SignupHandler sets username to empty string instead of null. This causes getEffectiveName to return the empty string.

Add player change listener, add gateway events, implement responses in client to player updates

• errors are not displayed correctly
• password rules are not displayed
• tokens may not get stored properly

Add an event listener to listen to image pasting
A local message will notify you that you have uploaded an image and provide a base64 url so the user can see a preview
When the message is sent, the server message handler should forward the image string, but it should not be saved to the database.
The message will contain a new field called image

yes.

Create a standardised service for broadcasting messages to a party.
Should take a ChatMessage class and construct a uniform JSON representation of the message.

User friendliness is very important so the user settings page needs some helpful comments

Allow room owner to disable chat

HTML tag characters should be escaped to prevent code execution in the chat

probably a JSON issue

needs to be fixed asap

Tokens should not be stored in a cookie, they should be kept inside the window.localStorage thing

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage

Add OG tags to HTML pages so that Facebook, Discord etc can show rich embeds

When I try to login without valid credentials, a small white text is being displayed to notify me that the credentials are not valid.
I would make that more prominent, it's extremely easy to overlook that text and think "This shit not working"
Maybe redirect them to a site that displays the message or make a pop up that notifies you that you have entered some wrong credentials.
I suspect that you have more occasions where this can happen.
Whenever something like this happens you should use a pop up rather than an almost invisible text

When speaking of a pop up I don't mean window.alert(). There are wonderful ways to make you own pop ups that look waaay better than that ugly ass window.alert()
For example with bootstrap: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/modal/#live-demo
If you think bootstrap is assy and not worthy for your page, then this is a respectable opinion. Bootstrap can suck ass sometime.

Make Navigation buttons for the app. I don't want to be imprisoned into the settings menu

Speaks for itself, hCaptcha is easy to implement but stinky to actually use
reCAPTCHA is a nightmare to implement but much more familiar

Increase 16 character token to a longer character string

System messages may be duplicated (video play/pause)
This should be fixed.

Chat commands should be added using the prefix "/"
Begin with SetVideo command to change the video

Redirects should use an appropriate protocol. Eg local tests use http, deployment uses https

Return nickname and effective name

If I have a buddy to invite to a YTParty lobby I don't want to give them an unhandy code to join but rather a link that connects him automagically to my lobby once he clicks on it.
If he is not registered or logged in, they ofc should do that first but after they log in they should be instantly redirected to the lobby they have been invited to
Make a nice button for it so it instantly gets copied to my clipboard

When the header is clicked, it should redirect the user to the last appropriate home page (index or home)

Use reCaptcha or hCaptcha to verify hoomans
Additionally some work to protect the signup gateway route may need to be done.

The font of the main page is giga ugly, please make it less eye scorching

User settings should allow a user to delete their account

• Change password should ask for current password
• Delete account should ask for current password
• After account deletion, user should be sent back to main menu

Use WSS with HTTPS
Use WS with HTTP

URL parser should accept youtube.com and youtu.be

Add the same prevention strat used for messages to nicknames

Allow users to queue videos
Users may view the video queue
Users may add and remove videos
Users may skip videos

Mom I want to log out but I can't

Add custom emotes to chat, or enlarge emotes when sent in chat

Player script should load YouTube iFrame player and grab the first video to be played
Sync will be handled by a seperate issue

https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference

Clicking titles should take you to the previous menu

Users should be able to send messages and receive them from other users and the system.
If a user sends 2 messages in a row, their username should not be repeated.
Messages should be stored in the DB for the length of the party and then deleted so that they can be automatically reloaded.

resolution, subtitles etc if possible

Provide functionality to add multiple videos to the queue

How am I in the room if it doesn't exist?
Redirect users to the main menu if the room doesn't exist and give them a popup or something that notifies them that the room doesn't exist anymore

If I log into YTParty and then go to the main page again I don't want to log myself in again. I want to land on the home menu.
If I manually go to /home.html my session is still valid so I suppose you just need to check wether I am already logged in or not and redirect to the main menu instead to the login menu

Change message data type to text in database
Set char limit to 800 chars

A chat command to control the room is neat and all but I'd rather paste a link into a textfield to play a video.
Add a textfield and a button to queue a new video

Like with the ChatMessage issue (#2) this system should take in a SystemMessage class and broadcast it to a party
This message type will be used to communicate party events (change video etc)

Switch should match the new solid colour theme instead of the old wireframe theme

Should include:

• Bold
• Italic
• Strikethrough
• Underline
• Cursive
• B i g

An email sending service will be added
Users who sign up will need to provide an email which will be verified
Users who forget their passwords like silly geese will be able to reset them

Allow users to store playlists with videos in, load a playlist into the player