Quick account switching in FluffyChat

FluffyChat 0.41.0 brings support for using multiple accounts and has an early implementation of quickly switching accounts via input bar, which will get better in a future release, but for now, for impatient people, it can be used by enabling it with Element’s (Web/Desktop) /devtools by sending a custom account state event.

Open Element Web with an account where to set quick switching prefix.
In any chatbox enter /devtools and enter
Select “Send account data”
Enter the type as im.fluffychat.account_bundles (WARNING: in case it’s typoed the typoed event cannot be removed without being an server administrator with database access.
Send the following JSON, adjusting where needed (note: the opening and closing brackets {} are added automatically):

{
    "bundles": [
      {
        "name": "Ciblia",
        "priority": 0
      }
    ],
    "prefix": "C"
}

This one is what I set as @Ciblia:matrix.org which is logged in as Ciblia on https://matrix-client.matrix.org (the address was found from https://matrix.org/.well-known/matrix/client)

name: I think it’s a local name that will be used in the future for differentiating accounts in FluffyChat, but I am unsure as of time of typing*
priority: I have no idea what this is either 😅
prefix: what will need to be typed to the input bar in FluffyChat for quick account switching

Start/restart FluffyChat
Type “C message” and the account will be swithed to @Ciblia:matrix.org.

If C is needed to be said in the room without switching sending account, start the message with space e.g. C message and the account switching won’t happen.

Big thank you to FluffyChat contributors who made this feature and Sorunome for initially explaining how to do this so I could attempt to make a more clearer note on how to do it.

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