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Product Design for Orbit

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We should create a document to capture what we think Orbit should be as a product. - Purpose / Vision - Target audience - Features - User experience - Each...

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@jbenet and @whyrusleeping took the time to provide some feedback (thank you!) on Orbit UI. Original notes here https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/216#issue-201364268, copied here so that we don't forget. I will process these...

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Make Orbit work on Windows

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Orbit (Electron app) should run on Windows. Ref #158 Ref #144

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Currently the electron build is ~300MB! :O There's various reasons for that, but looking at some of the biggest disk space consumers: libp2p-* ~40MB wrtc 11MB typescript 21MB ipld-resolver 5MB...

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Cache emoji icons

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The emoji pictures are currently downloaded on request and it makes them to "pop in" when they first appear (either in the channel messages or emoji preview). The emojis should...

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Currently the file preview functionality is in client/src/components/File.js (handleClick()). It's getting out of hand and we should refactor the file preview to its own React component.

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Namespace the channels

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At the moment the channels in orbit are plaintext pubsub topic. We should namespace the channels, eg /orbit.chat/. @jbenet's proposal: "namespace the pubsub channels you use under some long hash...

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Orbit currently throws errors seemingly random. "error: socket hung up", "Error: ECONNRESET" are shown in the UI's console (devtools in Electron). These are caused by "too many files open" error...

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We should deploy a bot that says quotes on an interval on #orbit-dev-test channel. This is to make it easier to check connectivity and generally verify that Orbit is working.

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We should deploy cacher bot(s) to the orbit network to make sure the messages are always reachable and persisted in the network. The bot should run on a public IP...

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