Our ‘gardenable group chat’ Roomy, which uses atproto as an ID backend and eventually for much more, is once again available for alpha testing:
https://roomy.space/roomy.space
We’ve invariably had some new alpha release available every other month since the start of this year, powering though several refactors:
This is the one. It’s settled.
Far beyond just making an AT-connected chat app, we’ve invested a lot of R&D time into making Roomy local-first, hence the protracted incubation time.
How does ‘local-first’ work for something as innately online as chat? What is the Leaf framework? What’s the business plan?
We’ll provide exhaustive answers to all of this and more in the coming weeks. Right
Known issues
If you’re unable to join a space, or experience any other kind of major glitch, usually the workaround when this happens is to click your profile-avatar in the bottom left to ‘Reset Local Cache’. Give it a few seconds to repopulate your existing spaces, refresh the window, then try again (via the URL to whichever space didn’t work before).
Interface noise: The foundational UI is fairly set, but there’s looots of polish still missing. The most noticeable is that there are various buttons that aren’t supposed to be front end center, like..
- theme selector / dark/light mode will be moved into profile card
- only chat/threads is meant to be in the top toggle, not pages.
- thread/page options (for conversions etc.) will be more hidden