From 29aef6514b1368efc51f738a325ee57c3f2a9a1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Kahn Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 08:46:43 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] docs: update README --- README.md | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d5a5118..3973216 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Open https://chitchatter.im/ and join a room to start chatting with anyone else - Multiple peers per room (limited only by the number of peer connections your browser supports). - Public and private rooms +- Video and audio chatting - Markdown support via [`react-markdown`](https://github.com/remarkjs/react-markdown). - Includes support for syntax highlighting of code. - Conversation backfilling from peers when a new participant joins @@ -37,9 +38,9 @@ Open https://chitchatter.im/ and join a room to start chatting with anyone else ## Anti-features - Messages are never persisted to disk. When you leave a peer room, messages are cleared from memory and cannot be retrieved. -- Chitchatter is an entirely client-side communication app. It uses external general-purpose WebTorrent and STUN/TURN servers as for necessary communication, but there is no Chitchatter API server. +- Chitchatter is an entirely client-side communication app. It uses public WebTorrent servers to establish peer connections and STUN/TURN relay servers when direct peer-to-peer connections cannot be established, but there is no Chitchatter API server. - No analytics, tracking, or telemetry. -- This is a community-driven, unfunded project that makes no money. This is necessary to prevent corporate influence from harming users. +- This is a community-driven and unfunded project that makes no money. The users come first and there are no corporate or financial interests. ## Why another chat app? @@ -89,12 +90,9 @@ Chitchatter is an open source project, so community contributions and support ar This is a non-exhaustive list of things that are in Chitchatter's future: -- Password-protected rooms -- Voice calling -- Video calling +- Screen sharing - File sharing - Indicators for when others are typing -- Transcript backfilling for peers who join a room after there has already been activity See the full ticket backlog [here](https://github.com/users/jeremyckahn/projects/1).