Direct Messages is a simple way of messaging your developer friends and collaborating with them through VSCode.
Follow up on the realtime chat demo videos here and here.
Features
Quickly sign-in through your GitHub account to get started.
The extension fetches all your mutual contacts from GitHub to whom you can message right away.
Know when your friends are online by simply checking their status.
Share screenshots of bugs, features, or anything you wish by pasting the image in the chatbox.
Share code snippets to your most recent conversation in one click.
Create Group DMs (max 5 people) to collaborate and work in sync together on a project.
Customize your notification settings by clicking on the notification icon of respective chats.
Media
A complete gallery of all the working processes of the extension can be found here.
Getting Started
Install the extension from here or search it on the VS Code marketplace.
Once you have it, you'll need to login through GitHub to start messaging.
On completing the authentication, you can click on the Direct Messages icon on the sidebar, and it will load all of your mutual contacts from GitHub.
And that's it. You're now ready to start messaging!
Contributing
This is a beta release of the extension Direct Messages. We, as developers, want to give you the best possible user experience, and thus we encourage you to open issues on our GitHub repository for any bugs, crashes, or anomalous behavior which you face.
