Include list of public chats from search.jabber.network

[ericschdt]

It's so comfortable to have a list of well known public MUCs like in Conversations to choose from, that I really miss having feature in Converse.js :)

You may also go to the website, but 1) you have to know about it, 2) it's still at least 5 clicks more. ;)

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[PawBud]

It's so comfortable to have a list of well known public MUCs like in Conversations to choose from, that I really miss having feature in Converse.js :)

You may also go to the website, but 1) you have to know about it, 2) it's still at least 5 clicks more. ;)

Can you post a screenshot if possible? I believe the app is only for android.

[deleolajide]

This feature request has also been mention here

[PawBud]

This feature request has also been mention here

Thanks for bringing it to my attention, I believe @Echolon can decide which issue to close

[Echolon]

@PawBud happy to support your preparations!

[PawBud]

@PawBud happy to support your preparations!

Thanks, btw, I believe the HTTP API shall suffice, let me try to implement it.

[PawBud]

@Echolon

I feel like its ok for the menu to be displayed when the show popular public groupchats button is clicked in the same muc-list dialog, also yeah ignore the styling for now

[jcbrand]

@PawBud: Thanks for looking into this. I think search.jabber.network should be used to provide autocomplete suggestions when you join a MUC via the add-chatroom modal, not via a button in the list-chatrooms modal that you show above.

Converse has a component converse-autocomplete that can be used to create inputs with auto-complete suggestions.

See here:

converse.js/src/shared/autocomplete/component.js

Line 7 in 7cb8663

export default class AutoCompleteComponent extends CustomElement {

You pass it a getAutoCompleteList function which returns the autocomplete suggestions.

Here's an example of where the converse-autocomplete component is being used:

converse.js/src/plugins/muc-views/templates/ad-hoc.js

Line 22 in 7cb8663

<converse-autocomplete

The goal for this ticket would be to replace the input in the add-modal template, with a converse-autocomplete component.

converse.js/src/plugins/muc-views/templates/add-muc.js

Line 37 in 7cb8663

<input type="text" required="required" name="chatroom" class="form-control roomjid-input" placeholder="${o.chatroom_placeholder}"/>

[jcbrand]

@PawBud Can you please include a screenshot here of what the feature looks like?

[Echolon]

@jcbrand even this might be a different task: But showing a list of MUCs, maybe with its topic, might be a nice thing. Conversation does it, too.

[PawBud]

@PawBud Can you please include a screenshot here of what the feature looks like?

something like this?

[jcbrand]

Looks like the suggestions are cut off? Perhaps a CSS z-index bug?

[licaon-kter]

So this has been implemented, right? 320f11f

Nice, but what I didn't see was a dialogue that informs me that

Channel discovery uses a third party service called search.jabber.network.

Using this feature will transmit your IP address and search terms to that service. See their Privacy Policy for more information.

...or something like that :)

[jcbrand]

Where would you expect to see that?

[jcbrand]

I guess it could go into the About modal for Converse.

[licaon-kter]

Before accessing these external services, of course.

That text is from Conversations, which opens a dialogue that I can cancel if I don't agree.

I guess it could go into the About modal for Converse

So my only choice is either accept s.j.n terms or NOT use Converse? Rather limiting and odd...

[jcbrand]

The query to search.jabber.network is made via XMPP, not HTTP, so your IP address isn't leaked to it.

[licaon-kter]

Oh, right, saw the console output but did not connect the dots. Then sorry for the noise.