Experiments In Chat Organization
I started this project in one of my courses during my graduate degree. It is basically just a chat client for the SILC protocol, and eventually for IRC. The unique thing about the client is how it organizes the chat and lets you filter the conversations.
Bombyx probably doesn’t compile against the current SILC libraries, and you’re better off checking out bombyx.sf.net for the last official release. I don’t really work on this project much anymore since I’ve found other interests, but I may get back into the idea soon.
The key features of Bombyx were that it would let you “focus” on people in a group chat situation. This let you easily keep track of multiple conversations in the sometimes rude and chaotic group chat setups like IRC and SILC. Rather than having to sift through tons of noise, you would just click on a user you wanted and Bombyx would pop a focus window open which showed only their part of the conversation. It worked pretty well, but I kept running into problems with ever changing and over complicated SILC libraries, and the fact that I got bored with it.
Feel free to download it and play with it.