embedded chat/community

[sonoftherock]

I have been working on a chat widget for online tutorials and would love it to be embedded on javascript.info. I think it would be a good replacement to disqus and am willing to do it for completely free given that this is an open-source, non profit endeavor. Please check out the demo and landing page of what I've built and just let me know at trevor@bloomchat.app if you want it to be set up on the website. Thanks!

[iliakan]

Should we make a Telegram channel? Or a Slack channel? Or something else for the community?

[sonoftherock]

Hey Ilya, I think Bloom would work great on javascript.info. You can think of it as Slack that can be embedded onto the website so that people can chat directly from the website, instead of having to go back and forth between javascript.info and a slack group. We are actually soon gonna be supporting github login and, if you are willing, we can customize authentication to pull from the account information on javascript.info so that people on the website will not even have to make a separate account, whereas they would have to on Telegram or Slack.

Could you give me your email so that we can move this conversation over?

[iliakan]

There are so many options. I've never heard of Bloom.

Let's read what people say here =). And also we need to know, whether or not they are interested, because there are so many communities around.

[sonoftherock]

Yes, sounds good. I am an undergraduate student at Yale who built this platform because I often use online resources myself. Bloom is made primarily for online courses with an instructor, but we are interested in seeing how our tool could be useful for self studying with resources like JavaScript.info as well. Let me know what people say!

[Violet-Bora-Lee]

Hi, I'm also considering a chat system for Korean contributors. I think there are well-maintained communication systems for git repository such as Gitter, Slack.

I was trying to ask @iliakan for creating Gitter community here but I saw this issue. So, I leave my opinion here.

[iliakan]

@Violet-Bora-Lee why do you prefer gitter over other means? What's popular in Korea?

[Violet-Bora-Lee]

Korean contributors actually are using Kakao chat application. It's the most famous chat app among Korean.

I don't prefer anything but I want to change communication means nowadays to log any activities.

Korean repository is growing fastly because I've introduced this project on some conferences and seminars. So, I'm thinking of how to improve the translation process.

[iliakan]

I created the gitter room and invited you there.

When the 1st part is ready we can publish the Korean version.

[Violet-Bora-Lee]

Awesome! Thanks, Ilya 🥇 🥇 🥇
I'll notify Korean contributors we can use new Gitter room. :)

[iliakan]

@Violet-Bora-Lee by the way, there's bot to use for translation, it adds/removes labels and requests reviews for PRs, labels translations in the issue.

https://javascript.info/translate/bot.

[Violet-Bora-Lee]

Yeah. I think the auto-labeling feature is cool 💯