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

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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?)

There are basically two options and they both suck. Either publish one app and distribute the push notification cert (terrible idea) or each hosted site needs it's own cert and thus an Apple account/published app (pain in the ass).

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

#54
post #52

Is there a way to change user avatars? The screenshot has them but I can't find it in 0.3.2. BTW the wiki page for Docker references release/0.3.0, but you don't have that branch naming prefix (release/).

I think they are using Gravatar (https://en.gravatar.com/) to pull them in based on your email as it surprised me for a second when I set it up locally, registered and then my current profile photo was already there.

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

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post #52

Is there a way to change user avatars? The screenshot has them but I can't find it in 0.3.2. BTW the wiki page for Docker references release/0.3.0, but you don't have that branch naming prefix (release/).

Whoops, I forgot to answer your first question. But yes, we are using Gravatar.

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

#56
post #52

Is there a way to change user avatars? The screenshot has them but I can't find it in 0.3.2. BTW the wiki page for Docker references release/0.3.0, but you don't have that branch naming prefix (release/).

I think they are using Gravatar ( https://en.gravatar.com/ ) to pull them in based on your email as it surprised me for a second when I set it up locally, registered and then my current profile photo was already there.

Yup, Let's Chat uses Gravatar!

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

#57

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 `ncat` http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/13460/simple-mult...

(I'll see myself to the door.)

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

#58
post #52

Is there a way to change user avatars? The screenshot has them but I can't find it in 0.3.2. BTW the wiki page for Docker references release/0.3.0, but you don't have that branch naming prefix (release/).

We should add that we are using Gravatar to our Wiki. It's not obvious for people who aren't already using Gravatar what's going on.

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

#59
post #57

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 `ncat` http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/13460/simple-mult... (I'll see myself to the door.)

That's actually really neat!

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

#60
post #50
post #47

This is so so awesome!

Damn. What's wrong with Hacker News today? Everyone is being amazing!

Hah! No for real! Iove this, while ago I worked on something similar based on Rails for a startup, but I left it half way through.

Any plans to provide updates and take it to the next step?

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