To chat is to talk in a friendly and informal way. A chatroom is a place where two or more users can post messages to talk with each other. A chat service is a service providing two or more users with the ability to communicate.

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Chat Application

I've written a backend for a chat app but I'm not sure, if I'm following all the SOLID principles and if my code is clean enough. IModel interface for my db ...
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Simple IRC Bot in C#

This was a simple IRC bot I threw together a long time ago, found recently, and was curious as to if there were any kind of significant improvements that could made. ...
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Custom TCP protocol concurrent chat server

So the task was to first create a custom TCP protocol (namely ebl0) with certain parameters in its header and a number of methods to use with it (e.g. Login, Create, Join etc.). I'm not listing it ...
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Chat Channel Definition and Registry

This is an excerpt of a part of a (very large) program that I'm writing. This particular section handles the creation and management of chat channels. However, I think that this code is rather ...
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TCP chat room in Python

I have recently started looking into networking with Python. I saw some tutorials about the socket library so I decided to give a "live chat room" idea a go. It works (on Windows, ...
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Simple (base) Twitch IRC bot

I've created the beginnings of a Twitch IRC bot. As of current, it only has one command (!echo), though the infrastructure is (hopefully) there to library this code ...
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Simple chatbot written in Python

I wrote a simple chatbot in Python a while ago, and I'd like to know how it could be improved. Here's the code: ...
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RPG Stack Exchange chat bot

Recently, I made a small bot to simulate an ASCII-based RPG in a chat room. The other users can enter commands (.left, .right, <...
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Jarvis the discord.js chat bot

Just finished creating my first bot using Discord.js for the chat application, Discord. This is my first bot and first javascript program I have ever created. I'm mainly interested in ways I can ...
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SOXXY: a daemon stated IRC client project

This script is basically a proxy service; except it doesn't require an active client connection. In fact it expects the client connection to connect before, and disconnect after every transaction. ...
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Conversational bot architecture

I am currently building a small conversational bot, and I am struggling with the architecture. I use Facebook Messenger combined with Wit.ai's API and a Shopify store API. My rails app is the ...
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Chat server implemented using Java NIO

I am learning Java's NIO and as an exercise, I have implemented a simple chat server. I would like to ask if I am using NIO's features in the correct way. ...
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Primitive Twitch.tv IRC Chat Bot

So currently I have this basic little chat bot that can read commands and can timeout users if their message contains a banned word or phrase. I was wondering how I can improve on this bot to be able ...
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Smoke the SmokeDetector

In Tavern on the Meta, our spam detector is a bot named SmokeDetector. While you can ignore the bot, you can't ignore specific replies to Smokey without ignoring users, so I wrote a UserScript to ...
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Stack Exchange Chat Caret Pathfinder

In The Nineteenth Byte, we have an excessive amount of carets (carrots, if you will) that direct one's attention to another message. For example: Amidst the confusion, I made a userscript that ...
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Terminal Chat Room

Summary I have written a pair of Perl scripts that form a UDP chat room allowing users to send messages over the internet with RSA encryption, making the messages imune to MITM attacks. The scripts ...
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A full-duplex connection to an IRC server

This connection class can be used, through composition, to make IRC clients for different kinds of IRC services. ...
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ImprSimple chat bot written in python

I'd like to know if I can improve the performance of my recent bot, and maybe some design patterns too. So far, it's warning a user if it's using some bad words (which are parsed from ...
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jQuery chat queue

The spec for this has changed a lot and due to time constraints the code developed in a piece meal fashion. The problem that I am trying to solve is to develop a queue of chat requests with a ...
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RFC 2812 message validation regex

In my ongoing quest for an IRC client, I'm working on more stringent validation per RFC 2812. As with everything else I'm doing on this project, I'm trying to implement it all from scratch for the ...
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Badge Oneboxer for Chat.SE

This script makes it possible for badges to onebox in Chat. The install requires Tamper/GreaseMonkey. Click here to install, and it's on GitHub and StackApps! ...
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Somewhat less semi-primitive IRC bot - follow-up

As of now, instead of the previous 4 or 5 out of 10 (relative to my C# programming skill), I'd say I'm a solid 6, and some of that is thanks to the advice I got from the last revision. I realize the ...
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Chat room using GenServer

It seems odd that state must be passed around all the time. Can't State module hold itself, so I could do something like ...
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Userscript for easily replying in Stack Exchange chat

In SE chat, there are two different ways to mention people: A "ping" to just get a user's attention, and a "reply" that points out a specific message by the user. This script makes it so that ...
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BigBrother - A chat room watcher

Originally, this script stemmed from a small script that watched stars and who made them, but a few days after launching, SE patched it so the people behind the stars aren't sent. Regardless, ...
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Server-side of a chat application

I have written a server-side and the client-side of a chat application. I would like to improve it and I am unsure about my server construct and have absolutely no idea if there is a better way to do ...
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Semi-primitive IRC bot serving as learning project

I'd say currently my understanding of C# is within the range of (1Beginner-10Intermediate) a solid 4-5. Thus I am seeking to broaden my understanding of C#; I've started coding an IRC bot to improve. ...
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Simple Python chat

I am working on a simple console chat in Python. I started from this Winforms application, removed all the forms (so that the chat could run on Windows and Linux) and did some refactoring (the "click ...
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Node.js/Socket.io chat application

I would like to know how I can improve this chat application of mine. This has been my side-project for a while. I have made it to support on desktops, tablets and smartphones. GitHub link Online ...
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Node.js and Redis based chat application

I have been worked on creating a chat tool similar to vk.com. Right now I have done a simple chat which requires only authentication via a PHP website and everyone can chat with each other. I used the ...
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IRC logging bot

I've recently been learning Python and decided to write an IRC bot as a good first project. Before now I've only really written scripts. I am using the Python IRC library. The IRC bot joins an IRC ...
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Network chat in Perl

I have written a network chat program as my first major project in Perl. It makes simple use of REGEXP's, modules, sockets, command-line option parsing, and forking and uses these features to produce ...
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Implementing an IRC Bot

This is a (fairly) simple IRC bot. The whole idea of it was similar to Duga, except that it will post to an IRC server instead. The bot takes messages from a SQL table and posts them in the IRC ...
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Network chat app

Applying a lot of unprecedented concepts here, it's a simple chat server capable of handling multiple clients, which are run through JavaFX, and have their individual threads instantiated and handled ...
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First SO chat message in Haskell followup

I have wrote an application which asks for the user id, and returns a link to the first available chat message: Output Enter user id: 322395 Fetching data... http://chat.stackoverflow.com/...
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Lorem ipsum chat bot

I'm a web development student, and I made a chat bot that emulates an SMS app commonly found on smartphones, etc. It responds with random lorem ipsum text. I'm wondering if my functions are too long ...
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Find first SO chat message in Haskell

I have made some simple functions to find the first SO chat message. How can I improve my code? Even if there is a stackoverflow link that will get the job done (I'd be glad to know), I'd like to ...
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GitHub link oneboxer for chat

I've made a userscript that oneboxes links to GitHub repos, issues or pull requests in Chat after seeing the request One-box repositories, issue tickets and such on GitHub in the chat on Meta. It ...
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MEF Execute Plugin Exports in Threads

I am developing a service application that would implement a peer to peer messaging system. I am wondering if my following code is the best approach. It works, but I am naive and it would be nice to ...
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“The 2nd Monitor” chatroom translator

For those who go to The 2nd Monitor chatroom, you already know how bad I am at remembering everything. And, sometimes, the new visitors will wonder what something means. For that, I've developed a ...
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IRC server implementation in Python

People say that the code in my implementation is generally obscure. Can you point me what looks bad? ...
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Another JavaScript Stack Exchange chat bot

I've been inspired by @SirPython's SirAlfred JavaScript chat bot, so I went and made my own. This one is slightly different though, in the fact that it can accept input in a more lenient way. For ...
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The chatbot for The Community Post Pimping Board

I recently wrote a chat bot for a chat room here at Code Review. The chatroom is meant to be a place where people can come and pimp a post. That chat bot is meant to handle a list of subscribed ...
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Private client-server chat

I try to create a private chat with Python but I don't know best practice. It's only for study purpose, I'd like understand the logic behind a simple private chat with socket and the best mode to ...
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Realtime chat service

I am new to Node.js and Socket.io. I implemented a realtime chat service that has a chatroom feature. When the actual product is launched, there will be at least 200 concurrent users with 50 groups of ...
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Simple character-by-character peer-to-peer chat application

I built this simple application to facilitate communication between two or more machines on a local area network. As each client starts up, it broadcasts and receives broadcast packets; allowing for ...
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Using setTimeout to get scrolling chat window to work, but doesn't feel like the ideal solution

My friend and I are working on a bare-bones chat web app, using Angular on the front end. He's using Swampdragon for some of the real-time stuff. My task that I set out to achieve was to get the chat ...
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Multi client chat application

I want this code to be reviewed, please. chatServer.java ...
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Creating chat commands properly with Socket.IO

I am developing a chat program (mountreus-chat and GitHub) in Node.js using Socket.io and my code looks awful. I'm starting to use commands and now it's even worse. Here's a code snippet (you can ...