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New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by dromio »

ryangittins wrote: post #29

Funny, I just checked up on the status of this project yesterday! I've been on the lookout for a personal CRM for a long time and have had my eye on Monica for months. It looks really promising but I could not for the life of me get it to run in the Docker container last time I tried. I have a dozen or so other Docker containers running without issue, so I don't think it's my setup. Are people reporting better succes…

I was just trying this beta out with "docker run -p 8080:80 ghcr.io/monicahq/monica-next:main" and ran it without issue.

What problems did you have?

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by PaulHoule »

ryangittins wrote: post #29

Funny, I just checked up on the status of this project yesterday! I've been on the lookout for a personal CRM for a long time and have had my eye on Monica for months. It looks really promising but I could not for the life of me get it to run in the Docker container last time I tried. I have a dozen or so other Docker containers running without issue, so I don't think it's my setup. Are people reporting better succes…

People often resort to containerization when they've lost control of their dependencies. Containerization is only completely effective when you control your dependencies and if you control your dependencies... You don't need the container.

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by bratao »

I genuinely appreciate Monica, and congrats to the team. However, I've been searching for a native Android app and haven't come across a suitable alternative, as the Monica app has been discontinued.

I'm looking for an app that helps me remember significant dates and details about my acquaintances, provides birthday reminders, and allows me to take notes on them. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by robinhood »

zeteo wrote: post #5
blitzar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much do you think it should cost? More or less per month? Or maybe annual? Multi currency support? It is a genuine question.

They should just do what everyone else does and finance themselves by selling your data to the highest bidder! There are lots of advertisers who would pay a fair amount to know this much about your social graph and what you think of them.

Why would we do that? This is not something we want to do. We don't even have tracking. And also, we advocate everywhere that users should host their own instance.

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by sneakerblack »

PaulHoule wrote: post #32
ryangittins wrote: post #29

Funny, I just checked up on the status of this project yesterday! I've been on the lookout for a personal CRM for a long time and have had my eye on Monica for months. It looks really promising but I could not for the life of me get it to run in the Docker container last time I tried. I have a dozen or so other Docker containers running without issue, so I don't think it's my setup. Are people reporting better succes…

People often resort to containerization when they've lost control of their dependencies. Containerization is only completely effective when you control your dependencies and if you control your dependencies... You don't need the container.

I use docker because it's very easy to deploy home-server style. I don't care about dependencies.

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by Mashimo »

unstatusthequo wrote: post #30
Mashimo wrote: post #2

Why does it cost 9 USD per month? (Unless you self host)

Perhaps the author wants to eat and have a beer sometime?

Yes, I get that. It just seems to me that the people who know what a "Personal CSM" is, don't want to self host and have 90 USD/year for a contact management and journal are rather small.

It was a genuine questions from me.

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by Mashimo »

robinhood wrote: post #34
zeteo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They should just do what everyone else does and finance themselves by selling your data to the highest bidder! There are lots of advertisers who would pay a fair amount to know this much about your social graph and what you think of them.

Why would we do that? This is not something we want to do. We don't even have tracking. And also, we advocate everywhere that users should host their own instance.

I think it was a joke.

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by endisneigh »

bratao wrote: post #33

I genuinely appreciate Monica, and congrats to the team. However, I've been searching for a native Android app and haven't come across a suitable alternative, as the Monica app has been discontinued. I'm looking for an app that helps me remember significant dates and details about my acquaintances, provides birthday reminders, and allows me to take notes on them. Does anyone have any recommendations?

At least on iOS you can do all of that with the native contacts app

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by mbreese »

I get the rationale for the new naming, but I find it really funny. It’s not the first personal information software to be named “Chandler”. I’m not going to say the name is cursed, but if you were around for this, you’ll chuckle at the new name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software)

https://www.chandlerproject.org/ (2009)

If you want a great story about a software project, open source, and how to not ship, there is also a really good book about this project called “Dreaming in Code”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming_in_Code

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Post by KMuncie »

robinhood wrote: post #12

Author here. Super happy with this release. It took us 18 months of working on it "side project style". Almost every night and weekends actually. It's a full rewrite of the current project, with its own advantages and disadvantages of a rewrite. I hope people who used it before and didn't like it, will give it another try this time. I hope that current users who love Monica, will love this new version even more.

My wife and I tried to use Monica for many months in the past but had to give up because of the incredibly buggy CardDAV implementation when using iOS. Now that this has come out it seems the issue (https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/6175) was ignored likely because of all this work.

Have improvements been made with this in the new version?

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