Flow overview

[neauoire]

Lexicon

• Handle: A nickname, set upon starting Rotonde, or found in your settings file.
• Domain: Your IP, most likely.
• Instance: An instance of Rotonde.
• Portal: An instance's welcome page.
• Activity: Time based content pulled from an instance.
• Pair: Two instances following each other.
• Seed: An instance being followed.
• Spectator: An instance following another one.

Streams

• Activity-Feed: Public time based content pulled from all following instances.
• Notification-Feed: Private time based content pulled from all following instances.
• Chat-Feed: Real-Time content pulled from all following instances.

Starting Rotonde

If no user setting file is present

• A prompt asks for a handle.

<maeve>   Hello, who are you?
<guest>   Ezekiel
<maeve>   Hello Ezekiel, where are we?
<Ezekiel> The Lobby

• A confirmation spits out hash that can be saved to connect multiple domains together.

If a user setting file is present

The instance prompts you with.

<maeve> Welcome back to The Lobby, Ezekiel.

The Spectators' Notifications-Feed are prompted with.

Ezekiel is in The Lobby.

• The Activity-Feed appears.

The Activity Feed

The activity feed is a time sorted collection of Activities pulle from all spectated instances.

<Neauoire>    Updated the Needle Numbers for @Soranomaru's project.
              10 glyphs where their intersections are equal to their value.
              http://wiki.xxiivv.com/needles
              4minutes ago
<Maxdeviant>  Donkey Kong is a fool to think a tie will earn him respect.
              7minutes ago [+3 ∴2]
<cblgh>       new project: made myself a system for sharing photos from various adventures
              https://photos.cblgh.org
              3hours ago [+14 -3 ! 1]

• Starting an instance is becoming alive in the network.
• The Activity-Feed appears
• It displays Activity from your saved instances.
• It displays also who's alive.
• It displays also who's where, how many people are into which instance.

The Notifications Feed

The notification are silent messages sent between instances.

Ezekiel is alive.
Cblgh has entered xxiivv:The-Lobby

The Chat Feed

Portal

Shown upon entering an instance. Displays above the chat, dictates the color scheme.

              The Lobby, owned by <neauoire>
              135 Spectators 14 Pairs
              A place to trade Diablo II items.
              [Spectate]

Real Time Conversation

<Neauoire>    Do all the things
<Maxdeviant>  Yes
<cblgh>       what even is a shift key

• Entering an instance shows you the instance's following/followers count.
• A description.
• The color theme is dictacted by the instance.
• The option to follow(save the instance in your list of pulled instances).
• Dynamic content set by the user, by default, the Portal-Feed module.
• Being in an instance is like being in a chatroom.
• People can chat within an instance, exchange files, access the instance's modules, interact with the instance's bots.

The User Feed

You can access a user's profile.

              Neauoire  
              Portal: The-Lobby
              Spectates: 15
              Seeds: 53

<Neauoire>    Updated the Needle Numbers for @Soranomaru's project.
              10 glyphs where their intersections are equal to their value.
              http://wiki.xxiivv.com/needles
              4minutes ago [+3]
<Neauoire>    Something else!
              4minutes ago