I saw a post awhile ago asking about having a chat feature. Im curious to see what people think is the difference between a social stream and a chat. Using a few HTML overrides, some custom CSS and settings from the backend of ES to do things like make ENTER submit the stream content, I've cleaned up the ES social stream to be more minimal and more conducive for a "chat" type interface.

ES social stream is powerful given what you can do with @mentions and #hashtags and sharing rules, etc. Ive recently starting using an app called http://flowdock.com which inspired me to modify the ES social stream to work a bit more like that. I attached a few pictures to illustrate. The basic idea is moving away from this facebook type post page and towards a more live and interactive application. I guess this is more useful for people who want to use easysocial for project/workplace collaboration as opposed to a place to upload photos of kittens or whatever it is people use social media for nowadays:)

I fixed the "share what's new" thing, "es-story" to the bottom of the page. i turned off a lot of the social sharing, likes etc, and I hid the edit/delete option as well as the sharing rules until you hover over one of the rows, then you see those options. Other than that and using basic bootstrap stuff to reposition things into columns and rows, i really didnt change that much.

Aside from those minor structural changes, ES works really well for this kind of setup. I've only just made the mods so I'll have to use it for a bit to see where this falls short. It works well with responsiveness too. Anyway, all this to say, if anyone has any comments or suggestions or if their interested in this kind of layout, perhaps we could get a modified theme into the main repo, wireframe for "chat" instead of "post" kind of thing.