Introduction

An experimental chat platform written in ASP.NET and React, testing organic community moderation through a two-tier "voting" currency. The platform is designed to be as transparent as possible through a public transparency log that lists all user moderation actions (i.e mutes).

Features

• Text chat with user-selectable topics
• Moderation through experimental two-tier "voting" currency
• Video and audio chat with PeerJS
• User inventory -- users can gift each other random items

Usage

Requirements

• Docker & docker-compose
• Liquibase

Running

1. (Optional) For better security, change the database password (CHANGETHIS in main docker-compose.yml).
2. Run docker-compose build then docker-compose up to start the application. You may need to create a Docker volume for the database.
3. After the initial startup, the database will not be setup. Switch to the Democrachat/Migrations folder. Set up Liquibase for Postgres. Create a liquibase.properties file. Finally, run liquibase update --changeLogFile=liquibase_changelog.xml.

Now go to http://localhost:8080 This is enough to test the chatting features. To test the experimental moderation features:

1. Finalise a user with any name (e.g. "admin")
2. Run docker exec -it democrachat_postgres_1 psql -U postgres -d democrachat -c "UPDATE account SET gold = 999, silver = 999 WHERE username = 'admin'"

Example liquibase.properties

url: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/democrachat?user=postgres&password=CHANGETHIS

Automated Tests

There are automated integration and unit tests. With the postgres image up, run CUSTOMCONNSTR_Default="Host=localhost;Database=democrachat;Username=postgres;Password=CHANGETHIS;" dotnet test

Replace CHANGETHIS with the database password.