MelanChat is a friendly random chat!
Random
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User profiles start off as auto generated, i.e., name, bio, avatar, etc are picked by 3000
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Users to chat with are suggested by the app - besides skipping suggestions, it is not possible to search or filter potential new chats
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Users may be invited to participate in novel chat experiments or features, similarly to April's Fool Reddit gimmicks
Friendly
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Self moderation by Karma:
fake internet pointsa numeric score of how much a given user is trusted by the community -
Features (e.g., profile visibility, sending audio or pictures, etc) are unlocked by gaining Karma
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Privacy: users may choose to temporarily suspend, delete or restrict their account at any given time
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Zero tolerance for bots, spammers or perverts
A note on naming: melan is short for melancia, the Portuguese word for watermelon. Hence the fruit theming.
Contributing
Pull requests are welcome! We have a spec. Issues correspond to spec items, but feel free to contact me (or just fork the thing) if you wish to help.
See CONTRIBUTING for how to get started and ARCHITECTURE for a high level overview of the project.