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Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Did anybody try selling a service like this: Your our own instance of Mattermost, Discord, or any well know service like those. We manage it for you on our servers, keep it running and up to date. You have admin access to the web app, not to the server. Pay per seat? You can get a db dump at any time and start it over somewhere else. Basically it's what we get from Slack but we would really own the data. We must trus…

This is the mission of element: https://ems.element.io/get-started?pk_vid=437a8cb738dee05a16...

They host a matrix.org server (Synapse) and a web client frontend (Element) on any domain. If you want to, you can also just host it yourself later.

Element is very good these days!

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you imagine maintenance mode means exactly?

Well we had to shut down, because of traffic we weren't ready for. :D Will probably be up in couple of days. Need to hotfix this.

Don't get me wrong, I understood what that meant. I'm puzzled that the person I was replying to seemed not to.

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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post #41
post #38

Did anybody try selling a service like this: Your our own instance of Mattermost, Discord, or any well know service like those. We manage it for you on our servers, keep it running and up to date. You have admin access to the web app, not to the server. Pay per seat? You can get a db dump at any time and start it over somewhere else. Basically it's what we get from Slack but we would really own the data. We must trus…

This is the mission of element: https://ems.element.io/get-started?pk_vid=437a8cb738dee05a16... They host a matrix.org server (Synapse) and a web client frontend (Element) on any domain. If you want to, you can also just host it yourself later. Element is very good these days!

Thanks. Looking at that registration form it seems that the domain to pick is actually a 3rd level domain, always ending in element.io.

Another requirement of my list would be "Use your own domain". That would increase portability. I didn't think about it.

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this why the entire site is not working? I’m just getting a blank screen once I run it in a JavaScript-enabled environment (without which I get “You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.”).

What do you imagine maintenance mode means exactly?

The term “maintenance mode” specifically implies an orderly disablement. I expect anything it applies to to receive some sort of message as to what’s going on if you try to use it.

Unless otherwise specified, I assume that it will be applying to an app, but not to a marketing website—because these are almost always treated as separate things, and shifting the app into maintenance mode doesn’t take down the marketing site (even if it’s on the same infrastructure).

I expect URLs like https://everch.at and https://everch.at/about to be part of a marketing website, because that’s almost always what they are.

What I observe is that the marketing site part (presuming I’m right about it being marketing site—I still haven’t seen the page) seems to all be there and responding fine, loading its unreasonably large megabytes of JavaScript rather than just serving plain sensible HTML, but that it doesn’t actually render anything. There are no JavaScript errors in the console; the only potential hint is that it’s getting a 503 from wss://everchat-server.herokuapp.com. But is that the cause? It’s not at all normal for a marketing site to break if a WebSocket connection fails. What’s it trying to do? I have no idea. So I give up and ask. :-)

If trying to take down the entire thing, I’d hope for all requests to the website to yield a 503 response with some kind of “Everchat got overloaded, be back in a day or two” simple HTML response.

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well we had to shut down, because of traffic we weren't ready for. :D Will probably be up in couple of days. Need to hotfix this.

Don't get me wrong, I understood what that meant. I'm puzzled that the person I was replying to seemed not to.

I think it's confusing that it only shows a blank page, it could at least show a message with maintenance or something.

It's not like the server is not working, it does indeed return HTML/JS, only that it doesn't do anything.

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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The website doesn't load. I was curious to see it in action. From what is described in the comments it sounds similar to my covid side project https://discoflip.com (not quiet ready yet, but if you had any words of advice it would be great to hear)

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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post #38

Did anybody try selling a service like this: Your our own instance of Mattermost, Discord, or any well know service like those. We manage it for you on our servers, keep it running and up to date. You have admin access to the web app, not to the server. Pay per seat? You can get a db dump at any time and start it over somewhere else. Basically it's what we get from Slack but we would really own the data. We must trus…

Mattermost has their cloud offering now!

It's basically Mattermost in Cloud with everything else remaining same. You don't get raw access to the database, but you can get an effective dump of your data any time.

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