Chat

Datamodel

See Models

Datastore

Firebase Realtime DB

Currently storing in 'chatrooms'

UI

Reactions

    reactions: {
        hot_take: "💥",
        alert: "🚨",
        like: "👍",
        dislike: "👎",
      },

Chat windows

• A new chat for every chase?
• What if people just want to chat all the time?

Acceptable Use Policy

Filtering

• Image filtering with google
• Filter offensive text

Requirements

• Support web and flutter
• Scale to 50k+ users

Possible Recommendations

• Getstream https://getstream.io/
• Roll our own with google rtdb

Getstream

Clients we'll use

• Supports JS https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-js/
• Flutter https://getstream.io/chat/sdk/flutter/

Backend

• Backend (Go) https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-go/

We can write cloud functions using this library that are triggered based on twitter, birds of a feather, or other events, and feed them into chat automatically. This will give us instant activity in our chats.