JonKazama-Hellion
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- Translated project documentation (LEARNING-JOURNEY, CONTRIBUTORS, AI_DISCLOSURE) to English for better accessibility. - Standardized internal code documentation by converting XML-doc blocks to standard comment format. - Cleaned up inline comments and removed redundant versioning metadata across the codebase. - Refactored non-functional text elements to improve readability and maintain a consistent style.
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# Contributors — Hellion Chat
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Hellion Chat is a one-person project on the code side. But without the people on this page, the bug fixes and UX
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improvements that have landed since the early versions would not exist. Every entry here has made the plugin concretely
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better.
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Attribution for the upstream Chat 2 authors (Infi and Anna) is intentionally in [`../NOTICE.md`](../NOTICE.md), not
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here. This file covers contributions to the Hellion Chat side specifically.
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## Development
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### JonKazama (Florian Wathling) — Maintainer
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Hellion Chat is my first FFXIV plugin and my first larger C#/Dalamud project. My professional background is web
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development (Next.js, React, TypeScript, Prisma). Plugin development in an unfamiliar codebase, ImGui, FFXIV game hooks
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and the entire Dalamud stack were new territory.
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Privacy-first defaults, per-channel retention, Auto-Tell-Tabs, pop-out input, ChatColours presets, the Hellion theme
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plus Exo 2 font, and the v1.0.0 standalone cut are the Hellion-specific surface areas I built on top of the Chat 2
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foundation. The learning story behind that is in [`LEARNING-JOURNEY.md`](LEARNING-JOURNEY.md).
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Hellion Chat is part of [Hellion Online Media](https://hellion-media.de).
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## Testers
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A quick note: I do not test this plugin alone. The people listed here reported bugs before they hit more users, raised
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UX problems I had gone blind to, and brought in feature requests that pushed the plugin in directions I would not have
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gone on my own. That is not a given. External testers are worth their time.
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### Carl Beleandis (Carla) — Beta Tester
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Carl has been testing since the bootstrap phase and has shaped both the pop-out mechanics and the theme direction.
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Feedback comes direct and without detours, which is exactly what I need when testing.
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Concrete contributions:
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- **Pop-out discoverability** — pointing out that pop-outs were only reachable via right-click triggered the header
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button and the one-time hint banner in v0.6.1. I knew the right-click path by heart and had stopped seeing that new
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users could not find the feature at all.
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- **/tell pop-out mode** — the request to open /tell tabs directly as a pop-out instead of going through the tab sidebar
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landed in v0.6.1 as an opt-in settings toggle. Bonus: during implementation an old ghost-window bug surfaced (LRU drop
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left pop-out windows as ghosts), which got fixed at the same time.
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- **Theme variants with brightness gradations** — the request for a green family shifted my thinking from "one theme =
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one colour" to "theme families with mood variants". On the [roadmap](ROADMAP.md) for a later cycle.
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### Jin (Jingliu) — Alpha Tester
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Jin is the active tester from day one and pushed the pop-out workflow architecture in a different direction.
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Concrete contributions:
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- **Pop-out tab with input bar** — the suggestion to be able to type in a pop-out (instead of just reading) triggered
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the v0.6.0 pop-out input bar. That was a larger refactor: the input layer from `ChatLogWindow` had to be opened up so
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it could also live in `Popout.cs`, with an independent text buffer and history cursor per pop-out. It dominated the
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cycle because the design had to be clean before any code could happen.
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- **TempTell persistence** — the request for /tell tabs to survive a relog via a pin toggle is on the
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[roadmap](ROADMAP.md) for a later cycle. It touches the tab system architecturally and needs its own design work.
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## Translations
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Hellion-specific UI strings are maintained in `HellionChat/Resources/HellionStrings.<lang>.resx`.
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- **German (DE):** JonKazama (native speaker, primary project language)
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Upstream language files (`Language.<lang>.resx`) are not covered here. They are maintained via the
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[Chat 2 Crowdin project](https://github.com/Infiziert90/ChatTwo); Crowdin translators are listed in the plugin settings
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under **Info → "Chat 2 community translators"**.
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---
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## How to Contribute
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Bug reports, feature requests and feedback are welcome — the best place to reach me is the Hellion Forge Discord:
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[discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR](https://discord.gg/X9V7Kcv5gR). Join and ping me in the Hellion Chat channel.
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For pull requests and contribution guidelines see [`../CONTRIBUTING.md`](../CONTRIBUTING.md), Code of Conduct in
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[`../CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md`](../CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
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