Show HN: Open-Source Fully Featured Scalable Chat App (FFS Chat)

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Post by thisisjofrank » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

Show HN: Open-Source Fully Featured Scalable Chat App (FFS Chat)
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Re: Show HN: Open-Source Fully Featured Scalable Chat App (FFS Chat)

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Post by yodon » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 3:10 PM UTC

Having spent time this week looking at open source chat packages this is a wonderful surprise.

I realize your focus is on the messaging, auth, Storage, etc., but I'm betting adding a screenshot of the UI to the readme.md would significantly increase adoption of the project.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Fully Featured Scalable Chat App (FFS Chat)

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Post by tlackemann » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 3:37 PM UTC

This uses a proprietary service as the "scalable chat app" part. I can't help but think that calling this an "open-source [..] scalable chat app" is somewhat misleading.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Fully Featured Scalable Chat App (FFS Chat)

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Post by stevenicr » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 10:44 PM UTC

scanned through, looks nicer than I expected. I see nothing about moderating / handling the various abuse things..

I'm always looking for better chat systems, so far matrix (+ element or fluffy or whatever) is the best for my use case / publicly facing chat.

Perhaps a feature comparison with matrix / ffs chat would make it easier to decide to try or not.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Fully Featured Scalable Chat App (FFS Chat)

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Post by thisisjofrank » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 4:31 PM UTC

stevenicr wrote: post #4

scanned through, looks nicer than I expected. I see nothing about moderating / handling the various abuse things.. I'm always looking for better chat systems, so far matrix (+ element or fluffy or whatever) is the best for my use case / publicly facing chat. Perhaps a feature comparison with matrix / ffs chat would make it easier to decide to try or not.

Thats a great idea, we'll definitely get some feature comparisons up.

Re moderation/profanity filtering etc we're definitely planning on bringing that in with future work. I'll get a board of future work up and write up some issues to make it clearer what is planned.

Thank you so much for taking a look!

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Fully Featured Scalable Chat App (FFS Chat)

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Post by thisisjofrank » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

yodon wrote: post #2

Having spent time this week looking at open source chat packages this is a wonderful surprise. I realize your focus is on the messaging, auth, Storage, etc., but I'm betting adding a screenshot of the UI to the readme.md would significantly increase adoption of the project.

Oh this is a great idea, thank you!

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Fully Featured Scalable Chat App (FFS Chat)

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Post by itake » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

yodon wrote: post #2

Having spent time this week looking at open source chat packages this is a wonderful surprise. I realize your focus is on the messaging, auth, Storage, etc., but I'm betting adding a screenshot of the UI to the readme.md would significantly increase adoption of the project.

JW, have you seen any self-hosted anonymous, no registration, e2e encrypted, ephemeral messaging tools? Bonus points for mobile apps that prevent screen caps.

I'd love a Bring-Your-Own-Network with above features that doesn't require SMS, email, etc. registration that "private" apps like Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, etc have to growth hack to mainstream adoption.