The chat where you posted the photo of the typewriter was an experimental chat that Tim BL had up for testing for a while. I don’t think it is running anymore. I’m not aware of any other running and populated chats using Solid software, but I could be wrong. I assume you know about gitter Solid chat which is where most of the Solid chatting I know about goes on.
Hi Jeff and thanks for the explanation! I know about gitter, it is just I was going to have a debate about meaning (and the universe of machine- human- readable data) and it would have been wonderful had it took place somewhere on Solid. I will stay tuned and keep trying the chat thing. Thanks again, have a great day! t
This works for me using Long Chat feature - by default public chats are readable by everyone but write by no one. To change that hover over the long chat name to see the menu and look for the Rainbow icon (4th from right) and click it. You will see a button lower right “Set specific sharing for this folder”, click it.
Important step: Refresh the page and you will see more buckets for setting permissions: Owners, Editors, Posters, Submitters, Viewers. Now drag and drop WebId of person needing write access and pick your privilege bucket. That should do it.
Thanks very much for your answer. What is the formal difference between chats. I know of only one type of chat on Solid. Is the Meeting feature that you refer to as Long chat? thanks!
Long chat is 3rd icon (three black balloons) from left after clicking green “+”. Long chat is not the Meeting feature (5th icon). The (regular) chat is 4th icon which is a single balloon. If someone can point to how to add screenshots in a post, I’ll add some.
I don’t know the formal difference but by observation of the directory contents that result using either - a long chat store each day’s chats in its down folder and file, e.g.
public/long_chat_name/2019/04/26/chat.ttl
Flow participants are tracked in
public/long_chat_name/index.ttl
I think a flow refers to the parties chatting in a long chat and all messages exchanged.
I haven’t worked with (regular) chat yet but looks like all chat messages are stored in one folder and one file. Not sure if and where flow participants are tracked in a regular chat, if at all.
public/regular_chat_name/index.ttl
It appears the intent is for apps that care about wanting look up by date, long chat might be preferred.
With regular chat you will have to read from the POD(s) the entire history before grep’ing by date stamp, which would be inefficient bandwidth-wise as chats accumulate over a long time.
I built my chat app using long chat because of this.
@shingyeung and @jucole - big thanks for your input and even bigger apology for the lag. I am very much into tweaking with this, but rarely find the mind and time space to do it.
Thanks to you I finally created a chat A long chat. I set the ACL settings and now it should be up and running.
Here is the link: https://teodora.solid.community/public/Anothertest/longchattest2019/
I will appreciate if you could send me a few words
Thanks again and have a great day!
about meaning (and the universe of machine- human- readable data) and it would have been wonderful had it took place somewhere on Solid. I will stay tuned and keep trying the chat thing. Thanks again, have a great day! t