Instant messaging chat system over TCP.
Written in Rust with tokio-rs. Packet design and handshake inspired partially by Minecraft.

Features

Standalone server
GUI client (using druid UI toolkit) with customizations via config file
TUI client
Encryption
Sending images (via clipboard)
Server management (banning, whitelists, etc)

GUI

Requirements

Because accord's gui client uses druid, it requires gtk on Linux and BSD.
See druid's Readme notes for more information.

Configuration

GUI's theme (and some saved data) can be edited in config.toml file.

On Unix system it's in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/accord-gui/config.toml
On Windows system it's in $LOCALAPPDATA/accord-gui/config.toml

Colors are in hexadecimal format (#rrggbb, #rrggbbaa, #rbg or #rbga).

Images from links

GUI client can automatically try to load an image from a message with a link, however this is a potential security risk (e.g. IP grabbing), so it's disabled by default.
(If you're using a VPN or a proxy, then the risk should be nonexistent and in worst-case scenario it's still less risky than clicking on a random link.)

Short-term goals

Improve GUI experience (sidebar with active users, loading up past messages and more)
Verify that the encryption is secure
Add more features

Long-term goals

Figure out long-term goals

The Stack

Server:
- tokio-rs
- postgres
GUI:
- tokio-rs
- druid

Setting up accord server

Using docker container

Clone docker compose repo

git clone https://github.com/LoipesMas/accord-docker.git
cd accord-docker

Edit config.toml (you probably only want to change operators)
docker compose up -d to run the server in the background

From source

Compile accord-server

git clone https://github.com/LoipesMas/accord.git
cd accord
cargo b -p accord-server --release

Set up postgresql database somewhere.
Refer to postgres instructions for how to do that.
Launch accord-server. It will error something about connecting to the database, but we just need the default config.
Edit the config (probably located in ~/.config/accord-server/config.toml) with correct postgres credentials.
Launch accord-server again, this time it should connect.
Done!
Now clients can connect.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Features, ideas, bug fixes, anything.

Accord

Install / Use

README