Before I get balls deep in this platform (having been a 10yr pro license holder of Dolphin with a community of 25,000 users) we are looking to migrate to Una (currently testing a site instance) and base it mostly around the Jot Messenger which visually looks great.
However, am I right in saying it's possible to message any other user without a friend/contact request? It's possible to message anyone without first having a request to message them approved and no way to block that user from messaging you.
This is more of a totally open chat room with private chats as the main event?
Are there plans to make the chat system more friendly to potential harassment/spam/unwanted messages?
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Hello Joe,
By default, messenger blocks can be added to any page of the site, each page can have its own privacy, thus messenger becomes available only for members who have access to the page.
For example, you may place it on any groups page and thus only group's viewers can have access to the block with conversations.
We will add additional abilities(Alerts) to the messenger to the next version, it will allow to check users before to add them to the talk, thus it will possible to filter users list. Also we will think over special for messenger feature to block annoying users.
Thanks Alexey. I found the membership controls in the blocks but this is only useful if an entire site is, for example, a group or business who are all approved and 'sensible'. Can you imagine this in a membership, but public site... like Facebook... where anyone can send you anything without warning and without any way to accept or reject their messages... and no way to block them. It is unusable for that environment.
The ability to be allowed to only send messages to your own friends list would be a great start.
We already have such kind abilities in tasks for messenger and it will be added to the next version
https://github.com/unaio/jot-client-una/issues/65
also new one
https://github.com/unaio/jot-client-una/issues/66 :)
Yes, I posted it 😂
I thought so too :)
Good idea, we need to think over it, because it should not conflict with other abitlies.
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Hi Joe, so are you balls deep now into Una? 😂 How's that going for you with 25k users?
No, it's not ready for prime time. We are not using it until Jot Messenger works as above.