api/v1/users.js

@@ -87,12 +87,13 @@ app.post("/account/create", [
             username,
             email,
             password: hashedPassword,
-            role: startingRole
+            role: startingRole,
+            color: User.generateColorFromUsername(username)
         });
 
         const userObject = await user.getPublicObject();
 
-        if (config.logAccountCreation) console.log("users: user created", userObject);
+        console.log("[*] [logger] [users] [create] User created", userObject);
     
         res.status(200).json({
             error: false,
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ app.post("/token/create", [
 
         const userObject = await existingUser.getPublicObject();
 
-        if (config.logAccountCreation) console.log("users: token created", userObject);
+        console.log("[*] [logger] [users] [token create] Token created", userObject);
         
         res.status(200).json({
             error: false,

config.js

@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ module.exports = {
         allowAccountCreation: true,
         allowLogin: true,
         allowGatewayConnection: true,
-        // The policy below will make all messages sent over the gateway to be saved in plain text in the database.
+        // The policy below will make all messages sent over the gateway to be in plain text saved to the database.
         // This is experimental and dangerous, and, as such, should generally not be used.
-        allowSavingMessages: true,
+        allowSavingMessages: false,
         perUserMaxGatewayConnections: 4
     },
     /*
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ module.exports = {
     gatewayMaxPayloadBytes: 4096,
     clientFacingPingInterval: 14750,
     bcryptRounds: 10,
-    // displays a message containing the username, role, etc. of a new created user or token (tokens and passwords should be stripped)
-    logAccountCreation: false,
     experiments: {
         voiceSFUTesting: false
     },

models/User.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
     password: String,
     email: String,
     role: String,
+    color: String
 });
 
 userSchema.method("getPublicObject", function() {
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ userSchema.method("getPublicObject", function() {
         username: this.username,
         permissionLevel: config.roleMap[this.role],
         role: this.role,
+        color: this.color,
         _id: this._id
     };
 });
@@ -25,20 +27,51 @@ userSchema.method("getFullObject", function() {
         email: this.email,
         permissionLevel: config.roleMap[this.role],
         role: this.role,
+        color: this.color,
         _id: this._id
     };
 });
 
 const User = mongoose.model("User", userSchema);
 
+// NOTE(hippoz): These are all actually material design colors, taken from https://material-ui.com/customization/color/#playground
+const colors = [
+    "#f44336",
+    "#e91e63",
+    "#9c27b0",
+    "#673ab7",
+    "#3f51b5",
+    "#2196f3",
+    "#03a9f4",
+    "#00bcd4",
+    "#009688",
+    "#4caf50",
+    "#8bc34a",
+    "#cddc39",
+    "#ffeb3b",
+    "#ffc107",
+    "#ff9800",
+    "#ff5722"
+];
+
+User.generateColorFromUsername = function(username) {
+    let sum = 0;
+    for (let i in username) {
+        sum += username.charCodeAt(i);
+    }
+    const colorIndex = sum % colors.length;
+    return colors[colorIndex];
+};
+
 User.findByUsername = async function(username) {
     return await User.findOne({ username }).exec(); 
 };
 
 User.getPulicFields = function(isPartial=false) {
-    if (isPartial)
-        return "username _id";
-    return "username role _id";
+    if (isPartial) {
+        return "username _id color";
+    }
+    return "username role _id color";
 };
 
 module.exports = User;

resources/Docs/DOCS.md

@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ Used mostly for messages.
 | - | - |
 | _id | The id of the user |
 | name | The name of the user |
+| color | A hex color that represents that user |
 
 ## Message author object