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Welcome to the fourth post about the development of Matokai. I have spent most of my time this week on implementing Two-Factor Authentication and implementing optimisations so that the application will not slow to a crawl. Two-Factor Authentication I believe it is trivial to have this feature today as the internet remains a dangerous place. On top of recommending our users to use a unique password, I have implemented Two-Factor Authentication to ensure an additional layer of authentication is required....

Hello. It’s time for another Matokai development update. I’ve been a few hours late on writing this post because I’ve been occupied with fixing a bug I’ll explain in a bit. This week is quite exciting as I’ve made quite some progress. So, without any delay - let’s get started. New logo Let’s face it, the old logo looks like it was made in Microsoft Paint in ten minutes (albeit false)....

Welcome, friend. It is time for another post about the development of Matokai. Last week, I haven’t been able to work on the project due to being busy which is why I haven’t posted last week. My apologies! Let’s get started. Updates to Groups I have implemented several features that enchance the Matokai group chatting experience. Previously, it wasn’t possible to leave group chats or kick members from it. That has changed!...

👋 Hello there, friend. It’s been a while hasn’t it? I have worked on implementing a feature I wanted to add to Matokai since the start: Motion Capture. This allows you to call your friends in a new way using your camera without having to show your face! Secondly, I have been reworking how calls are handled and rewrote voice activity detection which you can read more about here. Since I’ve already covered that in great detail, I will not be covering that here....

While implementing voice calls for Matokai, I needed a way to know which user is speaking. WebRTC does not handle this by default so it was time to get creative again ...