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

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I've reviewed the code of this project here: http://hackhat.com/p/130/lets-chat-analysis/ Topics: - Code organization; - Deployment; - Migrootions (mongoose migrations); - Templates; - Module loader; - CSS;

You are, perhaps, somewhat overusing various graphical effects on that page. Consider toning it down.

At least for me, reading it was too annoying so I stopped. I realize this makes me superficial but I prefer my reading material to STAND STILL so I can look at it. I feel so old.

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

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post #82
post #81

I've reviewed the code of this project here: http://hackhat.com/p/130/lets-chat-analysis/ Topics: - Code organization; - Deployment; - Migrootions (mongoose migrations); - Templates; - Module loader; - CSS;

You are, perhaps, somewhat overusing various graphical effects on that page. Consider toning it down. At least for me, reading it was too annoying so I stopped. I realize this makes me superficial but I prefer my reading material to STAND STILL so I can look at it. I feel so old.

oh geez. I could not agree more.

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

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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

Indeed very interesting open-source application! I agree IRC integration would be really nice, it's one of my favourite features on Slack, allowing me to communicate with my team mates without changing context when i'm inside a server context.

I wrote a simple how-to to do it for Slack and would be delighted to contribute on this feature for Let's chat!

http://www.pilgrimbreak.com/how-to-access-slack-with-command...

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

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post #82
post #81

I've reviewed the code of this project here: http://hackhat.com/p/130/lets-chat-analysis/ Topics: - Code organization; - Deployment; - Migrootions (mongoose migrations); - Templates; - Module loader; - CSS;

You are, perhaps, somewhat overusing various graphical effects on that page. Consider toning it down. At least for me, reading it was too annoying so I stopped. I realize this makes me superficial but I prefer my reading material to STAND STILL so I can look at it. I feel so old.

You are not alone. When I go to a blog article, I expect to read the blog article, rather than have my reading experience jarringly interrupted every paragraph by an image taking over the entire screen.

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

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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.

Ah, I assume the reason we all get identical avatars is that gravatar api access gets stopped by the corporate proxy. Any chance that's easily configurable? You're probably going to see a lot of corporate use by places who insist on self hosting everything so you might want to consider dealing with avatars yourself.

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

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Possibly. I think it'll be a while before we do any audio/video stuff.

We're actually just two guys with full time jobs and this is our "10% Time" at work, so our time is a little strained.

I'm hoping to get some pull requests from strangers which I've heard are the best kind of pull requests!

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