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I don't have a use for this right now but it looks like a nice and simple solution.

Not that I necessarily think I would need to but is it possible for the webmaster to get logs of the chats?

One of the app authors here. We did this for YC hacks and ran out of time (30 hours). At this point we don't store the chats for anything but we plan on adding that soon. At that point, the admin should be able to search.

Please let us know if we can do anything to improve the app for a possible use case for you.

The only thing I can think of right now would be a way to theme it. Just being able to change the colour of the solid bar would be nice.

Thanks! We will add CSS styling to the configuration options in the DIC variable. Let us know if you think of anything else.

A public chat channel where everybody can write and read would be nice!

Thanks Walkman. That is a good idea. We had thought of group chats and chat rooms but a public "broadcast to all" option is interesting too. Kind of like a default room that everyone is in. Is that what you are saying?

I thought about channels, but the first would be a "public" channel where everybody joins by default and it cannot be deleted.

Makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

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