You can now try a link like this: http://127.0.0.1:43110/thunderwave.bit/?GC:Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

[AnthyG]

Next up is to “merge” the mostly similar functions from lobby, private, and group chat together, to reduce the code-size, and to make it more “modular”

[AnthyG]

I will close this issue, and create some for already found bugs in group chat, as this was just for the basic implementation for groups.

[AnthyG]

Merging the functions as noted in #19 (comment) is being worked on in ThunderWave Beta. For more information, see #106.

[danimesq]

@AnthyG you can use Bitcoin addresses in the groups, so who have the privatekey is owner of a group.
Or a system where owner can add other admins/roles.

[AnthyG]

@DaniellMesquita I think using the private-/ public key pair for groups should be a new issue.

[AnthyG]

Actually, I'm not sure how I would implement that 😆
Because I can't just use the public key of a user to create a group,.. everybody knows that key.

[danimesq]

Reference: #116.