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

Post by hhaidar » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:24 PM UTC

cellover wrote: post #84

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

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..…

Post by hhaidar » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

Poiesis wrote: post #87

notsrg wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by rambot » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

reinhardt1053 wrote: post #80

Basically an open-source version of Slack. Nice work! https://slack.com/

Post by scott_karana » Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 5:08 PM UTC

thedufer wrote: post #51

scott_karana wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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).