WhatsDab - Lobby chat on the Schedule I Phone

WhatsDab - text the people in your lobby, from the phone you already carry

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Source · Sideload, the framework this runs on · Build your own phone app

WhatsDab is a chat app on the in-game phone, and it talks to the people actually in your Steam lobby. One

thread per player plus a group thread for everyone, side by side with the conversation.

What you get

• []Contact list and conversation side by side, with a search filter.[/]

  []Unread counts per thread and on the app icon, plus the game's own notification when a message arrives while you are elsewhere.[/]

  []Coloured avatars, day separators, timestamps, a delivery tick, and the sender's name on group messages.[/]

  []A typing indicator, in the conversation and next to the contact in the list.[/]

  []Both orientations. Turn the phone with the game's own rotate keys and it switches to one pane at a time, landing on whichever pane you were reading.[/]

  []Right-click goes back the way it does in the vanilla apps: out of a conversation first, and only from the list does it close the app.[/]

  Any lobby works

  Plain co-op, a lobby a gamemode opened, or one from the main menu. WhatsDab rides the same Steam lobby chat

  the game already uses for its own messages, so there is no server, no port to open, and no other mod

  involved. Side Hustle is not required.

  Everyone who wants to take part needs WhatsDab installed. Players without it are unaffected.

  Privacy

  Conversations live in memory for the session and are never written to disk - a chat log sitting on someone's

  drive is not what people expect from a lobby chat. Leave the lobby and they are gone. The name shown is

  whatever a player already goes by in game, so a mod that renames them for privacy is respected here too.

  Requirements

  • []MelonLoader 0. 7. 3 or newer.[/]

    []Sideload 1. 0. 0 or newer - the framework that renders this app. Install it first; a mod manager pulls it in for you.[/]

    For mod authors

    This is the mod to read if you want to build your own phone app. The entire interface is

    index.html / app.css / app.js, and the C# is one Apps. Register call plus the chat

    itself. It references no Unity assembly, no IL2CPP interop and not even Sideload - only a single-file shim

    that finds the host by reflection. The

    Sideload wiki takes you from an empty

    folder to an icon on the phone in about twenty minutes.

    Built by DooDesch. License: MIT.