Improve Kick Support

[Nerixyz]

There are two overall goals with the Kick support:

1. Support the most common features
2. Keep the amount of potential merge conflicts with upstream low

Both are somewhat contradictory. While there is some support for other platforms, it's mostly untested or tailored towards Twitch and the removed IRC support (e.g. the account manager). Another goal is to avoid any connections to Kick if a user doesn't use it (has no channel open and isn't logged in).

These are a few issues/TODOs with Kick support. Some of these are easier than others.

• Usercards always show Twitch user feat(kick): show user info in usercards #353
• Highlights don't work feat(kick): Do message highlights #356
• /mentions doesn't work with Kick feat(kick): Do message highlights #356
• Show moderation events feat(kick): Show moderation events #357
• Show subscription events feat(kick): Handle more events #362
• No badges are shown feat(kick): show Kick badges #354
• No Kick login feat(kick): add Kick accounts and send messages #355
  • Send messages feat(kick): add Kick accounts and send messages #355
  • Ban chatters feat(kick): add moderation actions #368
  • Available emotes don't show fix(kick): Load emotes and show username #361
  • Missing stream info in split header feat(kick): Show stream status #360
• Missing 7TV cosmetics feat(kick): Show 7TV cosmetics #369
• Emote popup doesn't show proper emotes fix: show kick emotes in popup #371
• Clicking on a user with underscores opens the wrong channel (username vs slug)
  This is partially addressed, but there are some channels where the slug contains underscores.
• Username renaming doesn't work
• Open in streamlink doesn't work feat(kick): Add Open in... actions #373
• Open in custom player doesn't work feat(kick): Add Open in... actions #373
• Chat modes don't show up on startup (private API sometimes returns wrong modes)
• Load local channel sub badges (in v2/channels response)
• Log Kick messages
• Quick switcher doesn't handle kick well
• Show prediction events? We don't do this on Twitch either, so not sure how.
• Show Kick live notifications
• Ideally: combine Twitch and Kick in one Channel(View)

In the very far future, that support could be replaced by plugins. But we're not there yet, and users watch Kick.

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Some features are incomplete because we're missing functionality in Kick's API:

• We don't know which emotes are available for a user: https://redirect.github.com/KickEngineering/KickDevDocs/issues/323
• The current authorization flow is unsuitable for us: https://redirect.github.com/KickEngineering/KickDevDocs/issues/111
• We can't get the current user's subscriptions: https://redirect.github.com/KickEngineering/KickDevDocs/issues/19
• Currently, we use the private pusher WebSocket - we should use some official interface: https://redirect.github.com/KickEngineering/KickDevDocs/issues/20
• Currently, we use the private API for the follow-age: https://redirect.github.com/KickEngineering/KickDevDocs/issues/48

[Nerixyz]

I think the Kick support is in a usable state now. I'll probably wait with new features until the next release and only do bugfixes. Still, if you have anything worth adding, feel free to open a PR.

[DrankerCZ]

I have noticed few issues, that I would like to point out regarding kick integration into chatterino in the newest version (Chatterino Nightly 7.5.4)

• you can't reply to messages
• replies to your message don't have highlights and don't ping you
• you can't press tab to auto-complete usernames
• sub emotes aren't showing
• timestamps are showing incorrectly (timezone, or rather summer/winter time issue, probably.. e.g. in twitch chat I see it's 2:00, which is correct, but in kick chat it's showing 1:00)

those are just some of the things I've noticed during my first day of using the new chatterino, but I'm overall glad that I can use it for kick channels xd native kick moderation sucks and this is much better option

[Nerixyz]

I have noticed few issues, that I would like to point out regarding kick integration into chatterino in the newest version (Chatterino Nightly 7.5.4)

Thank you for testing and reporting back!

• you can't reply to messages

This works for me:

The messages were sent from Chatterino. Do you have a different scenario where this doesn't work?

• sub emotes aren't showing

I suppose you mean "sub emotes aren't showing in messages sent from Chatterino". The issue here is that neither do we know which channels you're subscribed to nor which emotes you have access to. We can only wait on https://redirect.github.com/KickEngineering/KickDevDocs/issues/323.

Kick is a bit different from Twitch here. On Kick, we as the client have to add emotes at the appropriate positions. So when you type foo myEmote, then Chatterino has to transform this to foo [emote:1234:myEmote]. To do this, it needs to know which emotes you have available.

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The other issues should be fixed in #381.

[Nerixyz]

The messages were sent from Chatterino. Do you have a different scenario where this doesn't work?

I suppose what you meant was that the messages don't have a reply button. That will be fixed in #382 along with better threading.

[DrankerCZ]

yes, I meant the reply button not existing yet.

As for the sub emotes: they aren't showing in the emotes tab, but I see them in chat when they are sent directly from Kick. But I get your reasoning and wish y'all good luck with the updates and bug fixes!