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trogus131637yOne of the reasons we haven't built out a private messaging feature is concern over knowing who can contact whom. Unlike FB which has friend connections or Twitter with following connections, devRant doesn't have a social graph that would define who can ping you.
We don't want people to get harassed, so the idea that is currently on the table is a system where you can send a generic message asking another user if they want to start a private message conversation, which that person could accept or ignore (or block). Also thinking some people might want to turn off receiving requests at all, which could be a setting. Some annoying people may be over eager and spam a bunch of users with requests, so we would track ignores, blocks and reports to rein in such unappreciated behavior.
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Teknas22747y@trogus there is a app called whisper which is a anonymous chat platform. Please check how they solved this problem.
I had my own attempt at an anonymous chat app based off firebase & cloud functions. It solves the spam problem in a unique way. If you're interested I can show you the demo. It's not out yet. -
trogus131637y@Teknas cool, I've looked at whisper (and secret and yik yak when those existed) but never explored the chat functionality, I'll have to take a closer look.
If you want to share how you solved this problem, I'm certainly curious. I'm a little paranoid about unfamiliar apk's, but if you sent me a description and/or screenshots of your chat functionality, that would be helpful. My email is tim@hexicallabs.com. Thanks!
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