Open project Ideas

[jasminechau2]

Here are some things I thought off after seeing everyone else ideas and stuff I decided I would like to work on:

• The ability to block and delete users.
• Add the ability to chat in a different language
• Liking messages
  I do like to help Guillermo with a notification system. As well as help Veronica with liking/deleting messages and maybe implementing that to also deleting conversations.

[yebrahim]

Sounds great.

How would a notifications system work?

[lealgamb]

Really like these ideas.

[vocatwk]

These sound great!

[jasminechau2]

I was thinking that when the user sends a message it would store an object containing the user's name, the person the user sent a message to and the location of the message. When the message is sent the receiving user would see these notifications in a drop down menu type format and when clicked it takes them to the message and then the notification gets deleted.

[yebrahim]

If we use the new Event entity to store all kinds of events in the datastore, is it enough then to just store a timestamp of the "last seen event" in the User entity? This makes it easy to decide what qualifies as an "unseen event," which is essentially what should show up in a notifications page. Does this work?
@lealgamb and @vocatwk your feedback would be appreciated here too, since you're more familiar with the implementation details.

[lealgamb]

I think the Event entity would be useful in doing this. Alternatively we can keep a counter of the number of seen events, which is essentially the index of the event, but using the timestamp might be more accurate.

I'm wondering how the notification system would work with the activity feed? It might make more sense to just use pagination/infinite scroll for the feed instead of basing it on last seen event if we implement a notification system.

[yebrahim]

For a start, we can have the activity feed only show you events since your last seen event?

[lealgamb]

Okay, I'll do that. If a user isn't logged in then should all of the events be displayed?

[yebrahim]

I might've missed the result of our chat conversation, but I was in favor of making all features require login.
If you guys agree, we don't have to start by doing this to begin with, we can work incrementally toward it.
If you still prefer users to see content without being logged in, then I think they should probably see all events like you said.

[lealgamb]

I'm fine with either one.

[jasminechau2]

I think it hiding everything until login may make it easier to mark which events are seen and unseen

[yebrahim]

@vocatwk does this sound good to you? Should we open an issue to track the work to block signed out users from using the app before signing in?

[vocatwk]

Oops, sorry guys. I had missed this conversation. I'm defintely in favor of requring login for everything.

[yebrahim]

Great. We should probably get that our of the way first so we can proceed with private chats and notifications work. I'll open an issue, any takers?

[yebrahim]

#49

[vocatwk]

Yeah, I can work on it.