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:speech_balloon: Probably the fastest, most reliable/scalable chat system on the internet.

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List of People Who are Online/Active #38

Open nelsonic opened 7 years ago

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

As a person using the "chat" app I would like to see who is available/online so that I can converse with that person.

Acceptance Criteria

[ ] when a user registers into the chat emit joined their name back to the server
[ ] when the server receives the joined message (with the username):
- [ ] add the user to the list of available people
- [ ] broadcast that list (or just the new joiner) to everyone who is connected
[ ] display the name of the joiner in the UI

@finnhodgkin / @ZooeyMiller is this enough criteria to go on?

ZooeyMiller commented 7 years ago

This seems to sum up the criteria fine. when you say:

display the name of the joiner in the UI

is this in the form of a separate notification (like a snackbar or something) or just adding them to say a sidebar list of 'online users'?

nelsonic commented 7 years ago

@ZooeyMiller really good questions. As discussed this morning, your (and @finnhodgkin's) idea of including join events into the timeline is a good option for simplifying the UI. it can get very noisy in a channel with 100's of people when the transcript has more join events than actual messages, but for now it's good. 👍 We can easily iterate on it based on UX-testing feedback. ♻️