Make something like Discord Rich Presence

[itsnexuu]

Currently, Fluxer feels a bit "lonely" for a basic user. When I’m using the app, I can’t see what other people are up to, and they can’t see what I’m doing. On platforms like Discord, the "Rich Presence" feature makes everything feel more alive because you can see statuses and current activities at a glance. I think Fluxer is missing that social spark that tells you: "Hey, the community is active right now!"

I’d love to see something like RPC feature built directly into the platform.

It would be cool if our profiles showed things like:

• Current Activity: e.g., "Browsing assets", "Editing a project", or just "Idle".
• Session Timer: Showing how long someone has been active.
• Custom Status: A simple text line where we can write what’s on our mind.

Just a reminder: I know the team is currently swamped with much more important core features and bug fixes. I’m posting this as a "future request" – something to think about for the long term when the platform is ready for more social features. No rush at all!

[breadguyyy]

this is listed towards the end of the roadmap :)

[Dontknow09]

I think we could just like shadow the normal discord rpc calls and react to them so most apps and games should work out of the box?

[Wdboyes13]

This would be good, since it opens up the possibility of things like Spotify integration similar to discords.

[PhrolovaMoe]

Discord just opens a unix domain socket (or multiple, 0-9) at $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, which apps that have RPC support hook into. each message is a header (opcode as uint32LE + length as uint32LE) followed by a JSON payload. on top of this, Discord on Linux periodically scans /proc for processes and matches them against a database for automatic matching

the opcodes are: 0 for handshake, 1 for frame (for setting activity, etc.), 2 for close, 3 for ping, and 4 for pong

for maximum compatibility, we probably want to mimic what Discord does with its unix sockets, but this would prevent you from using Fluxer and Discord at the same time

here's an example:

$ eza $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR | grep -i discord-ipc

discord-ipc-0

if this is a desired feature, I can try implementing it

[az-z31]

Why would mimicking Discord’s IPC necessarily prevent simultaneous usage? Couldn’t you namespace the socket instead of reusing discord-ipc-0?

[PhrolovaMoe]

you can have 10 sockets at once, but apps hook into the first free socket. if an app hooks into Discord's socket first, we can't do anything about it. if the user disabled RPC in Discord though, it could work

Fluxer could have it's own sockets as well (fluxer-ipc-{0..9}), it's just that most apps won't implement RPC for Fluxer

[Dontknow09]

Why would mimicking Discord’s IPC necessarily prevent simultaneous usage? Couldn’t you namespace the socket instead of reusing discord-ipc-0?

Because using the same sockets as discord can ensure backwards compatibility with older games that will never add fluxer specific rpc.

for maximum compatibility, we probably want to mimic what Discord does with its unix sockets, but this would prevent you from using Fluxer and Discord at the same time

sorry if I know little about this but, can't we just intercept or read from the same socket as discord?

[Wdboyes13]

yeah i was thinking that intercepting socket traffic targetted for discord and if discord is not open, creating that socket from fluxer, so that apps that support discord rpc automatically support fluxer.

[ZackMercury]

I don't want to see that in Fluxer. How do I downvote a feature?

What I suggest instead is Activity Overlay

[Jackenmen]

How do I downvote a feature?

Like this:

[Dontknow09]

Such negativity...

What I suggest instead is Activity Overlay

what does that mean?

[ZackMercury]

what does that mean?

[Dontknow09]

afaik that's exactly what we were talking about lol

[Wdboyes13]

yeah it is lmao

[NellowTCS]

I haven’t seen clarification on whether server‑side or serverless‑originated activity updates are intended to be supported.

My use case is: a web app (HTMLPlayer (beta)) sends some state to a backend (or serverless function), and that updates my Fluxer activity.

Will this be supported?

I’m mainly asking because Discord explicitly forbids RPC from external servers unless you have special permission, and I would love it if Fluxer supported it via server.

[Kamalaja]

Rich presence is planned to be worked on after v2 drops!

[Kamalaja]

Closing due to actively being implemented