Group chat

[TamasSzerb]

Hello,

Can we have a group chat? As I saw, a couple of other clients already implemented it - so as I understand, the protocol provides this feature.

Thanks

[dvor]

Yes, I have planned group chat for nearest future.

[maxmironov]

Any updates on this? Can I vote for pushing this to top of backlog? :)

[dvor]

Will try to implement it before January.

[dvor]

After some consideration I decided to postpone group chats until persistent one would be implemented in toxcore. At least I will wait for TokTok/c-toxcore#295 to be merged.

With non-persistent chats UX on mobile client might be bad and annoying. For example:

• user joined a group chat
• user puts app in background and opens some other app
• iOS due to lack of resources kills Antidote
• user comes back, Antidote is restarted
• group chat is no longer active because it wasn't persistent.

[trosel]

Adding updated PR TokTok/c-toxcore#826

Review status: 11 of 14 files reviewed at latest revision, 1 unresolved discussion.

Very close now!!

[scottrw1]

Hey dvor. How’s it going? Any news in this feature? Tbh I’d take group chat even with “feature” listed above.

[dvor]

It seems that PR in c-toxcore isn't merged yet. I'm not planning to work on this feature in the nearest future.