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The plan is to release Qnect in 3 phases: | The plan is to release Qnect in 3 phases: | ||
- | **Phase 1:** The Beta testing phase, at this stage you will be able to pull chat messages from the blockchain but you will not be able not post any messages. All available groups will be presented to you and you'll be able to choose which ones to follow. Chat messages from followed groups will automatically be downloaded and stored locally on your device enabling the much anticipated feature of chat history persistence. If there are any unread messages in a group you will see a badge with the number of new messages on the right side of that group' | + | **Phase 1:** The Beta testing phase, at this stage you will be able to pull chat messages from the blockchain but you will not be able not post any messages. All available groups will be presented to you and you'll be able to choose which ones to follow. Chat messages from followed groups will automatically be downloaded and stored locally on your device enabling the much anticipated feature of chat history persistence. If there are any unread messages in a group you will see a badge with the number of new messages on the right side of that group' |
**Phase 2:** Support for connecting to a node on your own network will be added as well as Qortal account creation, similar to the way that this is done in the Qortal UI. This will open up the possibility to post message, as well as other functionalities such as making payments, group management and name registration, | **Phase 2:** Support for connecting to a node on your own network will be added as well as Qortal account creation, similar to the way that this is done in the Qortal UI. This will open up the possibility to post message, as well as other functionalities such as making payments, group management and name registration, | ||
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+ | ===== Notes From Ido ===== | ||
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+ | I saw some comments about Qnect being centralized that I'd like to address. | ||
+ | Specifically two concerns that were raised in Q-chat: | ||
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+ | The first one being the fact that it is served over a web server. This is only the case for iPhone and Mac users, since publishing to the App store will most likely be a no-go for an app such as this. But if another Qortal dev wants to give it a try once I publish the code they are welcome to do so. For Android, Windows and Linux there will be natively built packages. Those can be installed from file directly to your device. | ||
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+ | Another option could be to install an HTTP server on your system and run the web app from there, I would provide the files that would normally be served by the website and you can just load those onto your local HTTP server, problem solved.I' | ||
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+ | The second reason that Qnect could be called centralized is the fact that it uses our public nodes to make API calls. Within our home network we will (in phase 2) be able to connect to our own node. | ||
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+ | Qnect cycles through the list of all current public nodes when it makes API calls. You'll be able to edit that list, this might come in handy if more public nodes become available, or if some public nodes go offline. | ||
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+ | Since the lite node does not contain the blockchain and fetches data from a list of peers, it could be argued that that is a bit similar to getting the data from public nodes, albeit a lot more random and with a lot more peers to choose from. | ||
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+ | So yes, compared to the UI, Qnect is more centralized, |