thedjpetersen/subway

ABANDONED - A web based IRC client

subway's Issues

Unread messages/mentions.

Channel Tabs should show unread messages and unread mentions.

Quiet mode

There should be a mode where joins/parts are not shown in the channel only the actual message content. In big channels this will be especially useful.

Support for quits

Add support for quits.

Support link to channel

There should be a way to provide a friend a link with a server/channel/username and them to follow it directly and it will connect to the server, join the channel, and apply the closest possible match for that username.

Settings model

There should be a backbone model which represents the settings for the app.

Embedded media

When someone posts an image or youtube link they should be embedded into the chat.

Message formatting improvements

The current message formatting isn't a bad concept, but I think we can do better. It adds a bit too much vertical space to each message IMO, and draws too much attention to the date line.

My taste exceeds my talent here... there are a lot of ideas we could play with, from more conventional IRC formatting to iChat / Adium style messages with colored bubbles surrounding each.

Tab completion

When the user hits the 'tab' key the input should start to autocomplete the field from the userlist.

More graceful failing

The server should not die when the user enters an incorrect channel.

HTML5 Boilerplate

We really sure ensure we're supporting HTML5 tags in all browsers, in order to get the most involvement from the community.

H5BP/Modernizr/Respond.js can help out a lot here.

I've already ported H5BP to Jade, but we need only really need a stripped down version.

I can help with this.

Fluid layout issues

So all of the major containers in the current layout are expressed with percentage sizing. The fluid layout you get with that is great, but it creates problems. See What happens to the User List / channel headers as you shrink vertically for example.

I think the only good solution here is JS-based resizing, with elements like the input container, title bars etc. getting fixed vertical sizing, and other elements getting fixed minimums as appropriate.

Monitor & auto-restart on failure

The nodester deploy crashed already. There are a number of modules that will monitor and auto-restart node instances; this is very important to have in place before we advertise a public link heavily.

Userlist

There needs to be a userlist that displays users and updates on users joining and leaving.

Messages from notice

Messages from notice should show up in the status window.

Add support for parting channels

• Support /part command
• Add x button to channel tabs

Interaction with the IRC library

Hook up basic interaction with node-irc library. This should happen in a seperate file that gets required by the subway.js file.

Autocomplete irc server

Have a default set of IRC servers that starts autocompleting when you start typing in IRC server address.

Support topic change from user.

When user types in '/topic' the client should be able to change the topic and emit a message.

Add support for /privmsg & /query

The convention is that /query opens a chat window immediately, whereas /privmsg and /msg don't open a window. In our case, we'll make all three synonyms... but all three should work.

Joins/parts not shown as unreads.

Unread notifications should only be for messages, joins/parts should not increase the count.

Icons should be placed with the CSS

Icons should be placed with the CSS not as embedded images.

Switch to github for node-irc dependency

github master branch has my fix for failed connections. It's still not on npm. We need it!

More new message signalling

Some additional signals would be helpful to indicate new mentions and privmsgs:

• Count in title (a la Gmail)
• Play a sound (but what sound??)
• Desktop notification (bleeding edge -- only Chrome support right now)

Upgrade to Backbone 0.9.0

...and hope nothing breaks. It was just released yesterday.
Looks like it has a handful of useful new features.

Channel member list not showing

Not sure if there is an extra step yet required to get the side pane with list to show, but it didn't show by default for my in development mode.

Should be able to turn off inactivity and idle on userlist

This is to conserve CPU and Memory.

Provide support for /me

User statuses should be shown and /me should work as needed.

User box

There should be a box on above the channels that shows the users name where they can click and change their name

Focus on channel join

Input focus is lost on channel join. That's annoying.

Crash due to unhandled error

This happened today, in production:

   debug - websocket writing 5:::{"name":"motd","args":[{"motd":"- asimov.freenode.net Message of the Day - \n- Welcome to asimov.freenode.net in TX, USA!  Thanks to\n- Rackspace (www.rackspace.com) for sponsoring\n- this server!\n-  \n- ASIMOV, ISAAC [1920-1992].  One of the brightest stars of the\n- science fiction universe.  Author of \u001fI Robot\u001f, the\n- \u001fFoundation\u001f series (which \"grew like Topsy\"), \u001fPebble in the\u001f\n- \u001fSky\u001f and hundreds of works of science fact and science\n- fiction.\n-  \n- You're using freenode, a service of Peer-Directed Projects\n- Center Ltd (http://freenode.net/pdpc.shtml).\n-  \n- By connecting to freenode you indicate that you have read\n- and agree to adhere to our policies and procedures as per\n- the website (http://freenode.net). We would like to remind\n- you that unauthorized public logging of channels on the\n- network is prohibited. Public channel logging should only\n- take place where the channel owner(s) has requested this\n- and users of the channel are all made aware (if you are\n- publically logging your channel, you may wish to keep a\n- notice in topic and perhaps as a on-join message).\n-  \n- freenode runs an open proxy scanner. Your use of the network\n- indicates your acceptance of this policy. For details on\n- freenode network policy, please take a look at our policy\n- page (http://freenode.net/policy.shtml). Thank you for using\n- the network!\n-  \n- Don't forget to check out these other Peer-Directed Projects:\n- FOSSCON [http://www.fosscon.org] and fossevents \n- [http://www.fossevents.org], and soon we'll repeat last years \n- success with Picnics for Geeks across the globe, more info at \n- [http://geeknic.org]\n-  \n- freenode is a service of Peer-Directed Projects Center Ltd,\n- a not for profit organisation registered in England and Wales.\n-  \n- If you support the work we do and wish to donate to the PDPC, \n- you may do so over at http://freenode.net/pdpc_donations.shtml\n-  \n- Thank you for using freenode!\n-  \n- ***************************************************************\n- Please read http://blog.freenode.net/2010/11/be-safe-out-there/\n- ***************************************************************\nEnd of /MOTD command.\n"}]}

9 Feb 18:32:07 - MODE:mattk sets mode: +i

Event notice sent

{ nick: 'NickServ',
  to: 'mattk',
  text: 'This nickname is registered. Please choose a different nickname, or identify via \u0002/msg NickServ identify <password>\u0002.',
  message: undefined }

   debug - websocket writing 5:::{"name":"notice","args":[{"nick":"NickServ","to":"mattk","text":"This nickname is registered. Please choose a different nickname, or identify via \u0002/msg NickServ identify <password>\u0002."}]}

9 Feb 18:32:07 - GOT NOTICE from "NickServ": "This nickname is registered. Please choose a different nickname, or identify via /msg NickServ identify <password>."

   debug - websocket writing 5:::{"name":"getNick","args":[{"nick":"mattk"}]}

Starting IRC client; wiring up socket events.



events.js:45

        throw arguments[1]; // Unhandled 'error' event
























^


Error: ENOTFOUND, Domain name not found
    at IOWatcher.callback (dns.js:74:15)

Error: Restarted too many times, bailing.

Nick should be assigned by server

We should assign nick after we connect to the server even if it is taken.

Dot com, Social media

More contributors the better -- need a dot com and twitter.

Maybe subway.io or something?

Deploy on nodester

Think it's about time to get this thing up on nodester. It's easy & free.
Plan to do it on Monday when people are paying more attention to the internet.

Alert dialog when closing window

When you close the tab it should prompt you if you are sure you want to disconnect from IRC.

If not by default, should be a setting.

Add support for nick changing

/nick is not supported yet. That should work, and should update the nick shown in the new user box.

Userlist update

Some style differences updating the userlist. Changing how the time is displayed and how delays are tracked.

Scroll weirdness

Status takes a while to start scrolling. Then it starts the animated scroll, one message at a time (with each line of the motd being a separate message), really slowly. A few issues here:

• Scrollbar goes haywire when you try to move it.
• Status messages should automatically pull the scrollbar to the bottom as the populate the window (I programmed web-irc this way).
• If you scroll back to view message history, the view snaps down to the bottom as soon as a new message arrives.

I have some code in web-irc for conditional auto-scroll based on whether the view is already scrolled to the bottom, and for saving scroll position when changing focused windows.

Redo addMessage

In stream init, we have this:

this.bind('add', irc.appView.addMessage);

addMessage should be brought into ChatView; some of that code could probably be simplified in the process.

Update nick in user list on nick change

When any user changes their nick, the userlist should update, and a nick change message should show in the channel.
Had support for this in web-irc; see lines 561-572 of app.js. Can't remember if it really worked though...

New loading gif

The current loading gif has a sligh unattractive border, its time to find a new loading gif...

Titlebar

The titlebar needs the name of the channel and the current topic.

Mobile Friendly

We need a front-end for mobile devices, we could go about this probably with a UA detection and use a different
{ layout: 'mobile' } or something in Jade. I might be able to help integrate this.

Show sent /me messages

When I send a /me message, though the recipient gets it, it doesn't show in Subway.

Notify user of connection failures

After switching node-irc dependency, we'll be able to show the user that connection has failed.

Sidebar & connection dialog need minimum widths

There are no min-widths on containers -- if you size the browser down horizontally, the logo overruns the left sidebar and the "New Connection" / "Settings" logos are stacked vertically.

Start work on frontend

Start work on frontend model, view, templates for the application. There should be a basic overall chat window and other elements derived from that.

More graceful scrolling

http://api.jquery.com/animate/

Bootstrap 2.0 upgrade

Upgrade from bootstrap 1.4 to 2.0 without destroying custom styles.

Regressions in Improvements

There appears to have been quiet a few regressions in some of the refactoring done in 1/misc/improvements. At this time I would say the branch is unsafe for merging until all the regressions have been cleared.

Triple-activation

On channel join, it seems that the channel is being set as active 3 times. At least, the console.log() statement in collections.js line 38 is tripping 3 times.

First time is caused by the irc.chatWindows.add() statement in client.js, the next two are caused by lines 13 & 14 of channel_list.js.

Sort things out so we're not retreading the same steps several times.