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Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js

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Re: Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js

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Post by JangoSteve »

Someone seems to have broken the demo by typing in some JavaScript. Doesn't seem to be sanitizing input completely.

EDIT: Looks like it's CSS, not JS. In case it helps, here's what I'm seeing [1], and here's the code from the message:

    * { float: left; display: block }
[1] http://imgur.com/BoZ6lrF

EDIT 2: Yup, style tags don't seem to be escaped. Tried changing colors of the room a few times, and it worked:

    * { color: green; }
EDIT 3: Issue filed here: https://github.com/HashNuke/mogo-chat/issues/2

Re: Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js

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Post by hunvreus »

There are tons of free apps, with contenders like Kandan (https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan) if you're looking for a self-hosted or free alternative to HipChat/Campfire, you can even find sexy-ish Web clients for IRC (https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway).

The problem I see with message apps is that it's like email; you really wished you could host it yourself and fine tune things (as well as make sure nobody is eavesdropping). But you can't have it down or (worse) performing at half capacity. It needs to be up all the time with almost perfect quality.

Sure you can set something up yourself, but you'll probably struggle with maintaining a decent QoS, and if your team is any good, they probably won't allow that to go on very long.

Re: Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js

#14

Post by welterde »

jvehent wrote: post #6

This is cool, and as a heavy IRC user, I'm eager to find a solution that can replace self-hosted IRSSI+ZNC entirely, without compromising security. Don't reinvent the protocol, reinvent the UI.

Why irssi+znc? Why not just run irssi on the box you run znc on (inside screen or tmux)?

Re: Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js

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Post by xt »

hunvreus wrote: post #13

There are tons of free apps, with contenders like Kandan ( https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan ) if you're looking for a self-hosted or free alternative to HipChat/Campfire, you can even find sexy-ish Web clients for IRC ( https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway ). The problem I see with message apps is that it's like email; you really wished you could host it yourself and fine tune things (as well as make sure nobod…

And also sexy web frontends for existing IRC client WeeChat: http://cormier.github.io/glowing-bear/

Source: http://cormier.github.io/glowing-bear/

Re: Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js

#17

Post by michaelmior »

SingAlong wrote: post #10
michaelmior wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps. Although I just tried a fresh install on my own Heroku instance, and the default password is not working there either.

Works fine from here. I just tested by deploying an app. Make sure the last command is run when you copy-paste the commands. That is what creates the admin user and the sample room. admin@example.com and password is "password". Also, I've now disabled editing the account details on the demo app (the password was being changed frequently). So it should be fine from now on.

I did follow all the instructions, and was told the admin user was created successfully, but it will not let me log in. The demo is working now though, so thanks for that :)

Re: Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js

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Post by edcrfv »

hunvreus wrote: post #13

There are tons of free apps, with contenders like Kandan ( https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan ) if you're looking for a self-hosted or free alternative to HipChat/Campfire, you can even find sexy-ish Web clients for IRC ( https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway ). The problem I see with message apps is that it's like email; you really wished you could host it yourself and fine tune things (as well as make sure nobod…

Worth noting that SingAlong (the OP), is also a contributor to Kandan - mentioned in their README

Re: Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js

#20

Post by hackerboos »

moron4hire wrote: post #2

It would take 30 minutes to modify the Node.JS and Socket.IO examples into a usable, IRC-like chat server.

I could do that (quicker/better/cheaper) comments are the worst.

Put your money where your mouth is.

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