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Re: Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

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post #12

I literally just came from the Slack site to HN wondering if there was an opensource/selfhosting version of something like Slack. Well I guess that question is answered.

There is also Kandan App. https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan

Is Kandan still actively developed? Doesn't seem like there's been anything new for a couple of years.

Re: Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

#22

Neat. What's the purpose of the "slug" when creating the room? I was expecting it to be the URL slug, such as http://localhost:5000/#!/room/my-room (and quickly noticed hyphens in the slug name caused a validation error...).

It's mainly for XMPP (room slugs are used as the identifiers there).

Also try typing in #ROOMNAME in the textbox! You can link to rooms like that.

Re: Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

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post #11

I just deployed to Heroku with the button and the home page gives me a "Moved temporarily". Later a 503 application error.

Same here. Looks like "TypeError: secret required" from the heroku logs.

Thanks for letting us know about the issue! It's now fixed if you wish to try again :)

Re: Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

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post #10

I was about to say "come on, nothing beats IRC", but then I remembered how I always wanted IRC to have LDAP, XMPP, and a REST API. So... can I connect with my IRC client?

I want it the other way - let's clone all those shiny features and make a pretty, nongeek-friendly client. IRC protocol can be extended to handle all that stuff.

Re: Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

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post #21
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is also Kandan App. https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan

Is Kandan still actively developed? Doesn't seem like there's been anything new for a couple of years.

It may not be as actively developed as something like Node, but people are still submitting PRs and the original author is still making updates.

Re: Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

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post #10

I was about to say "come on, nothing beats IRC", but then I remembered how I always wanted IRC to have LDAP, XMPP, and a REST API. So... can I connect with my IRC client?

If it speaks standard XMPP you can use Bitlbee to connect to it via your IRC client.

Re: Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

#30
This looks great. Thanks for making it open-source. I've tried other self-hosted chat apps, but this one looks promising. IRC integration would be great. :)

When I was experimenting with websockets, I wanted to make a simple chat app that integrates with Github projects. Of course, not nearly as feature rich, but just an experiment to learn.

Source with demo: https://github.com/alfg/chathub-client

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