The About tab copy was hand-written in English directly in About.cs,
which left the German users on the upstream Chat 2 wording for the
Hellion-specific blocks. The copy itself also leaned on em-dashes
mid-sentence and on a tone that could read as accusing Chat 2 of
GDPR violations, which was never the intent. This commit moves the
six About-tab sections (Maintainer, Why this fork exists, Built on
Chat 2, License, FFXIV disclaimer, Localization) into HellionStrings
and tightens the wording in both languages.
Tone change is the substantive part. Chat 2's full-history default
is now described as "the right one for most users" rather than a
problem the fork is fixing, and the webinterface removal is framed
as a focus mismatch — Chat 2's webinterface targets remote chat
access from a second device, this fork targets a smaller default
footprint, neither approach is wrong. The personal trigger for the
fork (two million logged messages over two years, mostly /say and
/yell from strangers) stays as it is honest context rather than
criticism.
The same neutralised wording is mirrored in three more places that
described the webinterface removal: the README "Was gegenüber
Chat 2 fehlt" block, the HellionChat.yaml description and changelog,
and the matching repo.json fields. The 0.2.0 changelog no longer
recites the upstream auth-flow internals; "different use case,
substantial rebuild, removed" is enough for users.
Em-dashes were also removed from two body strings that previously
used them as comma replacements (Privacy filter storage-only help
and the retention default description). Heading-level dashes
("Hellion Chat — Welcome", "Export (GDPR Art. 15 — right of
access)") stay because dashes are appropriate as separators in
titles.
The Theme description was already inaccurate — it still talked
about slate-violet tabs and amber highlights even though the brand
sweep moved everything onto Arctic Cyan plus Ember Orange. Updated
to describe the current palette honestly.
The About tab already credits Chat 2 and the maintainers, but it
never said why this fork exists in the first place. New users
discovering Hellion Chat through the Dalamud plugin list could
reasonably read it as a replacement attempt rather than what it is:
a niche alternative for users who care about chat persistence and
data minimisation.
The new "Why this fork exists" block sits between the Maintainer
and the Built-on-Chat-2 sections so the reading order goes from
"who" to "why" to "from what". It states three things plainly:
- Hellion Chat is not trying to replace Chat 2
- The trigger was the maintainer's own database (two years,
two million messages, mostly public-chat from strangers)
- Source is open under the same EUPL-1.2 licence; the upstream
authors are welcome to look, take ideas, ask, or ignore
The tone matches the rest of the About tab — direct, no marketing
voice — and stays in English with the other legal-ish copy so a
single source covers every locale.
README's Stability section gains a "what is missing compared to Chat 2"
block that names the five concrete reasons the upstream webinterface
could not stay (System.Random auth code, bind on all interfaces,
unflagged cookies, SSE stream that bypassed the privacy filter, and
the cumulative hardening cost). The project status list reflects
0.2.0 with Phase 1.5 marked done and the remaining audit follow-ups
queued under Phase 2.
The About tab gets a single-line acknowledgement that the upstream
webinterface is intentionally absent, so users coming from Chat 2 do
not look for it under settings or assume it broke.
The Obsidian project note is updated separately under
Vault/Ideen/Hellion Chat Plugin (ChatTwo Fork).md to record the audit
decision and the six-commit cleanup.
The inherited Translators tree node was rendered under the
upstream `Options_About_Translators` label and could be misread
as "people who translated Hellion Chat". The list is in fact the
Chat 2 community Crowdin contributors and covers the inherited
upstream strings only — the Hellion-specific strings live in
HellionStrings.<lang>.resx and are maintained by the Hellion
Online Media maintainer (currently EN + DE; other locales are
not yet covered).
Add a Localization block right above the tree node that spells
this out, and rename the tree node label to "Chat 2 community
translators (upstream)" so the attribution is unambiguous.
The inherited About tab still pointed at Infi's Discord handle,
the Chat 2 community Discord thread, the Infiziert90/ChatTwo
issue tracker and the chattwo Crowdin project — all upstream
references that don't apply to this fork. Replace them with:
- Discord handle: @j.j_kazama
- GitHub Issues: JonKazama-Hellion/HellionChat
- The Chat 2 community Discord thread is dropped (no equivalent
Hellion community channel yet)
- The chattwo Crowdin link is dropped (we have no separate
Crowdin project; Hellion-specific strings live in the bundled
HellionStrings.<lang>.resx files maintained by hand)
Adds four Hellion-specific blocks below the version line:
Maintainer → Hellion Online Media (Florian Wathling), with the
hellion-media.de website as the contact channel for
any licensing or legal inquiries.
Built on → makes it explicit that Hellion Chat is a fork of
Chat 2 Chat 2 by Infi and Anna; every chat-replacement
feature, IPC integration, rendering and storage
code comes from upstream. Links to the upstream
Infiziert90/ChatTwo repository.
License → EUPL-1.2 with the dual copyright statement
covering the upstream Chat 2 authors and the
Hellion Chat additions.
FFXIV → standard SQUARE ENIX disclaimer naming the plugin
disclaimer as unofficial and fan-made, so anyone reading the
tab knows up front that this is not endorsed by SE.
The original ChatTwo translator credits stay intact below — the
upstream contributors deserve to remain visible in the fork.
- Plugin commands trigger the command helper window now
- Fix auto translation with empty text appearing
- Switch up all dalamud payload usage to ROSS if possible
- Prepare 7.5 changes
- Cleanup
JonKazama-Hellion
Infi
Anna