jabbr / jabbr

Collaborative chat done right

JabbR

JabbR is a chat application built with ASP.NET using SignalR.

Features and Bugs

If you want to discuss the features join discussion in the meta room on jabbr.

JabbR Features and Commands

Public and private chat rooms

Quickly join a public chat room with

/join [roomName]

And join any private room with an invite code

/join [roomName] [inviteCode]

Gravatar

Assign a gravatar to your nick. Be recognized, even in JabbR!

Type /gravatar [email] - to set your gravatar.

Notifications

• Integrated into Chrome to provide you with popup desktop notifications.
• Live Twitter mentions powered by twitterbot, so that you never miss out on the conversation.
• Audio notifications.

Content Provider Support

Inline image and content support for your favorite sites:

• Bash Quote DB
• BBC News
• CollegeHumor
• Dictionary.com
• GitHub Issues
• GISTs
• Google Docs
• imgur
• join.me
• Mixcloud
• NerdDinner
• Nuget Packages
• Pastie
• Screencast
• SlideShare
• SoundCloud
• Twitter
• Uservoice
• UStream
• Vimeo
• Youtube

And if you ever happen to get lost...

Type /? - to show the full list of JabbR Commands

Getting started with the code

We use the nightly builds of the ASP.NET WebStack, so while master always contains stable code, if you don't have the packages on your machine already, they might have been deleted from the myget source which will cause errors during a build. As such, you likely want to work on the dev branch, which is updated more frequently.

To perform your first build, grab the source, and open a visual studio command prompt and run build.cmd from the main directory. JabbR.sln should now open and run in Visual Studio without problems. Note that you may need to update the web.config to point to a valid SQL Server installation. The first created user is assigned the admin role. Any questions or issues can be raised in the meta room on jabbr.

Getting Involved

We welcome contributions from experienced developers. You can get involved by logging bugs in github, hacking on the source, or discussing issues / features in the meta room.

jabbr's Issues

Add Search of transcripts

I want to be able to search the transcripts for a room. Rooms should have the ability to turn this on or off when creating the room. That way, a room for shooting the breeze isn't a permanent record of your tasteless jokes, but a room used for a team working together has a searchable archive.

Wikipedia links are broken for some reason

Paste this in the chat room:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Design_Language

and it'll come out like this:

Language" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroDesignLanguage">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroDesign_Language

It's the markdown logic in js.

Add a /flag <country name> for your country :)

Yo.

maybe have a tiny flag BEFORE the gravatar, on the left hand side.

also, autocomplete would be nice, for the country list ?

flags would be a single sprite .. and using css magical-unicorn-pewpew .. can display the correct one.

KThxBai !

/me hugs.

Provide option to beep when browser is not in focus and a new message comes up

Basically, do the IM style beep.

Add a dedicated gravatar command

Some people probably don't want to make their email their username just for a fancy gravatar. Can we get a dedicated command?

Parsing error with youtube videos

SignalR chat won't properly display this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f85IyulX0TI

It will display same video if URL is altered to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwUI6IhAegY&feature=related

Fix may be as easy as stripping out "feature=player_embedded&" should it be present in URL.

The users list does not properly update until refresh

Sometimes the user list does not remove users even though they are not in the room. Refreshing the page (or leaving and rejoining the room) will make the list update. Possibly related to application updates?

Feature #Room

when people ask to join room or once room is created from user using the hash symbol in front of the room name it becomes link and creates a tab of that room for the user.

/Nick is hitting Index out of bounds of array

Trying to set my Nickname fails at some point, even though the NickName is registered because if I try /nick MYNICKNAME twice, the second time it throws "MYNICKNAME is already taken!"

Arrowkey-up loads last message, but upon editing it, resends the entire text

I guess I'm too used to Skype, whereup using arrowkey-up to load the last message and then editing the text would edit the message in the discussion rather than resending.

When external content is added, scrolling behavior and resizing content doesn't work properly

When an external url brings in content from a content provider, we sometimes scroll and re-size the content before it comes in (since we don't know when the browser has fully loaded the content).

Current tab isn't obvious: expected white to be the current tab, not gray

The current highlighted tab is counter-intuitive: it's the gray tab when I would expect it to be the white tab.

This is an issue when there are only two tabs, e.g. Lobby and aspnet.

Everything else on the screen that's is active is colored white: the current room's chat window, the data entry area where I type my text, etc. Therefore one would expect the current tab to be white instead of gray.

Feature: Timestamp on messages

It would be nice if there was a timestamp on messages, so that if you duck off for a few minutes you know when messages were sent.

As a side note, /j and /n should be able to be used as aliases for /join and /nick.

a message if the chat goes down

a message to the user if the chat goes down would be good.
Now it only stops to work, no new entries apear and if i try to post i get "pleas choose a nick"

Or even beeter would be an reload of the page and autologon

Save transcripts

It would be nice to have some kind of "save transcript of this chat" feature, an option for the chat moderator (?) which would store all messages, to be avail later from an url like chatapp.apphb.com/razor/2011-11-16

Saying this because I just attended a very informational chat and I'm sure I'm missing many interesting discussions each day :)

/kick command doesn't accept @nickname

When you try to /kick someone and use the @Nickname form, it says "Couldn't find any user named '@Nickname'"

Should allow @NickNames.

Firefox pin as app tab support

It would be nice to support firefox pin as app tab, in a similar vein as twitter http://twitter.com/#!/download/firefox/

Flash the start bar icon in IE9 when you have unread messages

I want to know when there are unread messages more clearly than just the count in the title bar. IE9 has an API to support flashing the start bar icon from JS, and in other browsers you could possibly even "shake" the window my moving it around via JS (crazy I know :).

Feature - #ShowShortcuts

Once typed in #ShowShortcuts it would display shortcuts only to that user (so it's not an inconvenience to the pros already familiar to the program)

Html from the PastieContentProvider doesn't scroll to bottom

autoscroll stops working after image

if somebody posts an image in the chat, the autoscroll stops to work. (google chrome 13.0.782.218 on windows 7)

Have a way to see what rooms a user is in

When I enter the lobby, I'm typically looking for someone specific, such as dfowler. I'd like the ability to see what rooms he's in.

Maybe something like:

/rooms @dfowler

And when I'm in a room, I'd like to be able to hover over a name and also see that.

remove empty rooms

if somebody starts a new room with '/join roomxyz' the room stays in the '/rooms' list even if nobody is there.
It would be better if empty rooms are removed from the list

Show timestamp for notifications.

Notifications don't show timestamps, lets add those.

Stopped seeing my own messages

After a few minutes of inactivity, when I sent a few messages they did not appear in the main box.
Only after refreshing the page in the browser and joining the chat room again did I see that the messages have been distributed and appeared in the box.

'You have left null'

i get this message if i leave a room i have nearly created with '/join roomxyz'
the correct message needs to be 'You ave left roomxyz'

/tab nickname completion

you type /sha then hit TAB and it autocompletes the first name it finds, another tab goes to the seconth name in the list etc...

Link to hide vid's images

hide vids, images, and other content that have already been looked at to condense the room.

Display current room name

Joined the aspnet room recently and noticed the name is not displayed anywhere. When bouncing around rooms it might be useful to have an indicator.

GIFs stop the chat window from scrolling in IE9 and Chrome

When a chatter uses a gif, the gif appears but the chat window stops scrolling.

Autocomplete username is broken in IE8

The autocompletion of usernames in IE8 puts the autocompleted name at the beginning of the new-message input regardless of where the @ token was.

The messages window does not always scroll to bottom on ordinary messages

This problem at least occurs on IE9.

Haven't found anything in common between the times it happens, but once I find repro steps I will update this issue.

Auto scroll to keep latest updates visible

Don't know if it is intentional or not, but there is no scrolling into view of the latest updates. I think it would be nice to have an option to do so, such that you can work on some unrelated stuff while keeping an eye on what is happening in a room ...

Re-sizing logic is slow and somtimes buggy

Resizing a huge list of messages is buggy. Find a way to do this with css (and maybe a little js)

Save nickname in a browser cookie so you don't have to enter it every time

Subj

Emoticons

Add emoticons!

MSG command should repeat to each joined room.

/msg should be sent to all joined tabs to avoid missing messages.

the request POST /signalr returns cache-control: private

My guess is that there is probably no benefit to allowing the browser to cache this response. If you do want the browser to, then maybe setting max-age would be a good idea instead of relying on the browser caching heuristics.

<code> </code>

Let's display code. After all we're developers.

Prevent too long nickname

There should be a check that :checks if you nickname is not long then xx characters ->

Your name is now longString=0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 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Null reference when using nudge command

Happens if the user doesn't exist.

From elmah:

System.NullReferenceException
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at SignalR.Samples.Hubs.Chat.Chat.HandleNudge(ChatUser user, String[] parts) in d:\temp\1igq1dri.34a\input\Chat\Chat.cs:line 456
   at SignalR.Samples.Hubs.Chat.Chat.TryHandleCommand(String command) in d:\temp\1igq1dri.34a\input\Chat\Chat.cs:line 258
   at SignalR.Samples.Hubs.Chat.Chat.Send(String content) in d:\temp\1igq1dri.34a\input\Chat\Chat.cs:line 86

Feature @Username

When @username is displayed mouse over and show small info's of people of their gravatar facebook or twitter

This would be helpful so people wouldn't have to ask hey can i get your x account.

Simply just roll mouse over and wait one second and there are the links.

still in room

if i fast create many rooms with '/join room1' '/join room2' and so on. im still registered in some rooms.
Sometimes if i try to enter such a room i get 'you are already in this room' and sometime i can enter it.
If i enter and leave such a room and show the list again, there is still someone in this room [room has a (1)]

Automatically list chat rooms when opening chat site

Ideally use links so that I don't have to type /join etc. Just open the website, click a link and you're good!

Users leaving room reported multiple times

When users leave a room, this is sometimes reported more than once.
Alternatively, this could be caused by the system failing to report an interim entering of the room by the same user.

An image of the issue occurring is available here: http://bit.ly/rLLFFk

Join / Leaves of room changes status bar as if it's a real message

When users enter and exit the chat room, the status bar gets updated as if a person actually wrote a message.

It's not very useful to see, hey there's unread messages followed by

Bob left
Ron entered
Ron left

And nothing else.

/nick jkariotisIE9 results in Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary' to 'string'

[problem description]
Can't change nickname by typing command /nick jkariotisIE9

[repro steps]

1. type command /nick jkariotisIE
2. type command /join jkariotis
3. type /leave
4. type /nick jkariotisIE9

expected results:
My nickname should change

actual results:
Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary' to 'string'

/ignore command

Would be handy, especially to deal with the "b00bs".

SignalR chat has no fav.ico

see title.

Chat dialog scrolls the first time you log into a room

Using IE9