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2. Current features
FrostMantis edited this page Jun 18, 2026
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- Direct (1:1) messaging — start a conversation with any user by username
- Group chats — create multi-user rooms, invite and remove participants
- Real-time delivery — WebSocket-based instant message delivery
- Typing indicators — see when the other person is composing a message
- Full message history — scroll back through past conversations
- Message length limit — messages are capped at 5 chunks; users are prompted to split longer content
- Live online / offline status — updated in real time via WebSocket events
- Visual status indicators — colour-coded dots with tooltips in the chat list
- Chat search — filter through your conversations to jump back into one quickly
- Chat archiving — archive inactive chats to keep the list clean; unarchive at any time
- Conversation deletion — delete a chat from your side, with confirmation
- Registration — username, password (with confirmation field), and email
- Email verification — token-based; resend the verification email if the original is lost
- Login / logout — token-based authentication
- Persistent login / auto-login — stay signed in securely between app restarts
- Password reset — triggered by email link
- Change password — from account settings while logged in
- Update username — change your display name from the UI
- Update email — change your registered email address from settings
- Account deletion / deactivation — remove or deactivate your account from the client
- Logout all devices — invalidate all active sessions at once
- In-app voice calls powered by LiveKit
- Peer-to-peer audio — low-latency calls between participants
- Expect rough edges; this feature is still in active development
- Automatic detection of backend availability on startup
- UI disables when the server is unreachable
- Automatic and manual retry when connection is restored
- Chat list updates automatically when you are added to a new chat
- Two-pane layout — sidebar chat list + main message window
- Dark-themed interface with responsive design
- Toast notifications for user feedback
- Keyboard shortcuts — Enter to send, Shift+Enter for a newline
- Basic user profile page for viewing and editing account details
- Electron client (Node.js) for Windows and Linux
- Python Flask HTTP API (port
5123) + FastAPI WebSocket server (port8765) - MariaDB for persistent storage
- Modular codebase — separated HTML / CSS / JS on the client, blueprints + services on the server
- Centralised API layer for all server requests
- Secure local credential storage
- Database initialisation does not require a root MySQL/MariaDB user
- Rate-limited endpoints