Skip to content

stories.md

Latest commit

 

History

History
68 lines (57 loc) · 4.21 KB

stories.md

File metadata and controls

68 lines (57 loc) · 4.21 KB
Raw

Stories

tinyclient is a full client: I can quit the Slack, Discord, Telegram and Teams apps for a normal day and nobody on the other side can tell. It is a complete participant, not an admin tool or an app platform. The detail, with a check for every story, is in docs/product/:

File Covers
01-persona-scope.md who it is for, table stakes, the cut line
02-people.md friends and contacts, avatars, presence, profiles
03-message-content.md images, files, formatting, reactions, replies, threads, the composer
04-live-signals.md typing, read state, unread and mentions, notifications, send state
05-navigation.md servers and channels, inbox, search, quick switcher, keyboard
06-calls.md what each network's calls need and which are feasible
07-budgets-and-risk.md memory, speed and idle budgets; rules that keep accounts safe
08-sign-in-accounts.md first run, sign-in per network, accounts, settings, packaging

Persona

Justin, and anyone like him: one person, several networks, signed in all day on a machine that is already full. Also the Discord regular (friends list, voice channels), the work-chat employee (Slack or Teams threads and huddles) and the Telegram-first freelancer. They forgive a missing feature. They do not forgive a missed message or one that looks broken.

Rules that every story obeys

  • No network's web UI is embedded. Sign-in is the one place a web page appears, in its own process.
  • chatd never decodes media and never loads a media engine. Bytes go to disk; the socket carries paths. mediad exists only during a call.
  • Lists I own (friends, contacts, DMs) are held whole. Servers and directories are searched or loaded by visible range, never downloaded. Presence is kept in memory for what is on screen.
  • Anything tinyclient cannot draw is one labelled line with a link to that item in the official app. Nothing is blank and nothing is silently dropped.
  • The shell shows a call only after the network confirms the join. A call tinyclient cannot carry opens in the official app.
  • A conversation is read only when the window is active, it is open, and its newest message is on screen. Mute settings made in the official apps are honored.
  • Nothing is automated: no scheduled sends, no friend requests, DMs or joins the user did not make.
  • Whole product idle on four networks: 150 MB. Per-state budgets are in 07-budgets-and-risk.md.

Release order

Discord and Slack first, because they sign in today. Each increment is usable on its own.

  1. Looks real. Avatars and names; inline images, files, links, formatting, mentions, emoji; edits, deletions and reactions shown; scroll back; multi-line composer. I can read a normal conversation without opening the official app.
  2. Everything and everyone. Servers, channels and group DMs; People view with presence; typing; start a DM; Cmd-K; correct unread, mention and mute state; notifications and dock badge, which need tinyclient.app. Several Slack workspaces under one Slack sign-in. I can leave the official app closed all day for text and miss nothing.
  3. Answer in kind. Threads; add reactions; reply, edit, delete; paste and attach; mention completion; emoji picker; search. Nobody can tell which client I am using.
  4. Talk. In mediad, on its own track. Discord voice first (DM calls and voice channels, with its end-to-end encryption), then one share each way; Slack huddles after a spike proves them. I can take a call without launching anything else.
  5. Four networks. Telegram, then Teams chat, to the level of 1 to 3. Telegram 1:1 calls. Teams calls and meetings open in Teams. Work Teams accounts can be blocked by the tenant's own policy; nothing tinyclient does changes that.

Not built yet

The destination is the official clients' features, in a client that stays small and fast. Admin and moderation, app directories and bot UIs, canvases and whiteboards, a video gallery, Teams meetings, a GIF picker, animated stickers, voice recording, commerce, and the networks' own account settings are not built yet. Until each one ships, it opens in the official app. It ships when it passes the budgets in docs/product/07-budgets-and-risk.md.