The cutest instant messenger in the [matrix]
Home Page: https://fluffychat.im/
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Other chat apps like Discord, Signal, Element, etc., allow me to copy paste an image in my clipboard and it will start to upload it or allow me to type a caption before finishing the upload. This is really great for quick image searching where the user doesn't need to download the app, open the upload widget, find the file, and then upload the image. All while leaving a potentially unwanted image on the users computer when finished.
If this is a feature and I am experiencing a bug, I am on Nixos Unstable, installing the app as a flatpak from Flathub.
It would be nice to search for messages (or also other events) in a room.
The Matrix protocol even has an API for that: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.4.0#id137
And it seems like the famedlysdk already implements it.
I suggest to do it, like the Element Web-UI already does it:
On iOS, when VoiceOver is on, controls should not immediately gain focus or be activated when touching them. Instead, a frame is put around the item, and VoiceOver speaks it. Only when then double-tapping anywhere on the screen, should the item that has the frame be activated/a tap simulated.
Background: I suspect this is due to something causing the UIAccessibilityTraitSupportsDirectInteraction trait to be set on this element. This is either due to something in the FluffyChat code, or a problem in the way the widget gets translated to the native iOS accessibility information from Flutter. The key is the SupportsDirectInteraction part. This is not appropriate to use as a trait in this control, since VoiceOver provides its own functionality for cursor movement and other editing features. This trait should only be used on very rare occasions, for example the piano keys in GarageBand.
Right now sending a voice message required to press the button and then press send to send it. Why not something like Signal when the user just presses and holds the record button to record the message?
As it is, using the latest version of FluffyChat on F-droid at the time of writing this, it is too hard to quote a message (swice a message to the left side). It would be nice if you could decrease the sensitivity of such a move.
Some elements in the fluffychat UI are stuck in light mode
Turn on dark theme
On Android basic keyboard actions such as Ctrl-V to paste or Tab to change focus don't work across the app. Checked login, conversation search and chat input.
My password manager (Bitwarden) also failed to input credentials, possibly related to this. Pasting using the touch input worked, but not using the keyboard.
Copy some text to clipboard from some other app, press Ctrl-V using the onscreen keyboard (possibly also using external keyboards) in an input. Observe that it does not paste any text, nor do anything.
In the login dialog, try to tab into the next input using the Tab button on the onscreen keyboard. Observe that it inputs a space or tab character instead of focusing the next input.
In other apps and the system launcher and settings the keyboard works as expected.
I think the "Visibility of the chat history" names are too minimal, I can't easily figure out what they mean without opening the ones in element and comparing to what which one likely maps to.
Maybe this variant would work better:
Especially e.g. "Visible for all participants" vs "From joining" is quite confusing IMHO, these seem to not exclude each other so I don't think it's that obvious what they're supposed to mean.
Open "Chat details", click "Visibility of chat history", examine the options list
Using various web-clients for messengers (including Element.io), I am used to play back audio recordings in the browser. For me, this is not the case when using fluffy chat. Audio recordings are downloaded which I then open in VLC Media Player.
FluffyChat:
Compare this to Element.io:
When jumping to a quoted message, the message should be highlighted in some manner, otherwise it gets somewhat confusing to find the message
Example from Element
I'm using the android app via f-droid and was pleasantly surprised that audio messages have been implemented. As an intensive Telegram user, I would request the following enhancements regarding recording.
Note, these are blatantly copied from Telegram's model. They are intuitive and effective. For any familiar with telegram's voice messages, disregard the descriptions below. Anyone who has not used telegram, see below for description.
Personally, I would be happy seeing press to record, release to send, and swipe away to cancel.
If this enhancement will be considered I can supplement with screenshots or recordings.
When you register with a display name with spaces in (or presumably other weird characters) the display name on your account ends up URL encoded.
Open FC, go to register an account, type a display name with spaces in, observe how %20 ends up in the display name of the account.
Deleted messages show up in room list until another message event is received
Send a message to a room or a private message
Delete the message
Message shows as deleted in room list
Close/Restart the app
Message is now visible in the room list
There is currently no Matrix-client with Android Auto support. Android Auto isn't perfect, but communication apps (Signal, Google Messages, WhatsApp) that make use of it are great and easy to use.
Nothing to reproduce.
The settings menu shows a room avatar and display name instead of my global/default avatar and name.
Change your name or avatar in a single room, e.g. using element's /myroomnick
URL Preview from Matrix API to show Image / Metadate of a linked URL.
Example: /_matrix/media/r0/preview_url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmatrix.org&ts=1510610716656 HTTP/1.1
Output
{
"og:title": "Matrix Blog Post",
"og:description": "This is a really cool blog post from matrix.org",
"og:image": "mxc://example.com/ascERGshawAWawugaAcauga",
"og:image:type": "image/png",
"og:image:height": 48,
"og:image:width": 48,
"matrix:image:size": 102400
}
When you select a message for forwarding, you get a list of rooms. Tapping on a room, forwards the message to that room immediately.
The problem is, that this appears to be a "live" room list. Rooms move around when they receive activity. A room may switch position from underneath your finger and you may end up forwarding a message to a room you didn't intend to forward to.
Because of this problem, I've recently forwarded a photo to a public room with lots of members, instead of forwarding it to another Direct Message room (my original intention). I've forwarded hundreds of messages using Fluffychat and only had this happen to me once. While slightly embarrassing in my case, this has the potential to cause serious damage in other cases.
I think that it'd be nice to have:
I think a better overall solution would be to implement forwarding to multiple rooms (#211) together with this.
That is, rendering a static list of rooms with checkboxes next to each one, and potentially a search field above them too ( #194), and then a Forward button in the top-right, and a Cancel button in the top-left or something of that sort.
/issue fluffy
Somewhat related to #12, but to identify rooms that contain unread messages, instead of separating those messages from the rest of the timeline.
Current implementations:
Screenshots:
Allow some form of url scheme to link to a room on the web version of the chat. For example:
https://web.fluffychat.im/#/room/#fluffychat:matrix.org
This would be super convenient for opening particular rooms using urls, for allowing shortcuts to be configured, and for linking from matrix.to
I don't know how difficult this is going to be, but to have the ability to choose your accent colour would be a really great touch. Currently it's purple, but would be cool if there were a couple of additional colours such as a cyan, red. orange etc. Maybe something in the line of Dark Solarized accent colours (https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/)?
Some colours:
Teal
#0C9B8E
Green
#1A8A74
#2AFFBF
Blue
#488406
When sharing an image or similar to fluffychat (android) the screen given should include the search box so you can easily share to not recent rooms.
I have a long list of favorites and scrolling down to see chats from non favorites takes some time and every time I open a chat, the scroll position is reset. It would make it easy of the favorites could be collapsed and expanded like riot/element have.
add many chats as favorites and try opening non favorite chats.
My Archives don't load on Web / Android, it loading endless, but nothing will show on, in a blank Account with 1-5 Chats all seems to work, so I notice the Timeout of reading the API could be the Problem from client side but I'm not sure, any Errors are not appears in Web Console.
Open Archives with many Chats
There is a bit of a problem with joining a room by exact invite path, which is two-fold:
In discover groups, when entering #synapse:matrix.org it will show multiple results. None of them appears to have the public room URL listed, so I am unable to tell which one is the right one. I think either if it's an exact room URL like that the results should only show an exact match, or each result should list the public room URL so I can actually see what even is the one I am looking for. Both would be fine, too.
Past joining, in the room settings there appears to be zero mention of the room URLs in any of the settings listings. It is listed for channels I am an admin in with the option to change it. I think what should happen is that in places where I can't change it, that entry should still be listed as a read-only setting so I can at least see what it is.
Anyway, due to these two things I need to randomly guess what #synapse:matrix.org is from multiple results, and after joining I still can't figure out if I joined the right one since I can't find the public URL anywhere.
Top-left menu > "Discover Groups" > "Search for a chat" > enter "#synapse:matrix.org"
-> 4 results, impossible for me to tell which one is the exact match I am looking for
(like, maybe there is a way but I can't figure it out)
Join any of the 4 results, switch to the chat tab
Top-right three dots menu > "Chat details" > "Settings" ... no entry that tells me what the room's public URL is.
Not sure if there's something similar for iOS, but it'd be amazing to use the image insertion from the Android gif keyboard. Currently it just says "FluffyChat does not support image insertion here".
Place cursor in composer -> Press gif button -> try to send gif
When I set a new homeserver in explore, join a room and go back to explore its reset to matrix.org. I think it would be more user friendly to let it stay at the new homeserver until the person changes it again.
Explorer. Change homeserver. Join a new room from that homeserver. Go back to explore.
While searching on DuckDuckGo I've found that https://web.fluffychat.im has the same content as https://fluffychat.im And the old https://christianpauly.github.io/fluffychat/ is also still online. It's better to minimize the same content on multiple domains because that way search engines can mistake the url it should show (see DuckDuckGo). Best action could be, because the web subdomain is indexed by search engines, is to redirect all subdomain pages to the main url with a 301. And turn the github.io version off.
Hello,
Right at the moment I can only choose one file when sending pictures or other files.
I'd like to send multiple files at once, could you make that possible?
Hello,
Every time when others write in a group while I am absent, I don't know where to start reading. Could you make a marker for unread messages or let the app show the first unread message first?
Share & Forward Messages / Media with multiple Chats.
Be joined to HQ? Not totally sure, but I can't see a way to get rid of it.
Attempting to send an image from the + menu in the composer results in the white spinner screen before the image can be sent if app lock is enabled.
Note: Due to #308 this is preventing me from using the in-app send image function.
Forward UI have to be reset or better searchable in contact list.
I found a bug that lets a person play two audio messages at a time. It ought not do that. Also, I think when it hit the end of the audio file. It should change the pause button back to the play button and reset the slider back to the beginning.
I'm lacking a 'jump to mention' button that when clicked jumps to the unread mentions in order they've been sent
Gifs sent/received play too quickly in Fluffychat.
File plays at the correct speed if:
Opened in same chat/message in Element Web (tested in Version 1.7.16)
Downloaded from Fluffychat and opened/played in Android MPV (build #2020-11-16-release, installed via IzzySoft F-Droid repository [1])
Forwarded to other chat via Fluffychat and opened in Element Web (Version 1.7.16)
Tested on BlackBerry KeyOne running Android 8.1 and Fluffychat version 0.24.0
Fluffychat installed via F-Droid repo, with Google Play Services available
[1] IzzySoft repository information here - could be helpful following through to find MPV build in question
If you close the app with the back button, but leave it in memory (i.e. don't swipe it away) and you get a notification, clicking the notification only opens the app but does not enter the room.
There is a white flash when opening the app, even while using the dark theme. It would be nice to not see that white flash, it is annoying and blinding!
OS: Android 10;
Latest version of fluffy available on F-droid. 0.28.something
I am not quite sure if this feature is available on Android already, but it is a major quality of life feature. It would be nice to see the content of the message in the push notification. If the app is in the foreground, this already works, but if not I just get a generic message.
If you change orientation while taking a picture (start in landscape, return after taking picture in portrait), the image is cancelled.
Kind of amazing how FluffyChat is, IMHO, an order of magnitude better than Riot/Element in terms of UI.
I cannot thank you enough!
ability to interact with the synapse admin API, notably the ability to deactivate accounts on the homeserver
[Name]is typing text goes over the video chat icon. See circle in screenshot 
Request that the web version of Fluffy Chat be ported for KaiOS (feature phone OS, https://developer.kaiostech.com/)
Chat is replaced with a grey screen when a lot of messages are deleted at once, returns back to normal and fetches old history if you send a new message.
Make the other side delete a lot of messages at once, reopen room.
I notice the GIF already works but only sending in uncompressed, compressing with brick the GIF.
The Thumbnail play after opened into the image view first.
On 4K displays fonts in Fluffychat window are too small, almost unreadable. Here are the screenshot of a Fluffychat window near the official desktop Element client:
Please add the possibility to set up the font size.
Run Fluffychat.
A nice Feature will be the voice messages automatically switch to ear mode while holding your phone on your ears. Is nice to have 4 lazy ppl and support the piracy.
One of my favorite/pinned rooms got upgraded. The old one is still pinned next to the new one.
Related: #22
Upgrade a pinned room, I guess?
The automatic certificate renewal failed on my server and I just noticed fluffychat being stuck in the loading cycle without any indication that there is a connection issue.
Failing the connection is the right thing to do, but an indication that the connection failed and maybe when it was last successful would be nice.
Use an expired certificate on the Synapse Server: the "loading bar" that keeps cycling on the top never stops cycling and just keeps going for minutes, indicating that data transfer is progressing, while in reality the connection to the server is failing.
/issue fluffy
Hello,
Every time when I write a message and minimize the app before sending it, it vanishes so I have to write it again. Could you please fix that?
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