mad_chatter v/s kandan (yet another feature complete groupchat project)

[kirantpatil]

Hello,

Please find the another groupchat project called kandan, https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan.

Which looks same as that of mad_chatter.

What do you guys say about it?

Is it worth copying some features of it to mad_chatter?

Do we need stick to either mad_chatter or kandan? Since kandan looks more complete.

Please debate on this topic and let us know what community feels and our future footsteps towards mad_chatter.

Thanks, Kiran Patil.

[kirantpatil]

please find the kandan blog here.

https://cloudfuji.com/blog/2012/05/07/launching_cloudfuji.html

[andrewhavens]

Hi Kiran,

Thanks for posting the link to Kandan. I've been following their progress and I agree, they have a nice looking group chat application. I think Kandan would be nice for many people. However, I feel the features that I would like to implement differ enough from Kandan that Mad Chatter and Kandan can both exist.

I built Mad Chatter for fun and to fill a need that I had, but now that I see how others want to use it, I want to continue to implement feature requests to meet the needs of other developers. Here is a list of features that I plan on building:

• ability to integrate Mad Chatter into a Rails application so that your existing app's users can log in.
• ability to customize the look and feel of Mad Chatter
• ability to generate a custom native (Mac, Windows, Linux, mobile) app for your users to download.
• ability to host on Heroku or other similar cloud providers
• ability to write custom extensions/hooks like GitHub's Hubot to add contextual functionality

Unfortunately I have not had a lot of time to implement these features and other projects have been a higher priority. But you have lit a fire under me and am going to try to release enough of these features soon so that the rest of the community can help me build out the rest of the features.

[kirantpatil]

Hi @andrewhavens,

To get more clear picture, I would like to know how does Mad Chatter differ from Kandan?

Since the features looks same from outside.

[kirantpatil]

@andrewhavens it is nice to see your roadmap.

I feel the priority should go in the following order

• ability to integrate Mad Chatter into a Rails application so that your existing app's users can log in
• ability to write custom extensions/hooks like GitHub's Hubot to add contextual functionality
• ability to customize the look and feel of Mad Chatter
• ability to support irc and other protocols
• ability to generate a custom native (Linux, Android, Mac, Windows) app for your users to download.

Great to see that you are charged up :+1:

Thanks for the wonderful project and people like you are :angel:

[kirantpatil]

Forgot mention the feature, faye with redis backend https://github.com/faye/faye-redis-node