What has changed

• I changed the logo (someone on reddit drew it for me, big shoutout to them <3)
• I added a instance field to the Message struct so you can figure out what instance the Message was sent from (that´s useful for texting between instances (you send a Message to your instance, it sends it to your friend´s instance))
• I fixed some bugs, but in its current state, the application won´t compile

What has changed

• I finally fixed a stupid bug by using DER instead of PEM
• I cleaned up a bit and added custom errors using thiserror
• I started implementing Communities and Groups

What has changed

• basically nothing, had multiple problems that I couldn´t fix, so I just used certbot to get the certs
• did some config system fixes for the instance
• wrote some comments/docs

What has changed:

• I made the TUI better and also made one for the instance
• I had multiple mental breakdowns trying to understand TLS
• I started implementing Let´s encrypt certs instead of self-signed ones for usability.

Right now, I cannot show a screenshot of the stuff because it´s not compiling (yet)

What has changed:

• I added more customization options to the messagestorage, it was pretty hard to do that with ratatui
• I wrote some comments in the code
• I found a bug where the font is the same colour as the background, so the font is unreadable. I gotta fix that bug now.

What has changed:

• I continued making the TUI and it now has color schemes, stats and settings. I will continue making the TUI for the instance later.
• I migrated the project to an organization to get luminal.codeberg.page as the domain of the website

What has changed:

• tried implementing a resource monitoring widget on the messagestorage dashboard and failed to do so, so I deleted it again (there were bugs I was unable to fix)

What has changed:

• continued making the TUI to a point where it was usable until I put a bug somewhere in the code. I will have to fix that soon
• updated the messagestorage
• replaced some .unwrap()s

What has changed:

• I started making a TUI using ratatui, focusing on minimalism and simplicity
• fixed some bugs

What has changed:

• I implemented and tested encryption (it still has some minor bugs, but it works)
• I stopped using userids and started using RSA keys for identification since that´s way more efficient

What has changed:

• I lost my mind trying to use the wtransport crate (it will work, trust (cope))
• continued working on the messaging part
• refined the authentication stuff

What has changed:

• created a SQLite database for users and messages
• “offloaded” more code to LCP (Luminal Communication Protocol)
• started making the messaging part

What has changed:

• Made a basic session-based authentication system (harder than I thought) using JWT
• Fixed and created some bugs
• Created unnecessary debug messages before I noticed that the hex decoding fails because I put something like ¨adasdasd¨ into my config instead of a hex string

What changed:

• continued making lcp (took longer as expected because the wtransport crate is poorly documented)
• started making messagestorage use lcp
• everything has become a mess, I gotta clean up next time I work on luminal

Sidenote: I cannot commit to codeberg as I am writing this, they reported that they have an outage. I will push the code when codeberg is back up.

What has changed

Structure

• Started making libs and mods for the separate parts (luminal communication protocol, etc.)
• changed the architecture from: Client <-> Messagestorage <-> Instance to: Messagestorage <- Client <-> Instance

Bugfixes

• Fixed various bugs, but the compiler throws errors right now, so I cannot show a working version in the screenshot.

What changed

• started making a bash-like shell for managing and controlling the instance
• rewrote the config system to use the toml crate instead of config
• fixed multiple bugs
• started making cert verification

smol sidenote: I cannot work as fast as the last weeks right now because I’m on vacation and only have a dual-core ThinkPad with me.

What changed

• added automatic port fetching for better ux
• fixed multiple bugs
• made the code very messy (gonna clean everything up tomorrow)

What changed:

• Took out ml-kem for now because it was causing rust-analyzer to be slow as hell
• Switched to RSA encryption because I was stupid
• fixed many bugs (not running right now - gotta fix that now)

And a small information at the bottom: I am making this project to learn cryptography and get a Framework 12

Things that changed:

• I went back to BiStreams because I was dumb and didn’t realize that what I wanted to do was way easier with BiStreams.
• I started working on the backend, which can receive BiStreams from the selfhost-server as of now.

Things that changed:

Used multiple UniStreams instead of a single BiStream because its easier, made the functions more usable, removed unused dependencies.

Started cleaning up and structuring the project. I also made a basic account system which will need some tuning later.

After trying different protocols for literal hours, I finally settled on WebTransport. Its safer than WebSocket, I believe. I now have to make it send the json instead of “HELLO”.

This is my first devlog of this project. I’ve always wanted to make a chat app since they are one of the most used tools today. Every attempt of making one failed and I was really frustrated. Now, I have motivation to make it and get something for free.