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Candy – a JavaScript-based multi-user XMPP chat client

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Metafilter chat has been using this for a few months: https://chat.metafilter.com/

Add yourself to the list of the users: https://github.com/candy-chat/candy/wiki/Candy-In-The-Wild

if you like to :)

I'm one of the developers. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask :)

Nice job. I see a Jabber server is required. Can other users on that server talk to people in Candy? And vice-versa?

Thanks. Yes and yes. They appear like normal users on the XMPP server, although we didn't implement things like roster etc.

Cool stuff. I think this would be great adapted for customer support live chat.

Well put together demo!

Very cool, but can you implement OTR?

1) what is the point of OTR in a multi-user chatroom?

2) how would you implement that without relying on a central server?

> 1) what is the point of OTR in a multi-user chatroom?

I'd assume that Candy works nicely with single-user chats too.

Secure chat among several parties that trust each other. Doesn't really matter if n=2 or n=5.

As for 2), one trivial solution would be to stimulate "true" multi user chat by simply having n x n regular 2-party chats merged into a single view. Should scale for most reasonable chat room sizes.

Exactly - OTR is capable of securing multi-user conversations (Cryptocat, if you ignore their implementation mistakes).

1) The same as in a two-user chatroom? To hide the conversation content from everyone outside of the chatroom? 2) I heard people work on that, but I don't know any details. Might take a bunch of pairwise exchanges [tedious, but probably okay for small rooms], or moderators may serve as trust/key exchange hubs.

OTR can support XMPP. The client must implement OTR or allow for plugins, hence my original question. http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/OTR

Considering it is javascript based, I could extend it to support it if I truly wanted to.

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