Group Messages

A Flarum extension that turns private messages into group conversations. It builds on flarum/messages — adding extra people, a name and icon, roles, participant management, read receipts, reactions, replies and quoting — without changing how one-on-one direct messages work.

Features

• Group conversations — start a conversation with two or more other people, give it a name and an emoji icon.

• Participant management — add or remove people, leave a group, and (for the owner) promote or demote moderators.

• Roles — every group has an owner and optional moderators; everyone else is a member. Controls are shown based on your role.

• Reactions — react to any message with an emoji; reactions are grouped with counts.

• Reply — reply to a specific message, with a "replying to" indicator in the composer and an inline reference on the sent message.

• Quote — drop a markdown blockquote of any message into the composer.

• Read receipts — see small avatars of the participants who have read the latest message.

Direct (1-on-1) messages are left completely untouched.

Screenshots

A group conversation — custom name and icon, participant count, message reactions, replies with an inline reference, and per-message actions:

Starting a new group — pick people, give it a name and an emoji icon, write the first message:

Managing a group — rename and re-icon, add or remove people, promote or demote moderators, or leave:

Installation

composer require ernestdefoe/group-messages

This extension requires flarum/messages to be installed and enabled.

Updating

php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear```

## Usage

* Open the **messages** dropdown (envelope icon) and choose **"New group message"** to start a group.
* Inside a group, use the **"…"** menu → **Group settings** to rename it, change its icon, add or remove people, manage moderators, or leave.
* Under each message you'll find the reaction picker, **Reply** and **Quote** actions.

### Permissions

Creating and using groups reuses the existing direct-message permission (`flarum/messages`' "send private messages"). No new permission is added — anyone who can send a DM can start a group.

## Development

```cd js
npm install
npm run build      # or: npm run dev```

After changing PHP or rebuilding JS on a site:

```php flarum assets:publish
php flarum cache:clear```

## Links

* [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/ernestdefoe/group-messages)
* [GitHub](https://github.com/ernestdefoe/group-messages)
* [Report an issue](https://github.com/ernestdefoe/group-messages/issues)

## License

This extension is licensed under the [MIT License](https://github.com/ernestdefoe/group-messages/blob/main/LICENSE.md).

group-messages 2.0.0

Initial release.

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group-messages 2.0.1

First release of Group Messages — group conversations for Flarum, built on flarum/messages.

Features

• Multi-participant group conversations with a custom name and emoji icon
• Participant management: add/remove people, leave, and owner + moderator roles (promote/demote)
• Message reactions (emoji, grouped with counts)
• Reply to a specific message, with a "replying to" indicator and an inline reference
• Quote a message into the composer
• Read receipts ("seen by") on the latest message

Direct 1-on-1 messages are left completely untouched.

Requires flarum/messages.

Install with composer require ernestdefoe/group-messages.

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group-messages 2.0.2

Floxum audit hardening. seenBy N+1 → eager-loaded readStates, leave() wrapped in a transaction, resolve-once memoization, and removed dead code (the js/forum.js shim + a stale locale key). One MEDIUM finding (appending to Dialog::$types at boot) is retained: there is no upstream extender for it and the append is already class_exists-guarded.

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