You may or may not be aware that a great new feature has been added to Ecency and Hive! Ecency Chat. I have been testing it when it was in beta and was impressed to see this feature come to Ecency and when it was fully released, it has not disappointed.
You may notice the unobtrusive bar at the bottom of the screen when you log in now. You can click it and it gives you the option to register.
From here, you can import your previous account if you had one or create a new one.
To setup a new chat account, you just need to enter a new 8 digit pin and click Create chat account.
With that setup, you are now ready to start some conversations. To do that, you can search for a Hive user that you know and type in their account name. The nice thing about Hive, is that the accounts are with names and not just a wallet address, so finding your friends is easy.
Here you can see that I am searching for my own account.
You can then send some messages directly. Here you can see a short overview of my profile and the message sent. When I checked the message was sent and received very quickly and seemed to work seemlessly.
There is also the option of an extended view to see all your chats and chat with a bigger screen.
The option for a small and large window for chatting is pretty cool.
As with any chat service, an important feature is to add pictures or emoticons. This is of course available and you can share images from your gallery or upload new ones. These are the standard features that you would expect from a chat and Ecency Chat has them.
Backing Up and Saving Your Credentials
An important thing to do is to save your account pin and key somewhere safe for your chat account. This is what keeps your chats secure and private, something we don't have with Whatsapp and co.
If you press the other option, credentials info, you can then enter the pin you set and then see and save your account information.
This means you have the power over your chat account and can control who can view and see your messages. This is far better than you get on Whatsapp or other chats where you have no privacy.
To export, press the download button to export the stats or copy and save them individually.
Summary
Overall it looks a pretty good addition to Ecency and Hive. It gives us the chance to communicate on chain instead of some places like discord. However, I would like to be able to use it with the Ecency App as then it would have much more useability and be more powerful to give you access to your chats on the go and basically everywhere, similar to discord.
I don't see it replacing discord yet for group chats, but it is a great step in this direction and is a great feature that I hope to use more of in the future.
Have you used Ecency Chat yet?
Credits:
Title image created with clipart and images by monsterztudio from Canvapro license.
All screenshots taken from Ecency.com.
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That's awesome! I'm going to have to try it out here today! Thanks for the heads up!
Its a great new feature and works really well so far!
Oh? That's new to me. I have to check it after my shift.
Some great things were dropped in the last update!
Very nice!
New features keep rolling out left and right. Mind-boggling how $HIVE is not a top 10 blockchain (yet). I guess we're just very early.
Yes, with the features and things available, it is a surprise it hasnt taken off more!
Is this a customized Sting Chat or a separate thing developed by Ecency?
I am not sure of the tech behind it, but it is not compatible with the chat on Peakd. It works over Ecency only.
That means it's probably an Ecency-only solution.
Yes, most likely.
No one has send me a message on ecency chat up til now but it seems like a cool feature.
I hope you will enjoy to use it soon.
I hope no AI models send me their photos there like on Instagram haha.
haha yeah Instagram is a nightmare for that!
Thank you for the tutorial Steve. I have not used the function just yet, and maybe will tey it out later today. : )
looks so fun.
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Its a great new feature, it could be very handy to chat with other Hivers! 😀
Wow.... New things are coming up on Ecency- that's why I love to use this frontend. It's easy and it's developing one with each coming day ❣️.
It is the best Dapp on Hive I think. The dev work going on is amazing how quick they bring new things out.
thanks for this useful guide about new feature of Ecency which in my opinion is doing a great and continuous work of improvement and is one of the best front ends of Hive
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Thanks, they are doing a great job to enhance features on Hive.
Cool! Danke sehr für den Setup-Guide. Ich habs noch nicht genutzt aber ist definitiv ein cooles Feature. Obwohl viel Tam-Tam für InLeo gemacht wird, finde ich Ecency derzeit immer noch die beste Frontend. Zuletzt hatte ich ein Post über InLeo erstellt und fand es voller Bugs: die Bilder wurden nicht richtig dargestellt, die Zentrierung des Textes funktionierte nicht richtig, usw.
Ja, ich weiß nicht, was mit InLeo los ist. Viele Veränderungen, aber nicht so viel Stabilität. Ich finde Ecency bringt regelmäßige Updates und ist am zuverlässigsten.
Chat will be added to the app and devs are busy creating many new features for Ecency chat.
It's such a great addition to Ecency. 💪
Thanks for being one of the early testers!
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Yes, it's a great step to enhance Ecency and Hive.
Yes, I'm waiting for you on Chat ... in the next upgrade you should have some kind of warning that someone is contacting you
That's a great feature to be added. Hopefully it can be on the app too.
That would be awesome, so that one can be notified when someone is sending a chat on ecency. !PIZZA
Thanks for the awesome guidance. Many out here needed that.
Thanks, I am hoping it can be helpful for people.
I hadn't heard about this, but I will for sure have to dig into it. I have been using Ecency more and more lately. Especially since the favorites feed stopped working on Peakd.
The Ecency team are making the most regular updates on their Dapp at the moment.
I agree.
wow didn't know about this. guess i will spam your dms now O.O
I tried to message you on Ecency, but you need to register first.
i jjsut sent u a message lol
The chat sure is an amazing feature, though I haven't used it
It looks like a great feature and I am happy to use it more
Haven’t used it yet so thanks for the breakdown. I hear it is supposed to go in the next mobile updates, but don’t quote me on that.
Yes it should be, that would make it really powerful!
Ecency chat is really a cool tool! It is easy to set up and to use
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Thanks, yeah , I really love the new feature.
I’ve been using Ecency chat for about a week or more now but I think a lot of people are still not familiar with it so I have less people to chat with
Hopefully more people will check it out!
That's an amazing feature 😄 I am going to try thanks for sharing guide mate :)
Thanks for checking it out!
This is great news. I didn't know about it. I'll try it out, thanks
Great, it is cool to use once setup.
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