• The communication goes «directly over i2p» from client to client, no server is required.[1] Note: The connections to the so-called «seedless» servers were removed from this project ; see : https://github.com/hypnosis-i2p/i2pchat/issues/40 . —hypn.

To make I2P Chat work over your I2P router, you need to enable SAM in your router:

• for java i2p: at configclients page, or
• for i2pd: at [sam] section of i2pd.conf.

When building this, make sure you do not define DEBUGLOGGING. If you do define it, the app will log debug info (which includes all chat messages) to configdir/DebugLog.txt if set DebugLogging to true in General group in the app's configuration. See main.cpp and form_settingsgui.cpp for more details on DEBUGLOGGING. All versions < 0.3.1 are affected by this and are less secure.

Now the development was resumed by Hypnosis-i2p and R4SAS, with a lot more folks as testers & bugs+issues reporters.

11 Feb, 2017:

<Hypnosis> ну я там всё глобально перетусовывать взялся. очень плохой исх.код
<Hypnosis> модифицировать невозможно такой хаос
<Hypnosis> немецкий писатель оригинального и2пчата явно не знал ничего про ооп
<Hypnosis> юниорский код

5 Jan, 2017: Original repo at http://git.repo.i2p/w/I2P-Messenger-QT.git was fully merged here.

Original developer of this messenger went away.

The license of this software is GPLv2.

• Install prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake qt5-default build-essential libqt5multimedia5 qtmultimedia5-dev

• Run qmake for either release:

qmake I2P-Messenger.pro "CONFIG += release"

or for debug:

qmake I2P-Messenger.pro "CONFIG += debug"

• And after that,

make -j NUMBER_OF_PROCESSOR_CORES

or simply

make

• http://echelon.i2p/qti2pmessenger/macos → Mac OS X versions, not tested;
• http://echelon.i2p/qti2pmessenger/ → old eche|on's site for I2P Chat (versions up to 0.2.24);
• https://launchpad.net/~i2p.packages/+archive/ubuntu/i2p/+sourcepub/4824794/+listing-archive-extra → Kill Your TV's PPA (v.0.2.25).
• http://git.repo.i2p/w/I2P-Messenger-QT.git/shortlog → original repo (fully merged into this /i2pchat)

http://forum.i2p/viewtopic.php?t=2474

я два репа на гитхабе создал

• один для антиквариата по части и2п массажника https://github.com/hypnosis-i2p/I2PQtMessengerLegacy ;
• другой для разработки https://github.com/hypnosis-i2p/i2pchat .

[1] http://forum.i2p/viewtopic.php?p=11071#11071