Revolutionizing the flow

No longer being developed

Hello everyone, sorry for the delayed notice, however my development and work on chatflow has stopped for quite a while (I've stopped playing minecraft altogether as well), and I would like to let everyone know about that. If you're a developer and are interesting on taking and building up on Chatflow, you can have a look at the source code on github.
Sorry for the delayed notice, and farewell to bukkit (and minecraft!)!

What is Chatflow?

Chatflow is a brand new, powerful, cross server chat plugin. All throughout history mankind has communicated. Communication has driven civilization forward. Without communication we wouldn't have the countries we have today, the communities, the languages, the alliances.... it all revolves around communication. And just like countries for various reasons don't want to join with each other... what if you're partnering with another server to refer players to each other but don't want to join your two servers together completely? Well then this plugin is for you!

Check us out on our website, here (or to be exact, pluginflow.shortcutminecraft.com ) for our development blog, guides, and features!

What can it do?

With chatflow you can efficiently connect the chat of two servers together. We realize that the chat of two servers combined would probably spam your servers chat a lot, so only messages with a ' ! ' before them (or players with ' !toggle ' on. You can define in the config whether players will have !toggle automatically turned on or not when they join! ) will send messages to the other server. Players on your own server will also be able to tell if a message is cross server, because that message will show up as italic on your server, and will show up in a defined color of your choice (via config) on the other server. (So your own players can realize that you're talking to someone on the other server, or they might be like... huh? Who are you talking to!?) In addition to that, the plugin will also send join and leave messages to connected servers. However if you're not sure if a certain player is on the other server, you can always type ' !list ' to check who's on the other servers!

Not to mention the fact that you can customize things such as your server name (displayed on logins/logouts, and on !list) as well as your short server name (which is an abbreviation of your server name, generally. This is displayed in front of chat messages from other servers), as well as customize the colors of these messages.

Usage

What better way to show you than to take a screenshot of the actual help in game? Please note that this will probably changed with new additions. This can be achieved by typing the command /chatflow
Please note I will be updating and adding more screenshots here!

Planned features

Some planned features:
- Better support for Admin chat/chat channel plugins
- Add the ability to stop incoming messages from another player on a certain server.
- Stop/ban entire servers from connecting their flowchat to your server, or possibly whitelist servers.
- Fully customizable messages
- A notification when the plugin starts up (connecting to another server), and a notification when the plugin is disabled / turned off. (That way a message would be sent to connected servers if by chance your server crashes, stopping players from wondering why the players on the other server are not responding) - A response text when you use !msg
- Customizable colours and whether you want to use italics or not
- Save flowsilenced players in config (At current its reset when the plugin is reloaded, meaning players who are muted, after a restart / reload they can use flowchat again.)

Where can I download it?

You can download ChatFlow through bukkit (recommended, secure!), or through our development build server. Website Download Page

Get it from our website

We are required by bukkit to say this:
Development builds of this project can be acquired at the provided continuous integration server. These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk.
Website Download Page
If you are looking for a servers already running the plugin, please check out the two servers below, for demonstration purposes!
mining.shortcutmining.com and survival.shortcutmining.com - Please note that these servers are not currently connected with Chatflow :( , we're working hard to get some other servers for you to try chatflow on!

ChatFlow uses Metrics (versions 0.4 and above) to send data and statistics about the plugin.
By downloading ChatFlow you agree to using Metrics.

ChatFlow REQUIRES VAULT! Please get vault if you plan on using ChatFlow!

If you have any suggestions or questions, please leave us a comment! My skype is muffinjello , if you want to get in touch with me!