tulip

Experimental Zulip client built with React

Heroku

Feature List

• List of Streams on left panel
• List of Messages in middle panel
• List of Users in right panel
• Draft.js editor in bottom panel
• Unified Search on top panel
• Home, Private Messages, Starred Messages, @-messages and Settings on top panel
• Unified Settings page
• On Private Messages page, left panel to have abbreviated list of users for group chats

Design

• Dark grey left and right panels
• Smooth scrolling
• Emojis, gifs and image uploads as first class features (as important as text!)
• White space!
• Larger click/tap areas
• No pointy cursor on left / right panel :)
• Larger / more visible timestamps
• Time -> moment.js for older timestamps
• Better way to display which stream / thread a message is in
• Better way to set which stream / thread a message is going to go to
• Easier way to subscribe / unsubscribe from streams (without having to go to a settings page)

Nice to haves

• Pulling profile images from RC API
• Some way to go to a user's RC profile

Editor

• draft.js
• markdown
• syntax highlighting
• emojis
• gifs
• mobotron
• frinkiac

Search

• Filter all three panels
• Search stream names (both subscribed and unsubscribed)
• Search user names
• Search messages in all streams, not just subscribed ones

Message Results Priorities

1. Starred messages
2. Private messages
3. Messages in subscribed streams
4. Messages in unsubscribed streams