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

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

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Post by scott_karana »

sinak wrote: post #17

This is really great. Two big missing features preventing us from switching away from Slack are direct messages and mobile push notifications. The latter is hard to do: push is highly centralized, which is really bad for self-hosted/open source software. But DMs are totally doable.

> The latter is hard to do: push is highly centralized, which is really bad for self-hosted/open source software

Why is this the case? I would have thought it's the same in principle whether it's a central Slack server, or a central FooMumble server running Let's Chat.

(Difficulty of implementation might be high, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about?)

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

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Post by eggbrain »

hhaidar wrote: post #21
qznc wrote: 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.

Yep, we still are! I recently got added to the ownership team for Kandan (https://github.com/orgs/kandanapp/people) and I've been trying to respond to every issue / pull request that's been submitted. If there's a feature you are missing, let me know. Our last commit was 22 days ago, and we've added a ton of bug fixes, optimizations, security fixes, and overall tweaks in the past few years. Check us out!

Recently, the thing I've been focusing on lately with the app is bug fixes, small tweaks, and upgrading Rails. There's a lot of feature requests on the backburner, but I want the app to be extremely stable before going a mile wide and an inch deep.

That being said, "Let's Chat" looks like it is a great approach and I look forward to the progress that comes on it. The more open source solutions, the better.

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

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Post by hhaidar »

alfg wrote: post #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

That looks pretty neat.

Also +1 for having a demo!

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

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Post by misiti3780 »

This looks amazing - I recently had to add chat functionality to a web service (self-hosted) and was very much surprised at the crappy options out there. I ended up going with converse.js but the django support was lacking and the whole thing took a lot longer than i thought it was going to take (but then again , it always does)

I might test this out and actually swap them out if it works well.

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

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Post by hhaidar »

misiti3780 wrote: post #35

This looks amazing - I recently had to add chat functionality to a web service (self-hosted) and was very much surprised at the crappy options out there. I ended up going with converse.js but the django support was lacking and the whole thing took a lot longer than i thought it was going to take (but then again , it always does) I might test this out and actually swap them out if it works well.

Damn, I can't tell you how awesome this makes me feel.

Is your service open source or public?

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