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

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Post by ZoF »

hhaidar wrote: post #37
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?

S/he was talking about adding chat to one of his/her sites(or customer's sites) using conversejs[0] which is indeed opensource.

[0]-https://conversejs.org/

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

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Post by DevFactor »

eggbrain wrote: post #32
hhaidar wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,…

eggbrain,

I really like Kanban and I am sad to see it isn't up to rails 4.2 yet. Are you looking for more contributors?

If so, how could I contact you to resolve a few questions so I can get the current repo up and running to work on?

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

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Post by rambot »

Yadi wrote: post #60
hhaidar wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Our actual job is working on SD Elements (http://securitycompass.com/sdelements/). Let's Chat is just a side project, but it's also something we use internally everyday. The features you wish were there we also wish were there, no doubt. Lots of the developers here like working on it. I expect there will be updates from us for the foreseeable future. Hopefully we'll start getting more external pull requests as well.

I doubt we are going to pivot to a free chat client company any time soon.

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

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Post by smhx »

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

For github projects, I've been using http://gitter.im I've found the integration to be awesome and well thought-out.

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

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Post by tracker1 »

hhaidar wrote: post #9
Brendinooo wrote: post #6

Very nice work! And thanks so much for making it open source. Our company is always looking for an open-source solution that would let us move off of Hangouts, and this might just be the vehicle for that someday. XMPP, chat history, @mentions, local hosting, and open source...a great combo. The only major thing that's missing that we'd need is private chat! Hope to see that as a feature someday.

Thanks! Private is pretty much first on our list for the next release. We use hangouts as well and it's definitely a pain point to juggle multiple apps.

Will you be using WebRTC for the chat interface?

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

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Post by misiti3780 »

hhaidar wrote: post #37
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?

the website i had to add it to is closed-source, but as someone below indicated, converse.js is open source. the actual code base of converse.js isnt bad - but no one was responsive on github as of a few months ago - and that was a huge problem

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

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Post by eggbrain »

DevFactor wrote: post #62
eggbrain wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,…

eggbrain, I really like Kanban and I am sad to see it isn't up to rails 4.2 yet. Are you looking for more contributors? If so, how could I contact you to resolve a few questions so I can get the current repo up and running to work on?

Yes, more people contributing to Kandan would be awesome! My email is in my profile, feel free to shoot me a message and I can help you get setup (anyone else reading this message, feel free to do the same as well if you have trouble not getting Kandan working).

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

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Post by alfg »

smhx wrote: post #65
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

For github projects, I've been using http://gitter.im I've found the integration to be awesome and well thought-out.

Oh, definitely. Gitter has been great as a hosted solution!
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