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Questions tagged [chat]

Generic term for "Instant Messaging System". It can also represent a discussion that occurs in an Instant Messaging System.

In terms of computing, chat refers to methodologies and applications to enable to transmission and receipt of messages between end users, whether text or media (e.g voice, video), as well as the content of any such communication.

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Mechanism for marking messages "read" in our chat module in our rail's app

We have a chat feature in our rails app where users can talk to each other. This is done using Actioncable, and a basic messages and inboxes schema structure, where: Each unique conversation between 2 participants has its own inbox_id, and all…
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Storing messages in new conversation collections; MongoDB

I'm a student working on a chat application for my internship, where I use socket.io. Right now I am busy thinking of a good way to store the messages send in conversations. As of now I do the following: For each conversation between one user and…
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Implementing private video chat rooms onto a website

I want to implement a private video chat room software onto my website. Like Google Meet without the bells and whistles (just video calling with a shareable private link). I found an open source platform called Daily.co. Should I use this? What…
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How to Develop a flutter chat Application Offline?

I'm trying to develop a flutter application with feature chat offline without internet Bluetooth serial and blue packages have been tried as below: list paired devices successfully. create socket with remote device successfully. connect to that…
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react native flat list re-renders all items with every new item added

i have a smiple chat system that runs with express/socket io and react native with FlatList to render the messages. my problem is that everytime i recieve or send a message , I.E : add a message to the displayed messages , the whole FlatList gets…
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Browser chat application freezing / slowing down

Our system has 3 components Agent side chat application, a server, and players chat. Agents and players connect to the server via a web-socket connection. We have made a chat application for the agents that run on the browser. We have used plain…
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How to handle thousands of messages in a real-time group chat with Firestore?

I need some help with Firestore building a chat app. I've looked at the documentation but I couldn't find the answer I need. I'm building a real-time chat (many-to-many) that must handle thousands of messages, and those messages can also be edited,…
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How to stop autoscroll in a reverse RecyclerView for a Chat application in case of imageLoading from url

I am facing an issue of autoscrolling of chat items when images are being loaded from the url. Currently I am using glide to load the images. Reverse list is working fine for text chats and in images also with normal place holders, but when it comes…
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Best port for chats C#

Is there any best port for chat programs? I'm making chat and I don't know what port should I use.
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How to get information from a client socket and display information on a server?

How do I force the server to receive messages from the client and display the message: "{name} send message: {data}"? For example, a user sends a message to another user, and when a user named John sends the message "Hello Alice, how are you?", The…
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all messages time stamps keep updating to current time when a message is sent

below is my code in flutter, when I send a message all the timestamps for every message update to the current time, how do I ensure the times don't change on any old messages? I have pulled the timestamp out correctly just missing what I am doing…
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how do i use tor proxy with my client/server chat app cpp

I have a client/server app, and I want my client to use tor proxy which I've downloaded from the tor website, and connect over that proxy with my server that has an onion address. I have the code that uses the proxy but the problem is that the…
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Best approach for sending message to multiple connected users by using aws websockets

I am building a chat application similar to Telegram. Let's say 1 million members are in a group and if someone sends a message in that group, everyone should get the message instantly. In my project I am using dynamodb for storing user & message…
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How get data from the client server

How do I force the server to receive messages from the client and display the message "{name} send message: {data}"? For example, a user sends a message to another user, and when a user named John sends the message "Hello Alice, how are you?", The…
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Swift Vapor chatting rooms

I'm not new in Swift, but new in Vapor server side development. I'm trying to make simple chat app, using multiple rooms 1:1 using Sockets. I'm able to make single room for multiple connections, but I'm not getting logic how to make rooms 1:1.…
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