Have Chats been turned off on purpose?

[jdaviescoates]

Fair enough.

[robi]

Is it time for an AI co-written plugin to solve this?

[BrutalBirdie]

@robi
If you or someone can? Sure!
But an upstream contrib would be even more awesome.
Since I believe this is a feature everyone should want.

[baris]

it is possible to restrict chats so only users you follow can message you.

[BrutalBirdie]

@baris
But that is not the same tho.
Why should I follow someone, just so that they can chat with me?
If I am not interested in what they normaly post, then I just have to unfollow again later on.
This already feels like a bad UX.

User Story:
As a User of NodeBB, I would like to either fully enable or disable the private chat for me personally or have an allow-list and/or deny-list of users who are allowed/denied to chat with me.
This way I don't have to hijack another feature just for the sake of enabling another.

I hope what I write makes some sense

[baris]

@BrutalBirdie https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13359, I think it makes sense. Will try to get it in for 4.3.0

[BrutalBirdie]

@baris oh!
I did not expect this to get tracktion that fast.
A very welcome supprise
Thanks for your awesome work!

[baris]

This is released as part of 4.3.0 https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18788/nodebb-v4.3.0-remote-categories-are-a-go

[BrutalBirdie]

@baris Awesome!

[joseph]

@baris thanks !

chat is re-enabled now. For those who don't want it , there is a setting in the profile: