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Re: Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

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Post by oehpr »

rahpuser wrote: post #10

Now it seems like getferdi.com redirects to https://rambox.app/ .. looking very similar to what ferdi was. Is this like a new version ?

no, ferdi was just a fork of franz, stripping out the monetization stuff. Rambox... I don't know? It hasn't reached much success in HN.

But as a strange coincidence they posted this article 5 days ago: https://rambox.medium.com/how-to-start-with-rambox-and-simpl...

They've never posted a 'getting started' before... https://rambox.medium.com/

Re: Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

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Post by santiagon610 »

roo54 wrote: post #13
dpdbqb wrote: post #11

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Agree. I opened Ferdi this morning and it just flat out refused to function without the cloud services.

Yeah, I was caught off-guard and figured that it was something wrong on my network. It was only once I went to the website that I realized that it was basically the equivalent of someone closing their business doors without clearing out first.

I just grabbed the server image from Docker Hub (https://hub.docker.com/r/getferdi/ferdi-server/tags), but I'm worried that I won't be able to grab the desktop app anymore, thereby rendering it useless, even if I selfhost the backend.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

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Post by mdaniel »

Ha, my r/DataHoarder tendency shines through; my local mirror of the "getferdi" org has up until Mar 21st

    $ git --git-dir=ferdi/.git log -1 origin/develop
    commit e300c01b46ec94fa46c91ce60c548335d5e30fab (origin/develop, origin/HEAD)
    Author: github-actions 
    Date:   Mon Mar 21 00:29:48 2022 +0000

        Update submodules, browserslist data updates and linter fixes [skip ci]

    $ git --git-dir=server/.git log -1 origin/master
    commit 3a3860c65a1a492ff9ab1515731cd0c8e12b30e9 (tag: v1.3.2, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
    Author: kytwb 
    Date:   Mon Mar 14 15:36:34 2022 +0100

        1.3.2

Re: Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

#16

Post by FabianBeiner »

mdaniel wrote: post #15

Ha, my r/DataHoarder tendency shines through; my local mirror of the "getferdi" org has up until Mar 21st $ git --git-dir=ferdi/.git log -1 origin/develop commit e300c01b46ec94fa46c91ce60c548335d5e30fab (origin/develop, origin/HEAD) Author: github-actions Date: Mon Mar 21 00:29:48 2022 +0000 Update submodules, browserslist data updates and linter fixes [skip ci] $ git --git-dir=server/.git log -1 origin/master commit…

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ferdi.mirror/files/v5.8.1/

Re: Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

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Post by rahpuser »

oehpr wrote: post #12
rahpuser wrote: post #10

Now it seems like getferdi.com redirects to https://rambox.app/ .. looking very similar to what ferdi was. Is this like a new version ?

no, ferdi was just a fork of franz, stripping out the monetization stuff. Rambox... I don't know? It hasn't reached much success in HN. But as a strange coincidence they posted this article 5 days ago: https://rambox.medium.com/how-to-start-with-rambox-and-simpl... They've never posted a 'getting started' before... https://rambox.medium.com/

yeah... pretty weird, and if you look at the interface is pretty similar to ferdi/franz... makes me thing if it was a branch move or something.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

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Post by Riuaux »

santiagon610 wrote: post #14
roo54 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. I opened Ferdi this morning and it just flat out refused to function without the cloud services.

Yeah, I was caught off-guard and figured that it was something wrong on my network. It was only once I went to the website that I realized that it was basically the equivalent of someone closing their business doors without clearing out first. I just grabbed the server image from Docker Hub ( https://hub.docker.com/r/getferdi/ferdi-server/tags ), but I'm worried that I won't be able to grab the desktop app anymore, t…

I'll post this "just in case", and hoping something helps.

Someone made a mirror of the docker server: https://hub.docker.com/r/ericreeves/ferdi-server/

Also this is a fork of the fork: https://github.com/pacstah/ferdium

And the WayBackMachine for the github: https://web.archive.org/web/20220313212244/https://github.co...

Some users are saying that you can logout, delete and re-add all the services, then it works again: https://www.reddit.com/r/getferdi/comments/u2swcs/you_can_st...

Finally, you can dnownload Ferdi here and set the server to Franz, it's supposed to work too: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ferdi.mirror/

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