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Codychat Utilities

About Codychat Utilities

Codychat Utilities is an extension that adds several tweaks to Codychat Software, supporting Chat Avenue as well as 321Chat. These tweaks enable users to hide messages from guests, low-effort posts, and repeated "copy-paste" spam, as well as change certain aesthetics on the site they are on. Additional tweaks for moderators allow them to quickly action users and relay appropriate evidence.

Codychat Utilities is excellent when you love going to a specific chat room, but moderators aren't online, as Codychat Utilities can hide any harmful content you don't want to see, as well as prevent targeted harassment and predator tactics when these methods can be detected.

Many settings are useful for altering chat regularly, especially when guest accounts are available, and guest users have to tolerate "reset" ignores, themes, and other settings. This is even more helpful to users of chat sites that regularly reset certain settings, like ignores. Persistence is a feature in Codychat Utilities already, allowing users to automatically disable main-chat notifications. More similar features are planned.

About Us

We are a small team of developers who write code that we believe helps people. This code is usually free and open source, and we never include intrusive advertisements. We keep data collection to a bare minimum, and we defend your right to privacy, like little ninjas on Twitter.

We make our profit off of donations, which are used to pay our staff, server hosting costs, and bills from subscriptions required to run the company. We are a registered Indiana Limited Liability Company. We are not Nonprofit, but we do see ourselves as "Not For Profit" in the respect that we do not aim to have controlling shareholders. All investments are treated as donations and do not have any limitations or stipulations. If you are not a fan of our donation system and would prefer something more tangible, we would absolutely love it if you could purchase items from eridiusgroup.com/shop - we have mugs, pins, and shirts there with fun characters made by members of Eridius.

Our Team

Our Primary Team Lead is "Eri", who is commonly known as "TheEridianNinja". They primarily write code for Eridius and help manage all the teams that make up Eridius. Graphics are done by "Astrum", our Design Team Lead, as well as "Soap". Marketing and Media are handled by "Shelter", which also dabbles in Design.

Backstory

Eri, our Primary Team Lead, has used Codychat-based websites for over 6 years. They have been a moderator on both Chat-Avenue's Boys Chat and Gay Chat. With these experiences, they formed a few tools to help moderator teams be more effective, as well as tools to help casual users avoid most of the "noise" that comes from trolls and predators. After the success of both extensions, a lot of feedback, and even more hype, Eri wrote and directed the development of Codychat Utilities, the spiritual successor to both Mod Utils and Codychat Anti-Guest.

Cooperation

Eridius works in-hand with chat room administrators and moderators to help crack down on emerging threats, such as malicious spammers and predators. This collaboration allows us to properly analyze abusive material and better equip moderators who care about their users with the tools needed to quickly and efficiently crack down on bad actors. If you want your chatroom added to our database for white-list access, contact support@eridi.us with the subject "Chat Whitelist". We will see you there!

Updates & Support

Updates to Codychat Utilities are expected for the long term. You can see updates and plans on our social media (@eridiusgroup on X, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and many others - see our website for all socials - it's at the bottom of every page.

If you discover a bug, please email us at support@eridi.us with a description of the bug. In most cases, our developers contact users via support regularly. Our support is 100% AI-Free. Please do not message us on social media, as most of our socials are not directly managed. Our Twitter account, however, is usually managed live, if you insist on using socials.

We are a small team

We are a very small team trying to brainstorm and implement functions regularly - please contact support@eridi.us with any ideas, bug reports, or any other inquiries, including privacy rights or data removal requests. Please don't mind potentially long wait times; our primary developers are usually inquired for all support requests to ensure factual information is given to users.

Privacy

We respect your fundamental right to privacy. Codychat Utilities does not transmit any data over the internet without explicit opt-in, which will inform you of all types of data collected, how they are stored, and where. By default, all Codychat Utilities functions are completely free to use forever, and do not require an internet connection to function (however, we will wonder how you loaded the chat site without internet access!)



New in 1.0.5:
- The engine core was rewritten to handle (even) more modules in the future more efficiently.
- A bug was resolved in 1.0.3 that caused DMs to not appear, this was rolled back in 1.0.4 but is fully fixed in 1.0.5.
- Tweaks are now organized by category.

Recognized Bugs:
- Under some circumstances, older messages won't load after the chat is cleared on settings change or page load. This usually takes a few seconds before loading.

If you found any bugs in 1.0.5 you wish to report, please email support@eridi.us with any information you can provide. We have been reading and responding to emails every day thus far.