hermesmessenger/hermes

A decentralized messaging app

hermes's Issues

Problems when parsing links & quotes

There are two problems with the parsing of messages and quotes:

1. If a message has both a quote and a link in it, the text appears twice (once with each format) since it is appended instead of replaced.
2. If a message has more than one link in it, the text in between the first and last one is all parsed as one link.

Error when accessing a non-existant page

When accessing a nonexistant page, the server shows a very basic error (Cannot GET /{URL}). We should add exceptions to this.

Add ability to edit messages

Allow users to choose their name color

Add ability to delete messages

Use POST instead of GET when saving settings

We should use POST to save the user settings because GET has a length limit, and if the user selects an image that isn't smaller than 5kb, the server returns the 414 error code (URI Too Long).

Since POST doesn't have size limits, it would be a lot more effective to send the data.

Translate Hermes to other languages

This is feature to be be added in the long future, as now we need to fix more important things than this

Quote color doesn't appear if username has a space

Having text before a quote breaks it

Resize profile images instead of setting maximum dimensions

When implementing the profile picture submission, for now there's a maximum dimension for the images set up at 128px*128px. Ideally there wouldn't be any limit, only that if an image surpasses a threshold, the image is resized to fit.

Add a protocol to change password

When we finish the settings page we'll need a protocol to change the user's password.

Add function to get if any notifications need to be executed for Hermes Desktop

In Hermes Desktop this could be used to execute it & get the notifications needed to send

If user doesn't log out the uuid is kept in the db, but not used

This is a problem, because infinite uuid's could be stored.
It could be fixed by adding a maximum usable time to logged in user uuids.
Or if a user logs in and it already has a uuid created(because he/she didn't log out), use that uuid

Quotes don't work when replying to a message with a quote in it

The quote doesn't parse the text correctly and shows it as empty.

Add profile pictures

Like in other messaging apps, may be shown to the left of their name.

Add ability to tag (@) other users

Time doesn't display properly when quoting without a message

Sending messages works even if message field is empty

In this case, the message is just empty.
This is a problem since holding down the Enter key causes MANY messages to be sent, spamming other users.

Add dark mode

This would help the Hermes Desktop app, and fix #1 from there. In that issue there's a bit more explained, but it would basicly mean to add a /dark to every page

Users not saved in database properly

Currently, when adding a user to the database, the process creates a 3rd field with value undefined.

Quoting messages with links doesn't work properly

The link does not appear and the quote is not marked as one

Server hangs when a lot of messages are sent very close in time

There can be HTML tags inside a link

This problem can still happen inside links:

Add a cookie notice

Add a small pop-up to ask the user if he accepts the use of cookies, and an option to see our use of them. To meet EU laws.

Create a settings page

We should create a settings page where users can

• Change their password
• Change notification frequency (Always / only when page isn't focused / never)
• Change their user's color (If we add it)
• Change their profile picture (If we add it)

Time does not show padding after Cassandra implementation

I don't know if we changed the function that generated it, but it was better like before.

Long usernames break the bottom bar

When a user uses a username which doesn't fit in the space in the bottom, all buttons and bars are moved down.

If page is to small, the settings button dissapears

Make the web pages responsive so that they can be used on mobile

make the code for having multiple servers & decentralizing Hermes

This issue should be split up when we have an idea of what we're doing

Quote users and reply to messages

It would be nice to be able to quote other users and reply to other messages, as in other messaging apps.

Text after quote can be html

Message size on mobile

There are a few problems with message sizes on mobile:

• The time is too small to read
• The first few messages are very small, but then it corrects itself after a few.
  • If you rotate the device, all of them show with the same (big) font size.

Add bots

We should add the ability to create bots to give Hermes more functionality.

Messages with quotes of messages with links display strangely

quotes don't work well, css parsing fails on users whose name is a number

I think it's because of the way css works, so it doesn't allow a class name being a number

Anyone can send messages through the API without need for login

Make links work as links

We should make links work as actual links, so a user can click them and they open in a new tab.

Add browser notifications

Add an option to show a notification when a new message is sent.

There are many libraries which can help us do this.

creating messages with two quotes doesn't work (JS errors out)

Add multiple chat pages, like groups or channels

This would add pages located in /chat/%channel_uuid% and for all the APIs related to sending & recieving messages, like /loadmessages would have /%channel_uuid% attached to the end.
In redis we could store them as a list named %channel_uuid%_messages

Disable notifications when a user is on the site

Show date and time a message was sent

Right now a user doesn't have a way of seeing when a message was sent. The UI might look something like this:

Login isn't secure

Right now, the only thing the login page does is set the username cookie. Any user can set the cookie to anything, go to server.com/chat and be logged in as any user they want.

Multiple users with same user name

Right now, you can create more than one user with the same name.

This is really bad for security since anyone can create another user with the same username and a different password, and the system will identify them as the same user.

Fix - check if user with same name exists before creating a new user

Time is always the same even if the time zone of the client is different

Since the message time is added server side, the times of the messages depend on the time zone where the server is located. (It can be a problem when we present it in Dublin)

To fix this, we can make the server store the time in UTC format and then convert it on the client depending on its location.

Improve website scrolling

There are two small problems with scrolling on the website:

• When connecting to the page, the vertical scroll of the position is more or less halfway by default. It is not a big problem now because there are not too many messages, but when the number of messages is increased the user will have to scroll a lot in order to get to the bottom of the page.

• When you send a message and you are not at the bottom of the page, the website should either:

  • Scroll to the bottom automatically
  • Not scroll at all (stay how it is)

Issues with macOS dark theme

1. The background color for the date is the same as that of the chat, and it looks very strange.
   

2. There is no CSS for the button to scroll down
   

Make quotes link to the original message

For linking, the messages already have an id, message_ with _ being the number of message, so to link to it, we should redirect to the same page but with #message_ at the end

Quotes sometimes display " at the end

This happens sometimes, but I haven't looked into what might cause them

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It looks like it might be related to how we parse qouted messages without quotes & the difference to how we parse then when the quoted messages have quotes.